U.S. war correspondents in London, England shortly before the Invasion of France by Allied forces. The uniformed correspondents climb down the stairs of a building. An officer walks down a street. Double decker buses, cars and other vehicular traffic on streets of London. Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace. A British officer gets out of a car.
U.S. war correspondents traveling with the 101st Airborne shortly after the Invasion of France by Allied forces in the summer of 1944. Allied officers aboard a ship. Soldiers on a beach of coastal France. Town buildings rising up from the shore. A French woman holds a cat. A war correspondent and a soldier from the 101st Airborne look at pictures and smile. Town buildings along a street of a coastal French town. A barbed wire fence with a beach in the background. A Red Cross flag on an American jeep. Massive seawall fortifications separating the beach and the coastal French town. Children play, walking on the sea wall and playing in the sand of the beach. Allied soldiers confer inside a tent. Ships on the coastline. An American flag aboard a ship.
U.S. war correspondents in a French town shortly after the allied Invasion of France near the end of World War II in Europe. Portion of U.S. invasion fleet off coast of France. Allied naval fleet underway at sea. Officers and war correspondents aboard the ships. U.S. Army jeeps on the hangar deck of a ship. Equipment unloaded at a French port. U.S. flag on a ship. Men milling about in the foreground. U.S. war correspondents seated on the hood of a jeep in a French town as they talk and smile. A photographer with a camera as he talks to a soldier. Buildings along the harbor of the coastal town and views of the channel.
U.S. Army soldiers and U.S. war correspondents in France shortly after the Invasion of France by Allied forces. A war correspondent walks on a Normandy beach. Many triangular beach obstacles with mines attached to them placed there by German forces and slave laborers. A French family poses outside a house. A young girl poses and smiles. U.S. troops advancing to attack at the St. Lo line. Views of the city of Valognes. Military vehicles and U.S. Army soldiers pass by destroyed buildings in Valognes. A U.S. war correspondent walks on city streets. Correspondent seated at the edge of a fountain with Allied flags in the background. HE signs an autograph for a young boy.
U.S. war correspondents in France during the first few months after the Allied invasion to liberate France. Views of French countryside. Views in a village. People milling about on a street. Three young French children ride on the back of a mule as a boy pulls the mule. U.S. war correspondents pose with a French family. A woman with a child. A sign on a building reads 'Hotel and Restaurant Moderne' and a French flag flies out front. Small boats at a harbor of a coastal French town. U.S. Army jeeps on a street. Two French civilians walking with a bicycle and two U.S. soldiers together cross the wreckage of a partially destroyed bridge. A bicyclist on the street of a heavily bombed town with rubble and wrecked homes. Close and distant views of Mont Saint Michel, the small rocky island at the mouth of Couesnon River in Normandy. U.S. sailors aboard a vessel at sea.
A passenger airplane of the American Overseas Airlines in Frankfurt, Germany. It is on a multi-leg journey carrying 45 former War Correspondents back to Europe for celebrations commemorating the 5th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of World War II. Views of Frankfurt from a moving vehicle, high atop a ridge, looking down at the city, and winery grape fields. Many Frankfurt buildings visible and the Main River running beside the city. Views of some buildings still destroyed from World War II, five years prior. Several African American U.S. Army soldiers beside cars greet the party of former war correspondents. The correspondents meet with a U.S. Army General -- possibly J. Lawton Collins or Thomas Handy. A correspondent looks out from a window at a war-damaged building in the background. A street car with the sign "Nied Hochst" arrives at a stop and civilians get into it. Exterior and interior views of the main train station, the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. Some cakes and pastries in a bakery. Correspondents meeting with a local Frankfurt official and his wife. Remains of a largely destroyed church, likely either Frankfurt Cathedral (Imperial Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew) (German: Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomäus) or Katharinenkirche (the Church of St. Katherine). Views of the wrecked exterior and interior of the church. A West German flag draped over an interior balcony. Sign outside the church door indicates "Entrance to the Exhibition" (Eingang zur Ausstellung). A Germany girl selling trinkets at a market cart. German boys and girls in a market square and fair area, possibly Romerberg. Correspondents approach a booth selling cigars and cigarettes. More partially destroyed buildings in Frankfurt. Correspondents boarding a plane at Rhein Main Airbase. View of the airport terminal. Sign on a building reads 'Rhein Main Base Operations. Elev 358'. The correspondents boarding the American Overseas Airlines aircraft, and seated inside the aircraft. Aerial view of the German countryside below. Passengers sleep and relax aboard the airborne aircraft.
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