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1944 200548 200548 COL SIL 06:00:05 - 06:10:21 D-Day - Invasion rehearsal
Shells brought aboard ship by cargo nets from landing craft. Mending cargo nets. Troops up gangway of ship carrying shell cases on backs. Man directing winching of jeep into hold of transport ship. Top shot landing craft loaded with men moving away from ship. Men down cargo nets into landing craft.
06:05:52 Sandy beach, landing craft beached. Landing craft in shallow water, aircraft fly overhead, various shots ships at anchor. Loading jeep into landing craft. Various shots aircraft.
06:07:58 Top shot landing craft approaching shore, shots from inside landing craft of jeep driving down ramp near beachhead. Small tank lowered into landing craft. LTC underway.

1944 220761
220761 220761 COL SIL 02:00:05 - 02:08:36 D-Day - Wounded Evacuation
On board ship, lookout wearing anti-glare glasses scans sky for aircraft. Shot from bridge as transport ship beaches. Troops and equipment off ships. Officers on bridge of small ship coming alongside larger ship.
LS Battleship of the Nevada class, camouflaged destroyer passes across screen. Men using hand cranked windlass. CU Bridge area LCI 94, man painting.
02:03:12 RV US Navy and British WACS in group walking in park. Looks like England
02:03:42 Slate and black
02:04:02 At Sea LCI listing in heavy seas. LCI US 492 passes in front of transport ship at anchor. Troops with packs on board transport. Wounded man treated on deck of ship. Wounded man on stretcher transferred to landing craft. Second casuality transferred by stretcher. Blood soaked bandages etc on deck of ship.
02:06:45 Various ships at sea inc. LCU US 199.
02:07:14 Ships at anchor, barrage balloons. Landing craft carrying some wounded. Various ships at sea, coastline of Normandy visible in background.

1944 220761
220761 220761 COL SIL 02:08:46 - 02:16:22 D-Day - Inspection - Weather Balloon
US 582, LST on beach, ramps laid - trying to get jeeps off landing craft onto sandy beach, sacking and ramps on sand.
Naval and army officers and personel line up on deck. Sailors inspection on deck. Officers inspection. Other nationality sailors inspected. Rating comes on deck with weather balloon, up stairs past man sending semaphore message. Weather balloon secured, readings?. Balloon released and reading taken.
02:13:20 Rest and Relaxation - hands shuffling and dealing playing cards. Below decks, CU various sailors relaxing.
02:14:29 Various ships at anchor. Anti-aircraft guns fired.

1944 220763
220763 220763 COL SIL 04:43:45 - 04:54:01 D-Day Crossing - Good colour - sunny!
Landing craft underway, men relaxing on deck. British landing craft underway. Patrol boat underway. USCG - man taking bearing with magnetic compass. Planes flying overhead.
04:45:35 Shipboard church services. Big band playing on deck, men listening.
04:48:20 LCTs underway, breakwater visible in bg. Ships underway, cliffs visible.
04:50:29 Transport ship underway. LCVP attempting to attach to ship in rough weather. Boat finally secured and hoisted aboard transport ship. Men climbing Jacobs ladder attached to boom.

1944 220764
220764 220764 COL SIL 05:00:13 - 05:10:30 D-Day - Crossing
LS Four ships underway. British County Class Cruiser underway. Steel barge loaded down with Military trucks etc, land visible in bg. LST US 281 on beach unloading heavy equipment.
05:01:30 Good shots rough seas and stormy water crashing over wreckage. various shots ships lying off coast of Normandy in heavy seas. Steel pier built out into sea.
05:03:50 Man taking signal flags from bag. LST convoy. Two officers on main deck od LST, man looking through binoculars. British LCI. Men on bridge of USCG patrol boat. US flag flying from mast. British MTB tied up to coast guard vessel. Patrol boat underway.
05:06:33 Officer speaking into megaphone. LCI with patrol boat tied up alongside, equipment on deck of transport ship. Patrol boat underway. Liberty ship at anchor in bg. Beached ships. Soldiers with packs along beach. Docked patrol boats. Men run to Anti-aircraft gun, magazine loaded
05:10:04 Patrol boat, cargo vessels at anchor in bg.

1944 220764
220764 220764 COL SIL 05:11:12 - 05:21:10 D-Day - Recreation / Embarkation / Crossing
Two US sailors and British Wren and Wac in park. Soldiers sitting in park with locals - looks like bowling green.
Ships in dock area of English town. Soldiers with kit boarding landing craft. Column of soldiers arrive at landing pier and boarding landing craft. Soldiers lined up on dock area. LS Part of invasion Task Force.
LS Two Coast Guardsmen aboard LCI.
LS British battleship of the Warspite Class. LS British transport underway.
CU Coast guard HM; Red Cross on his steel helmet. LS Destroyer of the Livermore Class underway left to right.
MLS LCI, loaded with troops, dead in water. Signalman manning 24" signal light on signal bridge.
05:15:54 MS Barrel of open 5"38 caliber mount; man in foul-weather gear on lookout. Transport underway. HA LS Boat crew readying LCM. Anchor lifted, stream of water going down and washing chain. CU Coast Guardsman making splice in line.
05:18:48 Interior to troop's compartments, with soldiers checking rifles, etc. MS Two soldiers cleaning water-cooled, 30 caliber Browning machine gun.

1944 220764
220764 220764 COL SIL 05:21:36 - 05:27:28 D-Day - Beachhead activity
Beachhead activity - pebbles on beach. Bomb damaged buidling on beach. Ships at anchor with barrage balloons. Shots from patrol boat of ships at anchor. Empty landing craft.
05:23:22 Tug towing mulberry harbour? Various shiping movements. Two men opening cans of sausages.
05:24:20 Cliff on waters edge.
LCI loaded with troops; sunken ships in background. Sunken boat with LCM alongside.
MS British trawler with two barges behind it. MS Patrol boat; sunken ships and another patrol boat in background. Various shots different shipping. Waves washing over sunken ship. Landing craft in very rough water. LCT which has been washed aground; explosion on beach in background. MS British LCT which has been broken in two; American LCT alongside of it.

1944 220764
220764 220764 COL SIL 05:28:02 - 05:36:57 D-Day - Preparations
Man on liferaft filling barrell with water from jug. Men chipping rust from deck of LCI US-325, painting decks. LCIs underway.
05:30:59 Various ships at sea. Three men man Anti-aircraft gun. LCT aground, rolling hills in BG.
05:32:44 Men looking through binoculars. Barrage balloons. On deck, men sorting ropes and generally making running repairs.
05:34:37 Man painting campaign stripes and red stars on LCI. US-84. Men with Ack Ack gun. Ships at anchor in British bay, looks West country.

1944 220764
220764 220764 COL SIL 05:37:40 - 05:48:58 D-Day - Invasion - Bombardment - Damage - Shipboard
Battleship bombarding beach USS Texas firing. Various other ships. Sunken ships acting as breakwater, wunded man transfered to landing craft
05:39:50 Men looking at bullet holes and damage on ship, examines shrapnel. Sunken ships forming breakwater on Normandy beach.
05:41:18 Local standing by wrecked ship on beach. German bunker and foxhole. Debris on beach. Men looking out at anchored ships (film dirty)
05:42:44 Coastguard Ensign working on charts. Officer looking through binoculars, framed by porthole.
05:44:44 Officer climbing ladder onto deck. Two officers on deck. Ensign with charts. Signaller using light. Officer and sailor examining ammunition ready box. Swabbing decks. Sailors relax.

1944 220764
220764 220764 COL SIL 05:49:30 - 05:57:34 D-Day - Invasion - South of France?
Convoy of ships underway. Landing craft beaches, soldiers run up sands. Rock of Gibraltar seen from ship, transport ship passes in FG. Coastline of Spain? Man sending signal with lamp. Landing craft loaded with Free French troops. Landing craft lowered away. More Free French into landing craft. Following patrol boat with red and black flag. Line of landing craft approaching sandy beach. Free French out of craft.

1944 LN 050-032 220838 220838 COL SIL 11:27:15 - 11:37:38 D-Day At Katz Part 1
Army tents in a clearing in France. Lt. Col Stevens and three other men in uniform by train "London Euston - Glasgow Central"
11:27:59 At sea, Stevens and other on deck of warship, HMS Belfast. Other ships in convoy, barrage balloons. Stevens looking out at invasion fleet.
11:29:55 Good shots ships guns firing with puffs of orange smoke. Various shots ships underway.
111:30:47 men at stations, Man with red cross armband and wearing protective hood and gloves looking through binoculars. Sailors on deck with empty shell casings. Good panning shots invasion fleet with barrage balloons. Officers on bow of ship, high shot men on deck.
11:32:42 George Stevens looking through 35mm camera on tripod. Aircraft overhead. Stevens wearing helmet and life vest on landing craft.
11:33:20 Building on shore - sign Beamieaes, pan along buildings on shoreline. Beachhead activity, includes British troops?. Bomb damaged buildings.
11:33:51 Sign Route Interdit Vers S'Aubin, Stevens with camera unit setting up with Canadian or Australian troops? Troops sit in front of tank with mine flails holding sign in German re mine field.
11:34:24 Camera crews filming activity outside Beamieaes. Man labels film can. Various shots filming and moving tripods etc.
11:35:34 Captain? of ship. Flags, red flag and flag of St George flying from ship. Naval officer and man chatting and smiling. Crew looking ashore using telescopes.
11:36:04 Injured men on stretchers lifted aboard ship.

