U.S. Army troop reinforcements arriving at Omaha Beachhead and moving inland, during invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2, in the days immediately following D-Day. (They are moving along a gradual rise overlooking the beach, that appears to be near Colleville Sur Mer, coordinates WN-62.) U.S. LST-281 discharging cargo of Army vehicles, including trucks and halftracks. A DUKW amphibious vehicle driving out of the surf. Sherman M4 tanks with deep wading kits; one named, "Goldie." Troops unload supplies from a beached Rhino Barge. More landing craft approaching the beach. Coast Guardsmen manning antiaircraft guns. Barrage balloons aloft. Antiaircraft guns firing, at night,from the beachhead, at German bombers, overhead.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) activities in Burma during World War II. An airplane in flight overhead. A boy seated on a elephant moving across a field. Other men walking. Men along with a U.S. officer seated outside a hut. The officer reads a newspaper. He talks to a man. The man reads a document for the officer. Soldiers seated on a field. Men on elephants with luggage moving along an area. U.S. soldiers seated along with others.
Home life of British steel worker. The man is gardening. His wife comes out of their house and talks to him. The man and woman enter the house. The man seated with his family at dinner. A photograph of the man's nephew, who is a soldier in Malaya. British soldiers in Malaya line up and receive their pay at a pay window. U.S. airmen, stationed in Britain, receiving their pay in pounds, Sterling. U.S. soldiers shopping in the UK.
Members of a Reconnaissance patrol, of U.S. soldiers, are seen walking slowly through the small French village of Bru (about 3 miles east of the town of Rambervillers) during World War 2. There doesn't seem to be an established road, as such, but a road sign is erected reading "Bru." A large tree stands nearby. Modest dwellings are seen and a power line pole, as well as a very tall power and/or communications tower. Two soldiers read their notes to another, sitting in an M8 armored car, who reports by radio phone. Another soldier also sits in the armored car. Several army vehicles move along an established road, followed by a jeep, backing along the road, closer to the camera. Closeup of the jeep, stopped in the road, as 3 passenger soldiers look over the area (one using binoculars). The driver seems occupied looking down at the road near the rear of the jeep. A Browning M1919 machine gun is mounted in the jeep. Closeup of soldier with binoculars. Several soldiers walk past a parked jeep. Others stand around the M8 armored car. Glimpse of a soldier standing near the "Bru" road sign. View of narrow tree-lined French country road, on which several soldiers sit on parked jeep. Closeup of them riding on the jeep as it backs along the road. (Reportedly, because the road is narrow, tree lined, and soft on the verges, the Recon vehicles drive backwards into the area, so they can escape quickly if necessary.)
USS Enterprise underway at sea in the United States. A U.S. Navy A3J Vigilante makes an arrested landing on the flight deck. An airplane director directs the airplane forward. A U.S. Navy A3J Vigilante approaches in for landing. The airplane touches down and catches a wire. The airplane director directs the airplane forward. Another aircraft lands on the flight deck.
A film on rescue work by the U.S. Coast Guard. A ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean. The bow of the ship. A man and a woman aboard the ship. A man at the controls of the ship. Other boats and ships underway. The woman gets injured. The man at the controls establishes a contact with a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft for help. The aircraft in flight overhead. A man gives a red flare signal to the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over the ship. A man presses a button of a rescue alarm and alerts Coast Guard crew. Coast Guard crew board a helicopter. They inspect the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and is in flight. The helicopter hovers over the ship. A line is dropped from the helicopter to the ship. A stretcher is dropped with the help of the line. A man places the injured woman on the stretcher and she is taken aboard the helicopter. The helicopter in flight. It lands. The woman is taken out from the helicopter and is placed in an ambulance. The ambulance leaves the area. The helicopter in flight overhead.
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