Towing of Phoenix units across English Channel for D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. Tugboat pulls away from Phoenix unit (Mulberry Harbor). Tow line pays out from stern of tug. Phoenix units in the background. Crew of tugboat secures line. Phoenix unit being towed by tugboat.
German invasion of France during the Battle of France in World War II. German army units advance in the Somme department. Horse cavalry, and soldiers in horse carts advance. Artillery bombards French positions. Soldiers fire machine guns across the fields. They take cover in the thick undergrowth. Soldiers push artillery on a road. Wrecked and abandoned Allied tanks and artillery. One knocked out tank with name "Terrible I." A German convoy moves across a bridge over the Canal de la Somme. Aircraft in flight overhead. Many captured French prisoner of war soldiers advance on foot under German guard. German soldiers march in formation with rifles over their shoulders as they enter a French town, while prisoner of war French soldiers standy and watch on the sides of a street. German tanks and other units move through the ruins of Fecamp commune. Soldiers on tanks amidst ruins. Smoke from burning buildings. Artillery units advance. Soldiers amidst rubble and debris. They take cover in a field. A soldier surveys the area with binoculars. They cross hills.
Technician removes recorder unit from access panel of U-2 nose section. Airplane is parked in hangar at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida. Technician places recorder unit in U-2 nose section, then closes the access panel. Airman draws tire from supply unit and keeps it in locker room.
Fidel Castro steps down plane during his arrival for the United Nations 15th General Assembly in New York. Castro's car stopped near a gate to greet a crowd of supporters cheering him. New York police huddle around the car and urge him to proceed on and not stop. Castro arriving by car in Harlem New York after transfer there from another hotel in midtown. Khrushchev meets Castro in the street in Harlem and they hug as police stand by for protection. View of United Nations building. The Cuban and Soviet contingents seen together greeting one another at the assembly hall of the United Nations. Castro goes to the stage to begin delivery of a record speech exceeding four hours. The chair is seen interrupting at one point in the interest of time. Castro addresses delegates. Castro boarding a plane supplied by the Soviet Union for his return to Cuba. Castro on stage surrounded by a crowd in Cuba. View of a lone Cuban farmer sweating as he works in the sun on a farm field.
Flanders Hitler Youth units and Eastern Front volunteers at a ceremony in Ghent, Belgium during World War II. Trumpeters play on a parapet. The Eastern Front volunteers marching in a column holding swastika flags in Gravensteen, the Castle of the Counts (Ghent's oldest monument dating from 800 AD). Several others watching them march. Men and women units of Flanders Hitler Youth and Eastern Front volunteers standing in formation during a ceremony on the castle ground. An insignia on the castle. An officer holding a swastika flag marches leading Flemish Hitler Youth units. A few officers standing in formation in front of the castle. An officer shaking hands with an Eastern Front volunteer and handing over the swastika flag to the volunteer. The volunteers standing in formation holding swastika flags. The volunteers wearing armbands with swastika sign.
Tugs tow Phoenix units for making an artificial harbor at Normandy beachhead in France during World War II. A Liberty ship scuttled to form breakwater. The flag of the U.S. on the ship. Ships and a barrage balloon in the background. Troops on the deck of a ship. A tug tows a Phoenix (reinforced concrete caisson) unit. The Phoenix unit is taken to position. It is towed.
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