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"Includes footage from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress"

1944 LN 050-032 220838 220838 COL SIL 11:37:39 - 11:47:20 D-Day At Katz Part 2
England - Six men and officers walking along docks pre-embarkation for D-Day. Mass of different ships and craft tied up at dock flying US flags. Officer, possibly Capt. Holly Morse, and other standing on dockside.
11:38:46 France - Stevens digging foxhole with another man. Men eating on camp table outside tent. Various shots soldiers in camp.
11:40:13 Sign - Bridge under fire, Stevens turns to camera and signals to go forward. Jeep and military trucks move down road. Very good shot truck towards camera in half light with soldiers walking, bombed out buildings on side of roads. Ambulance truck towards camera through devastated town / village.
11:41:16 Jeep arriving at dock area Cherbourg. Group of four standing next to German sign ?verboten.
11:41:37 Pan down twin spires of church, Stevens and others leaving church. Large French flag hanging from balcony of building. Various shots activity in town. Roadsign Caen 18k, Paris 240k. Stevens and other walking down road with young French boy. War monument. Stevens with British? officer.
11:43:00 Stevens and Moffat walking to airfield. RAF planes on ground. British or Canadian officer with Stevens showing fighter plane. Stevens climbs into cockpit of Hawker Sea Fury. Officer explaining. Bombed out hangars, smoke rising in distance. Group round jeep inc. British? soldier. Bombs on side of road. Jeep drives off. Stevens and others filming advancing troops. Good shots tanks passing down leafy lanes. Stevens and other having mugs of coffee and army field breakfast by jeep. Camel cigarettes. Trucks loaded with men advance down country road. Dead horse at side of road.

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"Includes footage from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress"

1944 LN 050-032 220838 220838 COL SIL 11:47:21 - 11:59:18 D-Day At Katz Part 3
Jeep arrives in severely bomb damaged town. Camera crew. Huge hole in wall of Hotel du Lion. Road sign Carantilly 4k / Cerisy-la-salle 10k. Good shots trucks loaded with troops moving forward. Tanks moving forward. Stevens and Sgt. Hamilton looking at shell casing, walking through ruins of bombed out church.
11:49:23 Stevens looking at stretcher containing dead German soldier. CU dead Germans. Tracking shot past medics giving aid to wounded.
Stevens and others with three GIs dressed in German Panzer SS uniforms. Stevens and others driving to campsite, sign Spec. Cov. Unit. Various shots campsite men sitting around listening to radio. Camp signpost with signs pointing to London, Paris New York Berlin and Shirley..
11:52:51 Bombed out cathedral and town.
11:53:34 General Montgomery presenting medals to US soldiers. Underlit shot of 3 star general and other officers. Generals and Monty.
11:54:13 General Patton wearing pearl handled pistols, laughing and talking with British including Monty. Camera crew. Various shots General reading a citation ? Good shots cameras both still and movie recording event.
11:55:35 GIs at campsite getting packages, cigarettes and candy. Men on parade in campsite. Various shots camp activity. Men looking up towads sky. Chow time - men waiting with steel mess kits.

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"Includes footage from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress"

1944 LN 501-031 220289 220289 Colour sd 07:09:50 - 07:19:23 D-Day & invasion, England to Paris - Reel One
London - Big Ben - Houses of Parliament - Westminster Abbey - US servicemen visiting. Marble Arch - crowds - Hyde Park, Speakers Corner. Children's playground, kids on swings, drinking fountain. St Pauls Cathedral- Buckingham Palace, guards on duty. Tower Bridge, Thames tugs with cargo, Fleet street - policeman.
Army camp South of England shots of press contingent in camp, Jack Lieb (cameraman) with shovel - CBS correspondent Larry Laseur. Other press - Gordon Becker - Jack Thompson - Ernie Pyle - Larry O'Reilly. More correspondents Clark Lee and Bill Stoneman. Press corps loaded onto small trucks and set off for South Coast - travel through market town.
07:15:24 Plymouth, bomb damage, buildings destroyed - jeeps on the road - Crossroads guards, one British and one American soldier inspects bedroll.
OWI correspondents Wes Haines (Haynes) and Pete Carroll AP press photographer - eating K-rations. Washing hands in river, Pete Carroll taking scenic shots of river etc.
07:17:05 Docks, 101st Airborne Division loading onto landing craft for transfer to larger ships. Close shots smiling troops. Press aboard LCI with Commander of Invasion Group and Captain of LCI Number 5 Lt Patten? 07:18:26 Wes Haines trimming beard and troops of 101st relaxing on deck, one imitates Hitler. Ships mascot puppy having life jacket fitted. 07:19:10 Lt Patten briefing crew re that afternoons sailing, crew waving hats and cheering.

1944 LN 501-031 220289 220289 Colour sd 07:19:24 - 07:29:03 D-Day & invasion, England to Paris Reel Two
LCI no 4 with Commander moving out into channel. Convoy at sea - ships by moonlight - daylight shots convoy.
07:20:50 B/W footage landings taken on board British landing craft with automatic camera. Shots landing on Utah beach. British landing - rifles wrapped in cellophane.
07:21:56 B/W troops shot down on beach
07:22:03 Colour Wes Haines and Pete Carrol carrying equipment walking ashore - troops dig in - aircraft overhead - ships run aground - searching for mines.
07:22:47 MP standing in front of flag Green Beach HQ. Foxholes first night on beach. German POWs.
07:23:31 General Collins talking with men - Press corp eating, Jack Lieb - Larry Laseur and Bob Landry.
07:23:52 Jack Leib on board ship returning to England - cliffs approaching Bournemouth.
07:24:29 B/W footage flying bombs - AA guns knocking out V-1s - Aftermath of buzz bomb attack - digging out wounded
07:25:16 Colour - Jack Leib returns to France on board LST with unit of 3rd armoured division - waiting to land at Cherbourg
07:26:09 Troops constructing slipways on beach - beachhead activity - landing on shore
07:27:03 Top shots Cherbourg destroyed Cherbourg docks and bridge.
07:27:45 French women with flowers - long line German POWs marched along street - one in pram
07:28:26 Portrait of Hitler used as dart board. First official ceremony when General Collins presents Tricolor (French flag) made out of parachute silk to Mayor of Cherbourg.

1944 LN 501-031 220289 220289 Colour sd 07:29:04 - 07:39:11 D-Day & invasion, England to Paris Reel Three
Ernie Pyle talking to Signal Corp commander with Bert Brandt and others. Troops moving up up towards Valognes - Heavy transport through village. GIs walking -
07:30:00 Triangles on beach at low tide that had been built to hove mines attached acting as boat traps. Crucifix on church in Barre Fleur ? - small boats in harbour of fishing village.
07:31:00 Fortifications on coastline built by slave labour - lighthouse and forts near Granville.
07:32:16 Haymaking - artillery gun fires from bushes - P-47 taxiing - (St Mere Eglise area ?) loading 500lb bomb on planes - aircraft takeoff
07:33:59 B/W - Planes have mid air collision various shots fighter planes in action - camera gun material explosions etc.
07:35:06 Mont St Michel - Bob Capa of Time Magazine. French woman outside Hotel Poulard - two GIs walk down village street - streets with flags.
07:36:00 Countryside shots - French peasant - GIs sightseeing in monastery
07:36:28 Press correspondents Charles Collingwood, Helen Kirkpatrick and Joe Leibling and Becker.
07:36:58 Ernest Hemingway drinking wine and talking to Bill Waldman ?
07:37:25 Group relaxing Bill Stringer in group and sightseeing
07:38:07 Children playing on beach - lovely shots monastery and beach - sunset.

1944 LN 501-031 220289 220289 Colour sd 07:39:12 - 07:55:42 D-Day & invasion, England to Paris Reel Four
Shots countryside - POV jeep (jiggly)
07:39:26 Correspondents swimming in the nude in lake - relaxing by lake
07:40:29 Edward G Robinson talking to troops outside barn where show to entertain troops is held
07:40:56 Rambouillet Town - soldiers milling around - press corps laughing together including George Stevens
07:41:32 Repeated material Edward G etc:
07:42:31 Sign post Versailles 32 Paris 52 - Troops etc towards Paris
07:43:27 Arc de Triomphe - Champs Elysees with crowds (dark)
07:44:17 B/W de Gaulle - snipers - crowds taking cover - French collaborators manhandled by crowds - German POWs.
07:45:29 Col American Troops march down Champs Elysees (dark) shots landmarks and buildings in Paris including Opera .House - crowds on street - Eiffel Tower - going up in lift in tower - shots of Paris - River Seine and buildings. Crowds on street.
07:48:03 Auteuil Race course - horse racing - women in glamorous clothes
07:48:39 Paris - Art gallery in street paintings on display - artist painting street scene in old quarter of Paris
07:49:11 Countryside shots - village - forest of Ardennes
07:49:39 General Collins talking to General Maurice Rose
07:49:58 Units of 3rd armoured division in jeeps etc through streets
07:50:13 Shots happy children posing with troops
07:50:37 Children posing in front of Seigfreid line
07:51:20 POV travelling through country
07:51:31 Germany - Station Aachen Rothe Erde - bomb damaged buildings - few GIs on streets
07:52:11 GIs waiting to be called into action
07:52:23 Shot of propellor from plane window - cemetery - war graves on Normandy beaches
07:52:37 Devastation - buildings in ruins in Berlin
07:53:01 B/W Berlin in ruins
07:53:13 General Eisenhower (Ike) addressing troops - exhibition of weapons and aircraft used by Germans V2 rocket - ME-262 - Jet plane - Japanese Kamikaze bomb plane - Plane built by Germans to bomb New York. Called Alles Kaputt on nose.
07:54:57 Atomic explosion New Mexico (B/W)
07:55:32 Sunset
NB Sound out at 07:56:25

1944 LN 501-038 220312 220312 Col SIL 01:00:00 - 01:12:30 D-Day & Invasion, England to Paris Outtakes
On board British naval ship - various shots at sea
01:03:12 France - chateau two men on balcony - two French men looking at poster "Its a Long Way to Rome". US pilot standing next to small monoplane - cameraman and pilot pose for camera.
01:05:25 On board US naval ship - various shots other ships in convoy - high ranking officers.
01:07:40 London - Park Lane ? US press corp in uniform sightseeing - Big Ben - London park - tulips - nice street scene Houses of Parliament.
01:09:21 Football match Services ? at Wembley ? injured among spectators (dark)
01:10:44 US press corp pose with British army officer and wife ?
01:11:30 London Street maybe Oxford Street - shots from moving vehicle - Trafalgar Square - London buses.

