Allied forces invading Normandy France, during World War 2. Formations of U.S. A-20 bombers from the 416th Bomb Group, in striped paint, fly over the Allied invasion task force in the English Channel. Allied warships begin bombarding the French coast. Allied troops climb down rope nets from their transport ships into landing craft, and head toward the beaches. A landing craft is struck and sinks with troops aboard. Troops on landing craft from the USS Bayfield (APA-33) hit the beach. U.S. soldiers on the beach being hit by German machine gun fire. Others seeking refuge under a cliff where they treat the wounded.
U.S. Army soldiers on road to Saint Marcouf, after invading Normandy in the D-Day invasion of France during World War 2. Paratroopers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division take German prisoners. A U.S. soldier talks to small French boy and girl. The girl smiles. 101st Airborne troopers display a captured Nazi flag. Allied supplies and reinforcements coming ashore on the Normandy beachheads. German prisoners of war being escorted under guard and loaded aboard USS LCI(L) 584. Disabled USS LCI-30 and some dead U.S. soldiers on the beach.
Battle-weary American soldiers attend an open air chuch service by a barn in Normandy. U.S. gunners commence a concerted artillery barrage before tanks and infantry advance toward Saint Lo, France, in World War 2. Various artillery and tanks are seen, including one M4 Sherman Crab Tank (Mine sweeper). P-47s, flying low altitude close support missions, bomb a critical target, and troops move ahead on the way to Saint Lo. Two German soldiers run to surrender. Saint Lo falls. Scenes of the devastation in the city.
General Patton standing in jeep driving through France, during World War 2. Soldier at side of road salutes. Two pet dogs riding on U.S. military vehicle. U.S. infantry hiking along roadsides. German prisoner with arm in sling escorted by U.S. soldier carrying rifle with fixed bayonet. U.S. infantry taking a break. Destroyed bridge in background. U.S. infantry marching down Champs Elysee with Arc de Triomphe in background, being cheered by enthusiastic French crowds. American honor guard walking along street. (But all spectators looking in opposite direction.) U.S. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley with French General Charles de Gaulle and French officials, saluting. American infantry again on the move in the countryside.
Allied Operation Dragoon during World War 2. Invasion convoy of ships heading to French coast, on August 15, 1944. Three divisions of the United States 7th Army make amphibious landing on the coast, and proceed rapidly into interior of France. U.S. Sherman tanks entering the French city of Lyon on September 3, 1944. Local newspaper headline about the city's liberation . Infantry of the 7th Army moving through destroyed French towns. U.S. infantry and armor (Sherman tanks) fire at German positions in a French village.
German soldiers surrendering to U.S. Army soldiers in France, during World War 2. Destroyed and burning German army vehicles. German prisoners of war being marched, by U.S. guards, past a fallen German soldier at the side of the road. Aerial view of some of 20 thousand German prisoners of war, contained inside an outdoor area. Rows of captured German military vehicles in a field. U.S. troops passing through a town in Belgium, greeted by cheering local crowd. USO show (including Bing Crosby) with singers entertaining U.S. troops during leisure time.
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