Opening scene shows a motor launch being lowered from the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33). View of a Coast Guard Crewman with many U.S. soldiers on deck behind him. Next, the troops are seen descending a landing net over the side of the ship, into Higgins boat landing craft. Waves cause the net to sway out over the water with several soldiers on it. Silhoutttes of landing craft underway in the water with sun rising through haze in background. Landing craft heading toward a beach, and then troops charging ashore over the beach. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
"Somewhere" in England during World War 2. Personnel of United States Coast Guard troop transports and landing craft on their way to a Church for Sunday services. The church sits on a street in the middle of a town in England. View from rear as members of the U.S.Coast Guard march in formation toward the church. View from entrance of the church as they march through its iron gateway and along a path to its entrance. View from inside the church as an officer leads the Guardsmen up steps into a hall. They turn to their right to enter the church sanctuary.
Men in a U.S. city, stand around near bulletin boards posting the latest war news during World War 2. A bridge behind them has wording on it reading: "The Information and War Activities Center." Closeup of a civilian and a U.S. Navy sailor reading Invasion News dispatches posted on the board. Closeups of the dispatches (out of focus). Closeup from behind of many men stopping to read the latest postings. Closeup of "flash" dispatches (out of focus).
Pedestrians in New York City lean against a barrier across the street from the New York Times building on Times Square in New York City. They are looking up at motograph ticker (also known as the zipper) which is showing news reports about the D-Day invasion of France by the Allies in World War 2. Several women and men pause to look up and read the news dispatches, including both civilians and men in military uniform. Camera focuses on a Man in Naval uniform standing near a soldier with a young woman on his arm looking up at the news ticker. Scene shifts to view over the shoulder of a woman standing at a news stand reading a Sun newspaper with headline reading: "Invasion Begins. Armies Storm into France in Great Air-Sea Assault." American flag with 48 stars displayed from window in the Times building, as news display begins reading: "Allied armies invade Europe", and "American British and Canadian troops Swarm..." Closeup of a a man seated nearby holding a newspaper with headline "Invasion Army 10 miles inland." A man's hand holding up the New York Post newspaper with headline, "Invasion - We're in France." He flips to an interior page with headline, "Allies Invade Northern France - Sky Troops Land Deep Inland." Two U.S. Navy sailors in uniform look up at the news ticker. One of them has an unlit cigarette in his mouth. Another man at the news stand reading the headlines. A man buys a newspaper and departs. Man in suit and hat crossing the street while reading the newspaper. Unlit cigarette in his mouth. Women and men in a stopped taxi viewing the Times Building motograph from the car window. More men and women standing and reading the zipper headlines. People in a stopped bus reading the Times displays from the windows of their bus.
A U.S. Destroyer during Operation Shingle (Allied invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. Opening scene shows a U.S. Mahan Dunlap Class destroyer anchored near the camera ship. View on lower deck of camera ship ( a U.S. Destroyer) shows netting containing spent naval gun shell casings. Upper deck of the Destroyer showing stowed inflated rubber rafts, A davit for launching boats, and some boats stored on the deck. Crew members in battle gear including steel helmets. Some of the Destroyer's guns in the background. The guns fire and create smoke clouds. View from underneath a gun. Sailors are seen in a boat suspended from a davit. They descend a rope ladder to the Destroyer deck. Next, a boat is seen heading away from the ship, with 4 sailors in it. View from bridge of American flag flying low over ship's gun position. Boat underway in the water.
Operation Shingle invasion convoy during Operation Shingle in World War 2. Opening scene shows view from a U. S. Destroyer showing a transport ship with several Higgins boats in water nearby, and some small invasion boats in distance. View from the Destroyer, close to land, as a lancing craft (Higgins Boat) passes in rough water. Next, Sailors on the Destroyer position a battery of 5 torpedo tubes into firing position on her deck. View from underneath the torpedo tubes, with a line of landing craft seen in distance. Sailors man an anti-aircraft gun on deck. Officer looks through binoculars. Several officers look through binoculars. Two sailors discuss a knife held by one. Warships seen in distant background. Sailors maneuver twin Bofors 40m anti-aircraft auto cannons. Destroyer's guns firing.
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