1944 LN 501-038 220312 220312 Col SIL 01:12:31 - 01:21:01 D-Day & Invasion, England to Paris Outtakes
At Sea - army and navy officer talking.
France - various shots people posing for camera - street scene in town - beach - French children and civilians relaxing.
01:14:50 - Landing craft - gunner very short - top shot over town and countryside.
01:15:25 - At sea.
01:15:44 France - US Jeeps lined up on dockside (dark). Press corp pose - short shots some flipped of town, countryside, beach and French civilians much unusable - nice shots kids on donkey and family posing on doorstep - Town beside sea

On screen quote "No compromise is possible ....utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan" . Victory / Liberty bell ringing, superimposed over marching troops.

1944 LN 501-150 LN 501-150 LN 501-150 col Sd 01:00:13 - 01:10:50 Beachhead to Berlin - Reel 1 - Good colour
England - harbour inlet - could be Fowey - naval ships at anchor. Manor house which is US Coastguards Barracks, Greenway. Interior Sailors relax - play cards. Chaplains office - chaplain typing letter.
Injured / casualities retrning from Normandy - stretchers.
01:02:30 USCG cutters - LCIs - LCVPs - at anchor. Rescue cutter "Flying Angel". Various shots ships on rehearsals for D-Day. Flotilla - barrage balloons - landing craft to beaches. Military vehicles and tanks offloaded.
01:04:49 Maintenance crew working on coastguard cutter.
01:05:03 Rest and relaxation - Group leaving pub, green bowling, feeding swans.
01:05:36 Harbour - rations loaded onto ships - Troops and equipment loaded onto transport ships. Deck scenes. Very staged announcement that D-Day is happening. Good shots as ships up anchor. Invasion fleet underway - aircraft escort - barrage balloons. Troops on deck waiting.
01:09:23 Enemy observation plane spotted - ships anti-aircraft (Ack Ack) guns firing - excellent shots. Plane into water in flames. Fleet underway. Sunset - flags lowered and chaplain holds service on deck.

1944 LN 501-207 220656 220656 COL SIL 22:13:15 - 22:41:07 D-Day - Normandy Invasion - Good colour
Ship US 555 LCI grounded. CU woman officer. Body floating in sea. Top shot deck of transport / hospital ship as wounded brought aboard by hoist.
22:31:00 Good shots stormy sea smashing against harbour.
22:31:12 Ships tied up in harbor. Troops walking to shore from landing craft - wrecked jeep in foreground. Soldiers feet as shell casings fall around him.
22:31:39 G-A Aircraft in formation fly over
22:31:51 On board ship - prayers - priest conducts service. Sentry
22:32:33 Channel - small ships - barrage balloons over harbour. Sea defences. Troops into landing craft. Soldiers wade to shore. Rescued enemy pilot? climbing onto ship. Landing craft into harbour. Wake from boat.
22:34;25 Black troops loading crates onto truck. Beachhead activities. Stormy sea smashing against grounded ship. Body into landing craft. Shot of destroyer? taken from shore. Beachhead activities.
22:36:48 On board ship - firing anti-aircraft guns. CU officer. roops on deck. Shot of shoreline with barrage balloons. Various shots ships at sea. Officers on turret of US 84 with binoculars. Troops on shore. CU sailors.
22:39:41 Stormy sea smashing against harbour wall. Various shots landing craft.
22:40:34 On board ship firing Ack Ack gun.

1944 LN 501-207 220656 220656 COL SIL 22:41:16 - 22:49:22 D-Day - Beachhead to Berlin - Colour
LS LCMs approaching beach; smoke on the beach in bg.Landing craft hitting the beach, ramp splashes in water. HA LS Overlooking the beachhead, troops going ashore through boat traps LCI loaded with troops, underway. GtoA LS Two motor bombers flying overhead.
22:41:57 Troops standing around on ship. Landing craft underway in water; troops in fg, on camera ship. Three men bailing out with buckets. LCVPs approaching beach through boat traps. Dead man floating in the water; AKs in B/G. SC (sub chaser) coming toward camera; MS Wounded man given medical aid by two men. Tattered American flag flying from ship; SC in B/G.
Troops coming over the side of an APA on cargo net into landing craft. LCVP at rendezvous point.
Troops in an LCVP as it gets underway.
22:44:04 Self-propelled barge loaded with trucks, troops, and equipment, headed for the beach. Sandy beach and legs of men passing by. Wounded men lying around on stretchers on board ship. Men on deck of an LCT, lying on stretcher; men leaning over rail of camera ship. Beachhead activity
LST pulls up on the beach; truck drives out to join other vehicles on beach; men also on beach.
22:46:15 LCT on beach with ramp down unloading field ambulances. Jeep backs around on beach
MLS 6x6 truck comes onto beach from LOT and drives out of scene; another LOT in bg.
22:47:07 DUKW drives up onto beach - DUKW loaded with supplies comes up onto the beach - cargo ship and others in B/G.
Crew on DUKW as it pulls onto beach loaded with supplies.

1981 - 1984 LN 501-136 220611 LN 501-136 COL SD 02:26:28
President Reagan - Morning Again in America (Campaign Broadcast)
Ronald Reagan takes oath at inauguration intercut with scenic shots of America and happy American people.
Exterior White House. Interior Reagan at desk reading. Reagan in meetings with advisors in various situations. Reagan and VP George Bush walking. Reagan and Bush talking in office. Vox pops re pride in America.
02:29:48 AV skyscrapers - montage idealised shots of America over shots of song " I'm Proud to be an American " (Advise music rights to be checked)
02:31:01 Air Force One landing in South Korea - President visit DMZ and attends outdoor Church Service with troops. Reagan wearing Parka jacket. Reagan wearing US Army camouflage fatigues - getting food in canteen line. Reagan meeting soldiers in huts.
02:32:20 Voxpops re praise of President Reagan - good economy - less unemployment. Montage construction industry. Headlines re interest rates and inflation. Reagan to camera intercut with shots people buying houses and cars. Woman praises Reagans TV appearances.
02:34:43 Old couple walking down suburban street and on beach at sunset - re pensions and social security. Various shots old people some speaking in praise of Reagan
02:35:35 Reagan assassination attempt - FBI bundle President to ground. Newspaper headlines ro shooting.
Reagan makes joke re Republican doctors - nice shot smiling. Still photograph meeting with Cardinal Cook. Reagan in close up talking of shooting and God.
02:37:22 President and mrs Reagans trip to Japan and China - crowds welcome him. President entertained. Walking on Great Wall of China.
02:38:23 Reagan in Northern France reading at D-Day anniversary ceremony. intercut with footage D-Day landings. Sixty two veterans - members of the original landing party. Good shot Reagan saluting. War graves. President and Nancy walking through and placing flowers.
02:39:45President on dais makes moving speech re D-day veteran who had died before he could return to Normandy but was represented by his daughter.
02:41:20 AVs over American countryside. Reagan on horseback. Reagan at ranch grooming horse, in T-shirt chopping wood. Riding with Nancy. Reagan to camera re why he is running for re-election - interior Oval office. Interior Roosevelt room - details of battle flags. Montage previous shots. Statue of Liberty with scaffolding. RV Reagan and Bush away from camera. Still triumphant Reagan.

