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U.S. Coast Guardsmen display fancy haircuts, 3 days before D-Day, during World War II

Four U.S. Coast Guardsmen sit on the deck of a ship docked at Weymouth, England, three days prior to D-Day, in World War 2. One of them hands out cigarettes that they smoke. The sailors take off their hats, simultaneously revealing haircuts that collectively spell the word 'HELL.'

Date: 1944, June 3
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046309
Allied invasion fleet underway towards Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied invasion fleet on their way to Normandy, France during World War II for D-Day invasion.Views from a transport ship of various Allied amphibious invasion craft leaving British waters, en route to Normandy France during World War 2. Seen nearby are several large landing craft, each carrying troops and military vehicles, as well as 4 Higgins Boats on top. Soldiers on the transport ship look at the attack transport ship USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) as it comes, abeam. On deck of the camera ship, an Army Major General points, as he converses with a Marine Colonel. Next a Destroyer Escort in camouflage paint is seen moving rapidly past the camera ship. A transport ship and various landing craft are in the background. Barrage balloons fly low over the horizon. Camera tracks the passing Destroyer Escort as it moves ahead. Drastic change of scene shows three large American Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) docked at Weymouth, England. (They are numbers: 487, 493,and 488.) Landing Craft, LCI (L) number 498, getting underway. View to the rear of a number of large landing craft underway in British waters behind the camera boat. Closeup of the bridge on Landing Craft, LCI(L) number 87, with officer and sailor. Large landing craft underway in loose formation with a line of barrage balloons overhead. Several troop ships in a line. A troop transport underway with a Benson Livermore class destroyer behind it. Closeup of soldiers on the deck of a ship, using a belt loader to place loose rounds into a machine gun belt. Soldiers looking over ship's railing at the ocean below. Officer with binoculars on ship's bridge, relays instructions to a sailor who passes them by radio to others. A sailor manning a fire control position on deck. He rotates it and focuses on formations of Allied aircraft in flight overhead. An 83 foot U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter racing past a transport ship. Allied capital war ships in the convoy, viewed by sailors from the camera ship. Soldiers napping in out-of -the -way places on deck. An officer using a long pointer as he briefs Coast Guardsmen about landing craft tactics. A Coast Guard Commander leaning over a briefing board with a sailor.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049852
United States Coast Guard preparing for the Allied invasion of Normandy (WW2)

June 9, 1944. Sand flats seen at low tide in Normandy, France. Allied forces fighting their way inland during the Normandy invasion (Three days after D-Day) in World War II. Landing craft and destroyed buildings on the beaches of Normandy. German steel beach obstacles have been stacked out of the way. A United States Sherman DD tank sunk in sand. Badly damaged LCT-25 on the beach at Normandy, with her cargo of half-tracks still aboard and remains of the first one off, sitting at her ramp where it was hit by a German shell. Higgins Boat riddled with bullet holes. Scene shifts to January 1944 when United States Army troops descend from a troop transport ship into LCT-504 for practice maneuvers in the Chesapeake Bay. A soldier operates a Higgins Boat. Another soldier directs a Higgins Boat to the shore. Troops hit the beach in Higgins Boats driven by U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the Attack Transport ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). United States troops carry equipment or belongings as they board ships to England in February 1944. Views of live aboard transport ships in convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guardsmen near weapons at duty stations. Some troops are seen wearing life vests on board. Troops sleep or lie in hammocks in their quarters. Soldiers pass the time by playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing letters, and mending clothes on deck. Troops line the deck of the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33), as the ship approaches port in England. Landing craft from the Bayfield, carrying troops, are seen in assault training exercises in England. Troops wading ashore during training. Coast Guard officers and sailors are seen aboard larger landing ships in exercises. Coast Guard officer smoking a cigar, as landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase speeds away after landing troops ashore. Trucks drive ashore from landing craft. Scene shifts to May 1944 and a formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft dropping bombs on enemy targets in Normandy. Aerial view shows bombs falling.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065477
Allied forces in England on shore liberty, and then loading ships in dry runs for Normandy invasion

U.S. Coast Guard sailors in England along with women soldiers in uniform, during liberty ashore. They play a game of lawn bowling and the look at swans in a lake. Scenes of sailors loading boxes of rations onto ships. Several soldiers lie, chat, read books and walk on the deck area of landing crafts. An officer looks through a telescope mounted on the ship towards the carrier ships heading towards the beach. Troops loading LCVP crafts and being ferried out to waiting transports. LCI crafts loaded with Infantry soldiers, engineers, and medical corpsmen waiting to move out. Actor dramatization of troops hearing the news that the real invasion is to begin. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031065
A woman feeds her triplets at the same time with a new bottle in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

A new feeding bottle developed for triplets in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Woman with her triplets seated in her house. The babies on a bed. They are fed at the same time with a new bottle.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076587
U.S. soldiers aboard a Landing Ship Tank and aboard a LCI(L) preparing for the invasion of France in World War II

American troops preparing for the invasion of Europe during World War 2. United States Army soldiers on board an LST (Landing Ship Tank) docked in England, three days before D-Day. (Slate month is wrong.) Soldiers eat C rations on the deck of LST. They rinse their mess kits in hot water. Several soldiers assigned kitchen police duties wear helmets displaying "KP." Soldiers sit along gunwales of Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L) number 88. (This craft is one of five that will land on Omaha Beach on D-Day, as part of Assault Group O-1, Commanded overall by Captain Fritzche, U.S. Coast Guard. The LCI(L) 88 belongs to Flotilla 10, and is commanded by Lt. Henry K. Rigg, USCGR)

Date: 1944, June 3
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049226