German prisoners captured by Allied forces marching on highway in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. Allied soldiers watch over them. They march on the side of the road, marching past a DUKW. Prisoners marching towards a compound area with barrage balloons overhead. The prisoners receive food and drinks upon their arrival. German prisoners wading through water to board an LCT (Landing craft tank) on beachhead.
French civilians cheer the arrival of Allied infantry soldiers and armored vehicles in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. French men and women waving to the soldiers and a boy flashed the “V” or “Victory sign”. Smiling French children waving to the soldiers. Soldiers and a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 enter a village. Sign reads “Sainte-Mere-Eglise”. Civilians welcome troops on top of an M4 Sherman tank entering the commune. A Military Police directs traffic in Sainte-Mere-Eglise. French civilian men pushing wheelbarrows with supplies. A soldier speaks to locals. Civilians clapping at the Military Police. Faces of smiling French civilians.
United States Army Jeeps and motorcycle moving along dirt road in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. Infantry troops proceed along on foot as seen from a moving Jeep. Vehicles cross a pontoon bridge. Some soldiers rest on the side of a narrow road. A soldier inspects an upturned, wrecked German tank near Carentan, France. Infantry soldiers march as they enter Carentan.
Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, Commander of the British Third Division, inspects landing craft preparations on the Solent strait at Gosport, England. Soldiers, vehicles, and supplies crowd on landing craft deck. A tank parks on landing craft deck. LCTs, destroyers, and other vessels anchored a day before D-Day. Barrage balloons flying above the ships. A crewman signals using flag semaphore above the deck. Camera moves to deck where soldiers are seen resting, playing card games, smoking, sleeping, beside vehicles as they wait for departure. A soldier reads a France guidebook. British soldiers reading books and eating and drinking. Some British troops sleep and chat under trucks.
United States 3rd battalion troops are forced into an embankment on Omaha Beach by Nazi German snipers and machine guns on D-Day in World War II. More United States Army soldiers land in Omaha Beach. A group of soldiers wearing life vests sit and rest on the beach. Some soldiers are digging trenches on the beachhead. Engineers prepare det cords and other equipment to clean up shore obstacles. Medics carry casualties in litters and treat injuries. A medic treats a soldier’s back. Another medic holds an IV fluid as his colleague treats an unconscious soldier. A Landing Ship, Tank on the beachhead. A United States Army medic treats an injured German prisoner. Nazi German prisoners of war sit on the beach head after their capture. An unconscious German soldier. Two German prisoners of war- a young soldier and a middle-aged soldier.
United States 101st Airborne Division paratrooper in a field outside the town of St. Marcouf on D-Day in World War II. Soldiers drawing sniper fire. Paratroopers rounding up and interrogate German prisoner of war. An injured German prisoner of war speaks to the paratroopers. A pile of helmets and equipment confiscated from German prisoners. A German prisoner talks while raising both his hands. Paratroopers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment in St. Marcouf. A heart-shaped symbol stenciled on a paratrooper’s helmet. A paratrooper chewing. Paratroopers look out for snipers during a mop up operation. They inspect the cemetery. U.S. troopers are seen riding captured German Panzer I Ausf.A Sd.Ktz.101 light tanks. One is pulling a field piece trooper riding on the barrel. 82nd Airborne Division soldiers walk past a sign 'St. Marcouf'. A soldier walks past a statue of the Virgin Mary. French civilians provide paratroopers information on German movements. One of the paratroopers smoke a cigarette behind a French civilian. A paratrooper speaks with French children. Paratroopers resting on the side of the road. Airborne and seaborne units make contact. A German tracked motorcycle parked on pavement, surrounded by 101st Airborne Paratroopers. 101st Airborne Paratroopers smile and hold a captured Nazi flag.
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