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1939 - 1944 LN 501-261 220751 220751 B/W SD 14:30:57 - 14:41:52 The French Campaign 1944
Stock shots pre-war Paris - Eiffel Tower - Madeleine - people walking in streets, pavement cafe - artist in Tuileries - art on display in streets - bookshop. Sign Congrès des Ecrivains - meeting of renowned writers.
14:33:10 Night shots Paris - traffic - neon signs - Moulin Rouge. Interior nightclub - wealth and glamour. Woman guitarist.
14:33:40 Mobilization placards are posted in 1939 as war is declared on Germany. Civilians dig air raid shelters and sandbag buildings. Newspaper headlines announce the fall of Poland and the invasion of the Low Countries.
14:34:16 German motorized forces roll through France. German troops march into Paris under the Arc de Triomphe as Parisians weep. Hitler and Goering enter Paris in open-top car. Classic shot Hitler in front of Eiffel Tower. Nazi flag flies from tower.
14:35:06 Pres. Roosevelt addresses Congress. American volunteer workers prepare packages for French relief. US troops drill, shipyards, factories turn out guns and tanks, factory - aircraft production. Atlantic convoy.
14:36:56 1943 - President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill confer in Quebec.
14:37:11 Roosevelt, Churchill Stalin, Molotov and Marshall in Tehran.
14:37:33 Map showing German fortifications - gun emplacements - tank traps etc. Rommel inspects Atlantic wall.
14:38:21 Allied planes in formation. RAF aircraft in flight over sea - interior cockpit. Dogfight - German fighter shot down. Allied planes drop bombs over France?
14:39:15 England - Stockpiles of equipment for D-Day.
14:39:36 London - June 1944 - High command planning meeting - Gens. Montgomery and Eisenhower plan the European invasion at headquarters.
14:39:50 Allied planes take off on bombing missions over French coast. Cameragun footage - Strafing German train. Building explodes. Strafing German planes on the ground.
14:40:40 6Jun1944 - D-Day invasion - British and American warships shelling coastline of France. Rocket guns fired. Animated map showing invasion route. Allied forces land on beaches of Normandy. German film showing Nazi troops shooting at allies from bunker. US troops advance.

1939 - 1945 SN 501-053 SN 501-053 SN 501-053 B/W SD 13:11:04 - 13:18:26 Title: Germany Gives Up.
Truman at desk speaks announcing German surrender.
Crowds in streets cheering; Wall street & ticker-tape. Packed Times Square & people waving flags.
13:12:14 Heavy devastation in Europe. Bodies; German prisoners.
13:12:40 Hitler & marching Nazis in various situations. Goose-stepping. Siegfried Line tank traps. Hitler with Mussolini and Goering at treaty signing. Hitler & troops into Austria?? Anschluss.
Hitler speaking to huge crowd. Hitler at planning meeting in railway carriage.
13:13:51 POV along road of ruined equipment. Germans into Poland. Field of Polish prisoners. Women queue for food.
13:14:08 Hitler and Goering at military march past - goose-step. Map
13:14:23 Dunkirk, building burning, classic shot Dunkirk landings.
13:14:36 Hitler at French surrender in railway carriage at Compiegne.
German bombers. Blitz, London in flames, classic shot with crucifix.
13:15:01 Roosevelt signing lease lend bill. Lend-lease act. England & freight trains of supplies.
Headlines, Japan at War with US.
13:15:28 Blacks moving boxes from ships. Planes & supplies for D-Day. D-Day montage & beachhead; Dead German by roadside.
13:16:00 Tanks into Paris; crowds & aerials over Arc de Triomphe. Heavy bombing raids, strafing airfield & RR w/ explosions. Artillery firing Film damage at 13:16:28 Narrations runs out of synch from here on.
13:16:56 GIs crossing Rhine. Dead in concentration camps. Germans running to surrender; young boy crying. Swastika burning.
Picture ends 13:17:55 Sound runs to 13:18:30
Celebrations; VE day; WWII compilation. Europe.

1940s 220413 220413 220413 b/w Sd 04:24:01 - 04:34:00 Its Your America Part 3
Dramatizes how a penny takes on new meanings to a soldier as he learns the significance of its inscriptions and Lincoln's quotations.
American troops moving down muddy road. Two soldiers share bread by side of road. One, who was farmer before war, explains to the other the two heads of wheat on the penny. Talks of how the farmers in the Allied countries burned their fields and killed livestock to stop it getting into enemy hands.
04:27:07 Brief shots American troops enter Rome. England - buiild up of supplies for D-day - rations issued to troops. Battlefield church service. Soldiers board transport ships and aircraft. Convoys en route to France. Aircraft in formation. Naval ships firing broadsides. Troops down landing nets into landing craft. Good battle scenes montage.
04:31:08 Soldier on deck of ship as he returns to America. Talks of democracy, freedom and working together. Quotes Lincoln.

1940s LN 501-269
LN 501-269 LN 501-269 B/W SIL 16:09:47 - 16:13:01 [Instantaneos Internacionais - Truman at National Airport & Savings Bond Drive]
Truman W/ Acheson. Motorcade from airfield.
Flower wreath sign 'Make Today your D-Day: Buy United States Defense Bonds. Truman at mic. All-female audience.

1940s SN 501-015 220298 220298 B/W Sd 21:19:36 - 21:26:08
Jeep Undergoes Testing
Through water - over artificially made bumpy roads - army testing Jeeps over different terrains - floated across river on raft ? - jeep across river on wires - Jeeps loaded on board aircraft with troops - jeep towing glider - glider lands, jeep out - transport planes - jeeps over rough terrain - various military equipment - jeeps laying down smoke screen - used as ambulance carring wounded - floating jeep crosses river. Mass production of jeeps - jeeps transported by train - Jeeps used in parades and war bonb drives - Jeeps packed for shipment - D-Day convoy and landing ? - Jeeps used in South Sea Islands - North Africa - Egypt - General Stilwell - General MacArthur in jeep - Wendel Wilkie - King George and Queen Elizabeth in Jeeps - Roosevelt (FDR) in Jeep in Casablanca - Victory parade in North Africa. Cut short.

1942 - 1945 LN 501-253
LN 501-253 LN 501-253 B/W SD 18:18:53 - 18:25:50 Coast Guard at War - On French Shores Part 3
18:18:53 Normandy - D-Day June 1944. Ships fire, Men down nets, landing craft head for Utah beach. Troops wading through water.
18:19:38 Saipan, ships fire, landing craft, troops ashore.
19:20:21 South of France August 1944. Rocket ships firing, landing craft, beachhead.
18:20:57 Luzon Oct. 1944 Landing craft return to Philippines, men wade ashore.
18:21:42 Iwo Jima Feb. 1945 Ships underway, landing craft under fire. Wreckage of landing craft, rough seas. Medics tend to injured marine. LSTs unloading on beach
18:23:06 Okinawa April 1945 Rocket ships firing, explosion on land. Ships and military equipment unloaded. Troops advance up beachhead. Kamikaze pilots attack ships. Flak from anti-aircraft fire.
18:25:06 Montage, Naval fleet, bombers in formation flight, Hiroshima bomb. US flag raised on Japanese island.

1943 LN 501-225 220691 220691 B/W SD 03:10:08 - 03:19:50 The War 1941 - 1944 R6
1943 - Russian troops liberating Russia - Marshall Zhukov.
03:10:53 The Pacific - US naval task force. Ships firing on Pacific islands - tracer bullets. Aircraft strafing and bombing. Troops in landing craft - battle scenes on beach. Firing machine gun. Dead Japanese on Tarawa. Medic tending to wounded marine. US flag raised - US bodies floating in sea and on beach. Marching marines.
03:14:24 Cairo conference - Churchill, Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek pose for photos. Military top brass at meeting round conference table. Map of Pacific and Japan.
03:15:21 Tehran Conference - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin pose. Joint statement.
03:16:11 Yugoslav partisans singing and smiling. Marshall Tito smoking. French underground singing.
03:16:47 D-Day - montage leaving Britain. Animated map re attacks on Germany. Montage battle scenes in various theatres of war. 03:18:07 French undergrounduprising - man firing pistol - partisans with rifles - interior shot as one throws grenade from window. German military vehicle on fire - burning Germans out. Allies enter Paris - cheering crowds. Montage liberation shots across Europe. War graves. Dead Germans. Crying baby boy. US tank breaking through wall. Montage allied armies - allied flags.

1944 - 1945 220324 220324 220324 b/w Sd 02:49:50 - 02:58:42 Naval Workers Digest - Attack and Counter Attack (US battleships firing)
On board Air Craft Carrier. Plane unfolds wings. Newspaper headlines New York Times from attack on Pearl Harbor to 1945. Smoking chimneys - D-Day landings. Liberation of France, US troops march down Champs Elysee towards Arc de Triomphe. Belgium liberated, locals welcoming allies. Pacific. pan over store dump on Pacific Island. Troops boarding landing craft - ships at sea in heavy weather. On board Air Craft Carrier - bombers and fighters prepared for operations. Crews in briefing room. Crews board planes - take offs. Battleships at sea - Kingfisher target planes launched. Good shots Battleships firing barrage. Smoke shells. Troops on landing craft - landing and moving inland. Allied planes overhead. Troops moving into hills - destroyed Japanese gun emplacements. Engineeers battling with mud to beach heavy equipment. Enemy bombers in air. Aircraft carrier - Hellcat fighters take off - TBM in flight - Helldiver in flight - planes crashing into sea. Fleet under attack. Plane on board ACC in flames. Plane landing on deck. Ship on fire.

1944 LN 501-209 220661 220661 B/W SIL 08:20:06 - 08:30:49 D-Day Invasion of Normandy France - Storm
Waves breaking over concrete block ships and scuttled ships in harbor at Normandy, barrage balloons overhead, rough seas. Liberty ship in harbour. Other ships at anchor.
Enlisted man working his way across line between two ships - other men aid him aboard.
High waves breaking over block ship; craft in B/G. Various ships at anchor. LS Normandy beach with bomb craters and barrage balloons; PAN along coastline - shipping beached - vehicles underway on beach.
Coast Guard Rescue boat on beach; man walking in. Half-track with trailer in tow - beachhead activities. Overlooking beach, scuttled and floating craft. Line of troops coming up beach from water. Beach area ships; trucks in F/G. Wrecked LCMs in pile on beach. Beach area; men on beach.
08:26:57 Line of troops marching in full battle dress along road; ships in B/G. Shipping on beach.
08:27:43 Hospital ship underway in harbour - other craft underway also. Aircraft - B-24 landing on beach; barrage balloons overhead; shipping in harbor. PAN C-47 landing.
LST, with LCIs tied alongside; LST has damaged stern. MS English officer on deck of rescue boat.
MS C. G. officer on bridge of boat; PAN, of English officers on boat. Rescue boat entering harbour.

