U.S. Army soldiers and officers at the beachhead at Cherbourg Peninsula, France a little more than one week after D-Day invasion of France. Dignitaries on DUKW arrive at the beachhead. General Dwight D Eisenhower climbs over the side of the DUKW and jumps down to the ground. He walks in the area and then climbs into the back of a waiting Jeef. General Eisenhower, General George C Marshall, General Courtney Hodges and Admiral Ernest J King in jeep tour beachhead. Jeep moves along a street. Point of view shots from moving jeep as it drives between villages, passing a wrecked German tank and then a horsecart heading the other direction. Wrecked houses and buildings seen on the sides of the street as the jeeps enter Isigny-sur-Mer. The officers parked in a jeep in Isigny, driven by Private Louis E Kriston.
U.S. Secretary of War Stimson, General Omar Bradley, and U.S. General George S. Patton tour a field hospital in Normandy, France during World War II. Bradley poses outside a hospital tent with Secretary Stimson and an army doctor. Wounded soldiers in the tent. Signs on boards outside the tent. The United States Army generals visit a battlefield graveyard above Omaha Beach after D-Day. They drive down to Omaha Beach, still littered with equipment.. They look around. A flag on the beachhead. Soldiers stand on the field. Tents on the field. Soldiers work on the field.
29th Division combat photographer images show medic soldiers aiding a wounded U.S. Army soldier in St Lo France. A jeep parked in the background. Medics help the wounded soldier who has apparent wound on his right foot. They take the wounded soldier on a stretcher. Houses beside the road as they carry the soldier on a litter. Medics take the wounded through some woods or brush. They take him to a waiting jeep.
C-47s tow gliders for take off in Saint Mere Eglise, France. They fly over an airbase. Other gliders take off and fly. (World War II period)
C-47s gliders take off in Saint Mere Eglise, France. They fly over the ground. Trees on the ground. A glider on the ground takes off. (World War II period)
The inauguration of the first church services in Saint Honorine Des Pertes, France. Soldiers in Jeep pass on the street. Houses, buildings, and shops beside the street. Civilians on the street. Children watch from the window of a house. They wave the French flag. Women enter The Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes Church (Rue de l'Église, 14520 Aure sur Mer, France). Statue of Jesus Christ in front of the church. American soldiers near the church. People come out of the church. (World War II period).
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