U.S. Army Air Service Lt. Frank A Llewellyn standing beside Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft, puts on flight goggles.Ground crewmen turn prop on Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft.An observer tests machine gun in rear cockpit. Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft in flight. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A French soldier enters side door of a Char 2C Super-heavy tank, number 97, as it passes him. Another Char 2C, number 94 (its name, "Bretagne" not seen ) plunges into a stream. View of tank number 97, from in front and below, shows its name "Normandie" painted on its front. Tank # 94 is seen, again, as it rolls over a tree; drives right through a masonry wall; climbs out of a deep ditch; and rolls into a concrete building, destroying it. The sequence concludes with Char 2C #97, riding over antitank obstacles, driving them into the ground.
During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. British troops disembark from landing crafts at Sword Beach and move in lines towards the beachhead. Military trucks and tanks are seen on the shore as smoke emerges from a hill on the beach. Various wrecked building on shore. British troops carrying equipment and a bicycle ashore. In last 15 seconds scene shifts to landing of U.S. 1st Infantry troops at Omaha beach. View of waters edge from higher up beach. Gear and bodies floating in water. U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore as several are struck by German machine gun fire and drop to the ground. (World War II period).
Views of heavy and heaviest German railway siege guns of World War 2. A Krupp K5E 283 mm Leopold railroad gun moving along a railroad track. It hooks up with supporting rail cars. Soldiers ride in an open car carrying shells for the gun. Soldiers moving powder bags for the gun. Glimpse of German troops carrying shells from a trench (probably for a 12.8 cm FlaK 40 anti-aircraft gun). Next,German soldiers are seen pushing a shell for a 38 cm Siegfried K (E) (K - Kanone, on a rail dolly, and them moving it by means of a mechanical arm, up to the breech of the gun where gunners load it. Several views of shells being loaded into German railway guns, including the 80cm Dora, or Schwerer Gustav. Views of heavy German gun barrels being raised, including 406mm (16 inch) SK C34 Coastal Defense guns. The Thor 60cm mortar being raised for firing. More railway guns.
View of United States soldiers entering the city of Paris on military vehicles. Cheering parisians welcome United States forces as they pass through streets. Locals from residential building wave soldiers and crowd on street look at a United states air force plane in sky. A wounded civilian is carried to ambulance. FFI members carry an injured woman though street. (World War II period).
Mast of British ship with British Naval Ensign shown. Allied warships off coast of Normandy in World War 2. Several barrage balloons aloft. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower seen on bridge of the British Royal Navy Leander-class light cruiser HMS Apollo with British Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, Naval Commander in Chief of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force for the invasion. Landing craft approaches ship and General Omar N Bradley boards the HMS Apollo. He is greeted by General Eisenhower and Admiral Ramsey. Another craft nears the ship and British General Bernard L. Montgomery boards the HMS Apollo.
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