1944 LN 501-209 220661 220661 B/W SIL 08:31:03 - 08:39:21 D-Day Invasion Harbour after Storm - Unloading
Ships at anchor, barrage balloons, small boats and landing craft moving around. Equipment lowered by hoist into launch. Beachhead shot from ship. LS convoy of trucks heading fro beach. Military equipment being transported to beach. Beached and sunken ships and equipment. Dented hull of ship (US-497) Unloading crates. Small tanks off transport ship. Beached US-87. Wrecked ships and vehicles. Beachhead, troops, destroyed buildings. DUKW to shore.

1944 LN 501-209 220661 220661 B/W SIL 08:39:33 - 08:46:25 D-Day - Invasion - Shipboard Service
Catholic mass held for service men on deck of ship.
08:40:40 Ammunition lowered by cargo net into waiting landing craft. Soldiers down netting into craft. Brief shot men kneeling at religious service.
08:41:47 Troops boarding cameraship. Landing craft underway. Destroyers at sea. Two battleships. Three soldiers including two star general talking on deck of ship.
08.43.40 Small craft towards beach. Troops out of landing craft and wading through sea.
08:44:28 Machine gun nest. Field communication centre surrounded by sandbags. Machine gunner loading ammunition. Group of soldiers in sand dunes relaxing, some smoking, making coffee. GV Beachhead. Barge close to shore, troops in water. Bulldozers and trucks on beach.

1944 220188 181939 TRD / B/W 01:58:59 - 01:59:48 [Pre D-Day, PX Rations]
Men getting rations issued in front of field tent. Camel cigarettes, matches, candy bar, chewing gum.

1944 220324 220324 220324 b/w Sd 02:29:40 - 02:39:24 Normandy Invasion - D-Day + 3 - Good Quality
Deserted beaches - damaged buildings - tank traps on beach - damaged landing craft and military equipment
Flashback to January 1944 - Chesapeake Bay landing craft trials / exercises. Men boarding transport ships for England. Feb 1944 Convoys crossing Atlantic - below deck scenes troops relaxing, playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing. Man sewing uniform. March 1944 US troops arrive - training for landing operations - wading ashore on British beach. April 1944 LSTs and LCIs practice landing operations - Naval officers. May 1944 Allied bombing raids over France - bombs away. D-Day - 4 loading ships off Southern Coast of England - jeep loaded by crane. Last minute preparations, man welding. K rations loaded onto ship. D-Day - 3 Somewhere in Southern England troops embark on LCVPs for transport ships. Boarding transport ships. D-Day - 1Troops loaded on LCIs. Soldier on quay looking through binoculars. Housewife in back garden looking. Bombing raids over France. Priest carries out service in open air at port of embarkation. On board ship, Coastguard Officer briefs men - group of sailors including one black sailor. Ships moving out into Channel. Convoy - warships escort. Coastguard flotilla leaving port. Convoy at sea - barrage balloons. Troops on board ship loading machine gun. Shipboard activities - allied planes over. Below decks officers study maps of Normandy beachheads.

1944 220324 220324 220324 b/w Sd 02:39:25 - 02:49:18 Normandy Invasion - D-Day + 3
D-Day - Night shots bombers taking off - aircraft in flight formation - dropping incendiary bombs over France. Parachute regiments jumping from planes - sky filled with parachutes. H-30mins Battleships firing, men down landing nets into landing craft. Landing craft heading for shore under cover of Battleship fire. H Hour Landing craft stopped by under water obstacles, troops have to wade waist deep in sea for beach. Larger landing craft approach beachhead, troops waiting. H+65 min Aboard LCIs troops prepare to land - wading through water under enemy fire. LSTs out of enemy firing range waiting to move in. On the beaches, military equipment moving in. LCIs return to transport ships to ferry more troops inshore. LSTs unload supplies on to LCTs - military equipment off loaded. Rhino ferry carrying heavy equipment. Men driving jeeps off landing craft. Mass of troops on the beaches - military trucks. German troops now prisoners of war duck from incoming fire. Coastguard rescue boats searching for survivors - pick up man. Hospital ship, wounded carried on stretchers. Injured man on stretcher transferred to ship along with plasma transfusion drip. Crippled Coast Guard LCI - wounded removed for transfer to hospital ship. Stretchers lowered four at a time onto deck
02:45:40 Pan over beach head - damaged ships. Troops marching inland. LSTs landing cargo - trucks, tanks and military equipment. Barges built especially for D-Day on shore being unloaded. Night shots Anti Aircraft guns / Ack Ack firing at German planes. Day - Artificial harbours. (Mulberry ?) Bad weather, sea lashing against temporary harbour. Men transferring over water using rope to climb along. Damaged ships after storm. Landing barges move out into Channel loaded with German prisoners. POWs back in England board Coastguard transport ship ships at sea carrying POWs to America.

1944 220332 220332 220332 b/w Sd 15:55:24 - 16:11:13 D-Day Minus One
Treasury Dept trailer presented by Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles, Deputy Commander of the Army Air Forces, encourages war bonds sales.
82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 9th troop Carrier Command activities on June 5 and 6th 1944 Allied invasion of France.
Parachute and glider troops land behind German coastal defences in France on the day preceding the full invasion. Reinforcements arrive the following day.
US army preparation in small unnamed village in England immediately before the attacks, across the English Channel. Convoy on English road.
Reel 2
16:02:00: Troops play jazz music.
exercises, ball games etc... French money handed out to soldiers. Praying. Final inspection by Gen. Eisenhower. Troops smiling and waving to camera on way to plane. Putting on Indian face paint, Iroquois haircut. Planes take off. In formation across Channel. Paratroopers jump from plane, thousands in sky. Gliders landing in darkness. Shooting in field and ships firing broadside. Hundreds of British and US gliders on airfield in England.
Aerial views beaches of Normandy and of lands flooded to deter the invasion. Shows how fields were obstructed to wreck invading gliders. Wrecked gliders. US soldiers into French villages.
A Treasury Department trailer promotes war bond sales.
NB -Film damaged, goes out of focus at intervals. Good focus from 16:02:00

1944 220333 220333 220333 b/w Sd 17:34:30 - 17:50:40 D-Day Minus One
Treasury Dept trailer presented by Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles, Deputy Commander of the Army Air Forces, encourages war bonds sales.
82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 9th troop Carrier Command activities on June 5 and 6th 1944 Allied invasion of France.
Parachute and glider troops land behind German coastal defences in France on the day preceding the full invasion. Reinforcements arrive the following day.
US army preparation in small unnamed village in England immediately before the attacks, across the English Channel. Convoy on English road.
Reel 2
Good quality from here - Troops play jazz music.
Exercises, ball games etc... French money handed out to soldiers. Praying. Final inspection by Gen. Eisenhower. Troops smiling and waving to camera on way to plane. Putting on Indian face paint, Iroquois haircut. Planes take off. In formation across Channel. Paratroopers jump from plane, thousands in sky. Gliders landing in darkness. Shooting in field and ships firing broadside. Hundreds of British and US gliders on airfield in England.
Aerial views beaches of Normandy and of lands flooded to deter the invasion. Shows how fields were obstructed to wreck invading gliders. Wrecked gliders. US soldiers into French villages.
A Treasury Department trailer promotes war bond sales.

1944 220333 220333 220333 b/w Sd 17:42:32 - 17:50:40 D-Day Minus One
Treasury Dept trailer presented by Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles, Deputy Commander of the Army Air Forces, encourages war bonds sales.
82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 9th troop Carrier Command activities on June 5 and 6th 1944 Allied invasion of France.
Reel Two
Night shots - C-47 Planes take off. In formation across Channel. Paratroopers jump from plane, thousands in sky. Gliders landing in darkness. Shooting in field and ships firing broadside. Hundreds of British and US gliders on airfield in England.
Aerial views beaches of Normandy and of lands flooded to deter the invasion. Shows how fields were obstructed to wreck invading gliders. Wrecked gliders. US soldiers into French villages.
A Treasury Department trailer promotes war bond sales.

1944 220425 220425 220425 B/W SD 19:01:17 - 19:10:59 United States Coast Guard report: Normandy Invasion D-Day +3 - Part One
Normandy Invasion - D-Day + 3
Deserted beaches - damaged buildings - tank traps on beach - damaged landing craft and military equipment
Flashback to January 1944 - Chesapeake Bay landing craft trials / exercises. Men boarding transport ships for England. Feb 1944 Convoys crossing Atlantic - below deck scenes troops relaxing, playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing. Man sewing uniform. March 1944 US troops arrive - training for landing operations - wading ashore on British beach. April 1944 LSTs and LCIs practice landing operations - Naval officers. May 1944 Allied bombing raids over France - bombs away. D-Day - 4 loading ships off Southern Coast of England - jeep loaded by crane. Last minute preparations, man welding. K rations loaded onto ship. D-Day - 3 Somewhere in Southern England troops embark on LCVPs for transport ships. Boarding transport ships . D-Day - Troops loaded on LCIs. Soldier on quay looking through binoculars. Housewife in back garden looking. Bombing raids over France . Priest carries out service in open air at port of embarkation. On board ship, Coastguard Officer briefs men - group of sailors including one black sailor. Ships moving out into Channel. Convoy - warships escort. Coastguard flotilla leaving port. Convoy at sea - barrage balloons. Troops on board ship loading machine gun. Shipboard activities - allied planes over. Below decks officers study maps of Normandy beachheads.

1944 220425 220425 220425 B/W SD 19:11:00 - 19:21:09 Normandy Invasion - D-Day + 3 - Part Two
D-Day - Night shots bombers taking off - aircraft in flight formation - dropping incendiary bombs over France. Parachute regiments jumping from planes - sky filled with parachutes. H-30mins Battleships firing, men down landing nets into landing craft. Landing craft heading for shore under cover of Battleship fire. H Hour Landing craft stopped by under water obstacles, troops have to wade waist deep in sea for beach. Larger landing craft approach beachhead, troops waiting. H+65 min Aboard LCIs troops prepare to land - wading through water under enemy fire. LSTs out of enemy firing range waiting to move in. On the beaches, military equipment moving in. LCIs return to transport ships to ferry more troops inshore. LSTs unload supplies on to LCTs - military equipment off loaded. Rhino ferry carrying heavy equipment. Men driving jeeps off landing craft. Mass of troops on the beaches - military trucks. German troops now prisoners of war duck from incoming fire. Coastguard rescue boats searching for survivors - pick up man. Hospital ship, wounded carried on stretchers. Injured man on stretcher transferred to ship along with plasma transfusion drip. Crippled Coast Guard LCI - wounded removed for transfer to hospital ship. Stretchers lowered four at a time onto deck
19:17:23 Pan over beach head - damaged ships. Troops marching inland. LSTs landing cargo - trucks, tanks and military equipment. Barges built especially for D-Day on shore being unloaded. Night shots Anti Aircraft guns / Ack Ack firing at German planes. Day - Artificial harbours. (Mulberry ?) Bad weather, sea lashing against temporary harbour. Men transferring over water using rope to climb along. Damaged ships after storm. Landing barges move out into Channel loaded with German prisoners. POWs back in England board Coastguard transport ship ships at sea carrying POWs to America.

1944 220425 220425 220425 B/W SD 19:21:22 - 19:31:03 United States Coast Guard report: Normandy Invasion D-Day +3 - Part One
Normandy Invasion - D-Day + 3
Deserted beaches - damaged buildings - tank traps on beach - damaged landing craft and military equipment
Flashback to January 1944 - Chesapeake Bay landing craft trials / exercises. Men boarding transport ships for England. Feb 1944 Convoys crossing Atlantic - below deck scenes troops relaxing, playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing. Man sewing uniform. March 1944 US troops arrive - training for landing operations - wading ashore on British beach. April 1944 LSTs and LCIs practice landing operations - Naval officers. May 1944 Allied bombing raids over France - bombs away. D-Day - 4 loading ships off Southern Coast of England - jeep loaded by crane. Last minute preparations, man welding. K rations loaded onto ship. D-Day - 3 Somewhere in Southern England troops embark on LCVPs for transport ships. Boarding transport ships. D-Day - Troops loaded on LCIs. Soldier on quay looking through binoculars. Housewife in back garden looking. Bombing raids over France. Priest carries out service in open air at port of embarkation. On board ship, Coastguard Officer briefs men - group of sailors including one black sailor. Ships moving out into Channel. Convoy - warships escort. Coastguard flotilla leaving port. Convoy at sea - barrage balloons. Troops on board ship loading machine gun. Shipboard activities - allied planes over. Below decks officers study maps of Normandy beachheads.

1944 220425 220425 220425 B/W SD 19:31:04 - 19:41:13 Normandy Invasion - D-Day + 3 - Part Two
D-Day - Night shots bombers taking off - aircraft in flight formation - dropping incendiary bombs over France. Parachute regiments jumping from planes - sky filled with parachutes. H-30mins Battleships firing, men down landing nets into landing craft. Landing craft heading for shore under cover of Battleship fire. H Hour Landing craft stopped by under water obstacles, troops have to wade waist deep in sea for beach. Larger landing craft approach beachhead, troops waiting. H+65 min Aboard LCIs troops prepare to land - wading through water under enemy fire. LSTs out of enemy firing range waiting to move in. On the beaches, military equipment moving in. LCIs return to transport ships to ferry more troops inshore. LSTs unload supplies on to LCTs - military equipment off loaded. Rhino ferry carrying heavy equipment. Men driving jeeps off landing craft. Mass of troops on the beaches - military trucks. German troops now prisoners of war duck from incoming fire. Coastguard rescue boats searching for survivors - pick up man. Hospital ship, wounded carried on stretchers. Injured man on stretcher transferred to ship along with plasma transfusion drip. Crippled Coast Guard LCI - wounded removed for transfer to hospital ship. Stretchers lowered four at a time onto deck
19:37:27 Pan over beach head - damaged ships. Troops marching inland. LSTs landing cargo - trucks, tanks and military equipment. Barges built especially for D-Day on shore being unloaded. Night shots Anti Aircraft guns / Ack Ack firing at German planes. Day - Artificial harbours. ( Mulberry ? ) Bad weather, sea lashing against temporary harbour. Men transferring over water using rope to climb along. Damaged ships after storm. Landing barges move out into Channel loaded with German prisoners. POWs back in England board Coastguard transport ship ships at sea carrying POWs to America.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SD 01:00:06 - 01:08:15 D-Day - First Pictures Invasion of France
Airforces attack France. Bombers - bombs dropped on Normandy, Strafing RR and marshalling yards. Camera gun footage strafing German planes on ground.
01:01:26 England - US paratroopers board planes. General sees transport planes take off in dusk. Men board gliders. British gliders take off. Invasion fleet at sea. Ships bombard French coast. Troops down landing nets. Ship sinking. In landing craft as approaches beach. AV coast of Normandy. Troops out of Landing Craft, classic shot soldier killed as runs up beach. Beachhead scenes, troops under fire, injured on stretchers. Men wading through seas. Stranded landing craft. German POWs. Local with US flag. German wounded tended by medic. Americans in shelter of cliff have wounds tended. Mass bombing - bridge blown up.
01:06:05 Shell damaged house on beach. Heavy equipment moved in. Wounded US soldiers. German prisoners. US troops move inland, question German prisoners. Piles of German equipment. French locals help Americans with directions. GI talking to two children. Troops pose with Nazi flag.
01:07:26 General Eisenhower stands with Montgomery. Ike with Omar Bradley. Wounded arriving back in England.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SIL 01:08:24 - 01:18:16 D-Day - Pre Invasion Manoeuvres - Firth of Clyde, Scotland
Landing craft moving up the Clyde river - cliffs in background. Cargo ship with snow covered hills in bg. Landing craft underway. Soldier sitting on stern of landing craft. Good shot River with snowy mountains, landing craft in distance. Various craft underway, man making semaphore message from stern of leading vessel. Various shots craft underway in choppy water. Troops coming up landing nets of USs Bayfield. Various craft around USS Bayfield. Men up landing nets and ladder onto Bayfield.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SIL 01:18:27 - 01:28:13 D-Day + Crossing
Top shot as troops leave landing craft and board USS Bayfield (APA-33). Destroyer underway. Landing craft underway, coastline visible in bg. Landing craft heading for shore, Troops off landing craft
01:21:09 US troops climb landing nets onto transport ship. Various ships at sea, choppy seas. Convoy underway. Three officers, one USCG and two army, on deck of ship, Ship pulling transport raft loaded with men and equipment. (some out of focus) Various ships under way - very grey day.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SIL 01:28:21 - 01:40:10 D-Day - Preparations and Invasion 5th - 7th June 1944
US troops with battle packs going below decks of transport ship. Various shots boarding. Group of soldiers on deck of ship, one with binoculars. Woman in back garden of house looking through binoculars. Officer speaking to men, army and anvy on deck of ship.
01:31:35 Good shot convoy underway, US flag to right of picture flying from stern of camera ship. Various shots invasion fleet underway.
01:33:42 DUKW and other vehicles moving across sand (dark)
01:34:20 Beachhead scenes, troops move up beach. Some soft focus. Bulldozers, DUKWs and other vehicles moving around beachhead.
01:36:55 German soldiers marched along beach. POWs in barbed wire enclosure (soft focus)
01:37:29 POWs closer shots in wire enclosure.
01:38:04 Beachmaster with white flag. Troops off LCU, wading through water and up beach.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SIL 01:40:20 - 01:41:18 D-Day - Invasion Omaha Beach
Trucks and other military vehicles move off beachhead. Various vehicle movements on beachhead.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SIL 01:41:28 - 01:43:50 D-Day - Invasion - Capture of Isigny
Military vehicles outside small town. Town square with US troops, medic speaking to local woman and priest. Casualty on stretcher. Few locals in square.
01:42:10 Constructing temporary bridge. Cobbled street scene, fre US soldiers walking around. Military truck down road followed by jeep with Red cross flag. Bulldozer clearing rubble from bombed out house. Firebrigade - people looking at bomb damage. Vehicles and locals on bicycles cross temporary bridge.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SIL 01:43:50 - 01:48:18 D-Day - Invasion - 128th Evacuation Hospital, France
Military ambulances outside tents. Walking wounded arrive by ambulance, out and into tents. Stretcher cases into tents.
01:45:03 Interiors - unusable.
01:45:41 Sign Laboratory - medics sitting at microscopes.
01:46:06 Ambulances bring more wounded. Stetchers and walking wounded.

1944 220760
220760 220760 B/W SIL 01:48:30 - 01:57:43 D-Day - Unloading and Debarkation Operations off Omaha Beachhead
Loaded rhino barge heading for beach, top shot wounded in landing craft being transferred to ship. Various landing craft loaded with troops heading for beach. Jeep and trucks off craft. Rhino barge.
01:51:34 Wounded German prisoner lifted on stretcher onto ship. Wide shot beachhead area with barrage balloons and ships at anchor. Various ships moving around bay area. Smoke visible rising from shoreline. Concrete barge with mounted gun towed.

1944 220761
220761 220761 B/W SIL 02:31:40 - 02:38:19 D-Day - Towing and Placing Units of Artificial Harbours 8th - 10th June 1944
LS-MS Phoenix units being towed. MS Phoenix units towed to position for sinking. MS Gun crew at stations on Phoenix units.
LS LSTs approach beach.
MS Towing ship to position for sinking.
02:33:55 MS Liberty ship scuttled to form breakwater, ship smoking. MS Tug tows Phoenix unit-
02:36:28 MS Capt. Clark & Lt. Barton.
MS Tugs work on Phoenix units; units being towed into position, other units BG.1
MS Men work with lines on Phoenix units-
Mulberry Harbours.

1944 220761
220761 220761 B/W SIL 02:16:32 - 02:23:56 D-Day - Normandy Beachhead
Beached LCI, cliffs behind. LCI US 281, men looking over rail. Wreckage on beach. Two DUKW entering water. Transport ship off loading military vehicles, trucks, tanks and halftracks. Beachhead activity - fairly dark, almost silhouette.
02:19:38 Men repaiting ships propeller.
02:20:15 Captain Miles Imlay and Lt. Yonner of coastguards talking
02:20:34 Tank traps on beach. LCI on beach with hole in side. Men looking at damaged beached ships.
02:22:25 German POWs transported in landing craft - long line of men on beach. Men standing by rail of ship drinking coffee.
02:23:43 British LSR with rocket launchers

1944 220761
220761 220761 B/W SIL 02:25:10 - 02:31:34 D-Day + Pre Invasion - Loading Weymouth and Portland
Landing craft laoded with men. Landing craft alongside transport ship and lifted on board.
02:26:24 Military vehicles loading onto LCT, Pub Sailors Return in background. Halftrack boarding .
02:27:16 Military trucks move through wooded area. Top shot harbour with ships at anchor.
02:28:22 Loading half track onto landing craft, tailgate lifts watched by sailors on board. Supply ships. Line of Ambulances on deck of ship. Various loading activities.

1944 220762
220762 220762 B/W SD 03:17:36 - 03:25:59 True Glory Reel 3
On the Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe, 1944-1945. D-Day
Ships at sea, AV flying over coast of Normandy, Ground to air, planes carrying paratroops fly over. Interior plane, paratroops jump. Fleet at sea. Gliders towed and released behind beaches. Good shots ships nearing Normandy - on board activities. Big guns firing broadsides at Normandy coast. Aircraft over.. Very good aerial shot bombing French coastline, ships pounding coastline, soldiers into landing craft. Shots in British and American crafts as approach beaches. Boats hit the beaches and soldiers out, troops wading through water under fire.
03:21:27 Big Ben - Houses of Parliament, good street scenes London early morning and fairly empty. Brief shot of press briefing - reporters run from room, Newspaper headlines re invasion. Men and women on streets reading papers. Zipper sign re invasion. Sign re invasion day prayers.
03:22:02 Landing on Omaha beach - classic shot man killed. American troops on beach, some wounded and dead. German POWs. Naval ship burning. Medoc gives plasma transfusion next to cliff. Wounded tended to. US troops moving inland.
03:23:00 Germans firing guns etc. German Generals at meeting.
03:23:38 British troops landing at Gold Beach. Troops moving inland under fire , hedgerows, crawling across fields and digging in. Excellent shots British troops making slow progress inland - artillery firing etc.
03:24:36 Montgomery arrives on the beach. British and American troops moving inland. Various shots air support bombing and strafing. Beachhead activities, men looking at maps. Mass of US military vehicles and equipment off loaded, wounded taken on board landing craft. Mortar fired.

1944 220762
220762 220762 B/W SD 03:00:06 - 03:07:59 True Glory Reel 1
On the Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe, 1944-1945. D-Day
General Eisenhower introduces film, praising men of the services and teamwork.
Map of Europe, montage Hitler and Nazis. Coastal defences / West Wall, German officers. Good shots gun emplacements. Map, montage of possible invasion points which were rejected for various reasons. Normandy coastline.
03:04:01 USA - armament productions, London, British war workers. US trucks loaded onto transport ships. Montage military services. Survivors covered in oil are rescued from a freighter sinking in the North Atlantic.
03:05:20 England - Operations room, women putting markers on huge wall map.
03:05:39 US transport ship arrives in Liverpool, crowds on deck and below decks. Band playing as ship arrives and troops disembark. Montage brief street scenes in London - US servicemen sightseeing. other allied forces in London, various forces clubs. Good montage of single soldiers, men and women, of all nationalities on London streets. Exteriors various service mens clubs.
03:07:24 - Military training exercises. Obstacle courses, training landing on beach and scaling cliff face. Hand to hand combat.

1944 220762
220762 220762 B/W SD 03:08:06 - 03:17:26 True Glory Reel 2
On the Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe, 1944-1945. D-Day
Military training exercises. Training landing on rocks in rough seas and scaling cliff face.
03:08:45 Map. Germany - Hitler - German Generals with maps.
03:09:19 SHAEF HQ interior, high command meeting. Good night shots British bombers taking off towards cameras. Night and day bombing of Europe. Brief shot agent parachutes into France. One man submarine. Torpedo boats etc returning from Normandy with sand for analysis. Woman at microscope. Man putting camera into reconnaisance plane. Coast of Normandy. Still photographs glued together making relief map. Supplies dropped to French resistance.
03:10:31 Mulberry Harbour launched. Montage supplies readied and stockpiled, men innoculated, ships launched, radio listening for German transmissions. SHAEF HQ, meeting of high command.
03:11:11 Stalin. Roosevelt and Churchill pose after Tehran conference.
03:11:24 Eisenhower, Montgomery and others at wall map. Montage preparations. Montage aircraft bombing and strafing France including RR marshalling yards. Railway lines destroyed. German plane shot down. Map showing Normandy and South Coast of England. German coastal defences, German troops march, Officers at West Wall. Goering inspects troops.
03:13:22 Invasion convoys assemble at Southampton, mass movement of military trucks, troops and materials through countryside and small towns. Transport continues at night by rail and road. Tanks etc loaded onto ships. Troops boarding. British and US men waiting on ships in harbour. Barrage balloons, hills in background. Men briefed on deck and dockside. Aircrews briefed.
03:15::51 Flags run up on ship, officers boarding, torpedo loaded, King George VI on board, salutes sailors.
Signals made with lights. Anchors weighed. Engine room scenes. Convoy sets sail
03:16:44 Eisenhower with camouflaged troops - inspects.
03:17:02 Silhouette shots soldiers moving at dusk. Aircraft, nose paint "That's All Brother" . Planes take off, almost night.

1944 220762
220762 220762 B/W SD 03:26:05 - 03:35:56 True Glory Reel 4
On the Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe, 1944-1945. D-Day
British troops pinned down outside Caen, firing mortars, sheltering in hedgerows, aiming rifles. Soldier playing with cat. Firing machine gun. Wounded transported on jeeps. US Medics treat wounded in streets. Field hospital, nurses and doctors. Surgeon operating in tent. Blood dripping into transfusion line.
03:28:21 Mulberry harbour activities. Storm. Unloading ships.
03:29:12 Germans moving towards Cherbourg. Allied troops and planes moving inland. Troops sheltering in hedgerows. Troops moving through farmland, cows. French women giving soldiers wine. Street fighting on outskirts of Cherbourg - artillery firing. Cherbourg falls June 25th, General Von Shleben? . German POWs Ruins of Cherbourg harbour destroyed by Germans. Allies making repairs to harbour.
03:31:06 Arming of the Maquis, French resistance activities, firing machine guns. Resistance troops in the mountains holding up German convoys, Blowing up factories.
03:31:39 Oradour Sur Glane - German atrocity, buildings in ruins, dead bodies on streets and in fields. Destroyed church. Bodies under sheets laid out in street, women in graveyards.
03:32:14 Map Normandy detailing Caen. German troops firing artillery. Good sequence in silhouette of battle scenes, tanks across fields, buildings burning. Mass of aircraft fill the sky. Air support bombing around Caen. British troops move into Caen, bomb damaged buildings. Street fighting. Troops run house to house. Few locals on streets.
03:34:39 British and Polish troops moving up South of Caen, battle scenes artillery , tanks etc.
03:35:29 Map detailing St Lo. German artillery firing, Rommel?

1944 220762
220762 220762 B/W SD 03:40:26 - 03:48:00 The Fighting First Reel 2
On the 1st Infantry Division in World War II.
Training for D-Day invasion - loading onto transport ships. June 6th, allied ships bombarding French coastline. Firing broadsides. US troops down nets into landing craft. Troops landing on Omaha beach, classic shot of man killed on beach. US troops move inland through hedgerows and fields, battle scenes, digging in. Troops waiting in small town for 2nd outfit to arrive. Rest and relaxation, with the locals, helping old lady through rubble. Soldiers getting haircuts.
03:42:41 July 25th - Big bombing raid by allies, battle scenes, engineers dig up mines and clear roadblocks. Various shots troops moving forward on foot and in trucks, eating on the road . The Division enters Coutance, Mortain, Etampes, Meaux, and Soissons and enters Belgium. German POWs . Seigfried Line. Troops take communion - battlefield service. Troops battle for Aachen, 21st Oct. Aachen surrenders. White flag from window, tank rolls over Nazi flag.
03:45:15 Hurtgen Forest battle scenes - snow - big guns firing. Medic tends to wounded. Troops down muddy road.
03:45:54 Troops rest in Belgium before the Ardennes campaign. Battle of the Bulge. Troops move through snowy forests. The Division crosses Remagen Bridge and fights in Germany.
03:47:08 May 1945 at wars end 1st Infantry is in Czechoslovakia. CU faces. CU Infantryman at attention.

1944 220762
220762 220762 B/W SIL 03:48:10 - 03:56:32 Preparations for D-Day - May 1944
Supplies loaded onto truck and checked by US soldier. Camouflaged military equipment in fields. Soldier patrols. Truck arrives at supply depot and loads up. Camp - men queue and strip off for showers. (slightly fogged at edge)
03:52:11 Men using foam to fight heavy fire near residential homes. Flames in building. Firefighting. Oil cans? on fire. Bulldozer using earth to quell flames.

1944 220763
220763 220763 b/w SD 04:28:28 - 04:33:50 OSS Film - German Version of Invasion of Europe - D-Day R2
Various shots German anti-aircraft guns.
Caen, Airborne attack with Germans firing back, seen from ground perspective. Explosion as bombs dropped. Buildings destroyed. Downed plane burning. Monument in Caen.
French civilians in street in bombing aftermath. Refugees with bundles of belongings.
04:30:39 German divisions in camouflaged tanks on road. SS armed division in combat in field. Allied airborne troops arrested in field. CUs US artillery destroyed. Burning in distance. German wounded soldier carried. German armoured tank. Near Bayeux, combat including inside small village.

1944 220763
220763 220763 b/w SD 04:00:06 - 04:10:40 Eve of Battle Reel 1
On preparations for the invasion of France. D-Day
German coastal defences being built by slave labour. Gun emplacements and fortifications. German troops marching. Hitler meets Mussolini off aircraft. Brief Yalta conference.
04:02:01 Allied armies inspected by various. Allied high command meeting.
04:02:36 Shows planes attacking a German submarine. Supplies and equipment being handled at English docks.
04:04:02 Band plays as US troopship arrives in England. US troops march. Night shots, bombers on airfield. Various aircraft take off. Night bombing of Germany - good .
04:05:37 Military vehicles and equipment moved on British roads and rail. Supplies stacked and moved around the country, warehouse storage. Stockpiles of equipment - forklifts. Stacks of barbed wire etc. Steam trains, freight cars. Lines of tanks, trucks, jeeps. Huge supplies of shells / bombs. Ground crews working on aircraft.
04:08:09 Night - searchlight. Night firing of anti-aircraft gund. German plane downed. Barrage balloons, minelaying at sea. British minesweepers at work. Naval convoy.
04:09:02 Good shots Allied planes, bombers and fighters taking off. Bombers in formation. Flak. Cameragun footage, strafing, German plane downed. Daylight bombing of Germany.

1944 220763
220763 220763 b/w SD 04:10:50 - 04:19:06 Eve of Battle Reel 2
On preparations for the invasion of France. D-Day
Contrails in sky. Allied paratroop training - parachutes. Fighter planes taking off including Mustangs flown by Polish airman and Beacon bombers flown by the Lorraine squadron of the Free French. Mitchell bombers flown by Commonwealth pilots. Marauders flown by Americans. Planes flying low over Engish Channel. Bombing occupied France. Aircraft in flight formation. Good shot plane banks away from camera. Strafing airfields. Bombs dropping, flying through flak. Explosions on ground.
04:14:02. Docks in England filled with waiting ships and boats. Invasion rehearsals, troops boarding ships including American and British soldiers. Tanks and vehicles loaded onto ships. Landing craft underway. AV convoy at anchor. Night shots - soft focus, men down landing nets. Day various shots invasion preparations and exercises. Naval guns and rocket launchers blast coastline (Slapton sands?) Shots from beach as landing craft open and men run out. Good shots men running up beach under "fire" . Flamethrower used on bunker. Various "battle" scenes.

1944 220763
220763 220763 b/w SD 04:19:16 - 04:28:20 OSS Film - German Version of Invasion of Europe - D-Day
Calender 6th June, Newspaper headlines re Invasion, Germans buying newspapers. Map of England and Normandy. Various German messages sent by radio, morse code, signal lights etc. German soldiers at telephone switchboards. Alarm sounds at coastal defence underground installation, German troops running with guns. Germans man big guns on coast of France. Searchlights. Good shots night firing.
04:21:57 Night shots naval guns firing. Day, allied fleet off Normandy, German big guns firing.
04:24:00 Beach at mouth of River Orne - tank traps. Combat on land near village. SS division opposes allied division approaching shore. Allied landing boats on shore.
04:25:05 German tanks assault, some in camouflage. Destroyed allied artillery. US airborne troops captured and lined up. Destroyed British planes. Germans unload US jeep from wrecked plane. CUs British Canadian, Nova Scotia and other insignia on captured soldiers clothes, interrogated.

1944 220763
220763 220763 b/w SD 04:38:14 - 04:43:26 War Pictorial - Invasion of France - D-Day
Allied High Command looking at wall map. General Spaatz, Eisenhower and Air Marshal Mallory. British troops boarding transport ship. Massed supplies for invasion. Men boarding ships with bicycles. US troops boarding landing craft. Allied bombardment of Nazi occupied Europe. Planes with special striped markings on wings. Part of invasion convoy at sea. Various shots ships at sea. Cameragun footage allied planes attacking coastal defences. Various bombs dropped. Aerial views coast of Normandy. Beachhead scenes. German prisoners. General Montgomery landing on the beach , speaks with officer.
04:42:50 Evening Standard newspaper headlines Invasion of Europe begins, people buying papers off street vendor. Brief street scenes. Poeple looking up at overhead allied aircraft.

1944 3N-002 220408 220408 b/w Sd 01:18:34 - 01:20:46 Yesterday's Big Story - D-Day
Troops boarding ships for invasion. Ambulances, tanks aircraft. Eisenhower confers with Montgomery. Convoy crossing Channel. Allied airforces bomb France. Ground to air planes over. Interior aircraft - paratroopers jumping - mass of parachutes in sky. Ships firing guns as troops get into landing craft. Landing on beach - casualities.
01:20:29 Eisenhower - German prisoners of war - POWs.

1944 LN 500-001 220306 LN 500-001 B/W Sd 01:39:42 - 01:43:41 Gateway to Victory
Aerial view D-Day fleet - US troops out of landing craft - beaches. German prisoners. US aircraft dropping bombs - clearing air landing strips - Destroyed gun placements and dead Germans - Captured Germans. British troops advancing inland. Prisoners of War - prisoners onto landing craft and arriving in England. Aerial views Rome. General Clark watching troops marching into Rome. Bombed rail yards. - Poor quality, Incomplete

1944 LN 501-030 220288 220288 B/W si 05:00:01 - 05:08:45 WWII - D-Day - Preparations - Ship-Loading - Trucks
Backing truck & 37 mm gun onto LST. Other vehicles into ship. Pan over harbour & other ships loading. Men relaxing on dock; men on ship deck. Jeep & trailers into ship. Elevator raising jeep to deck. Many views of jeeps into ship from outside & inside. Elevator raising jeeps & men. Jeeps backed into place on deck.

1944 LN 501-030 220288 220288 B/W si 05:08:48 - 05:17:30 [WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Preparations - Loading Ships]
Date from card. Troops on shore waiting in front of buildings & Royal Albert Bridge Inn; looking at map. Bulldozer, jeeps. Men move into LCm with buildings behind. LCM drops door; men on board, door raised & LCM backs out. Dozer pushes LCP back into water. Dockmaster & other men looking at map. Men board other LCPs w/ bridge behind. POV out to AP w/ crowded bunch. Other ships. Men up nets to AP. Hoist lifting mortar from LCP onto ship.

1944 LN 501-030 220288 220288 B/W si 05:48:16 - 05:57:08 WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Preparation - England
US Paratroopers walk out of hanger w/ parachutes & bags & through barbed wire to planes. Loading C-47. Putting bundles beneath plane. Paratroopers to hanger; playing volleyball. Sorting goods on ground & assembling ??? in boxes. Men w/ life vest standing in front of tents. March off. Board buses. Slate 26 May 44. Testing equipment. Men smoking. Practising drawing pistol. Machine gun shown w/ knife mounted on side.
Jun 3rd 1944 Troops march to buses & boarding w/ full packs. Int. GIs smiling. Motorcycles & jeep leading convoy of buses. GIs out of trucks w/ parachutes. Man puts gear on ground & into bag. Fits reserve chute in. GIs march along road past camera; camouflage on helmets. Troops out of brush run past camera w/ rifles; march across field to tents etc. Slate 03 Jun 44. Truck back to plane & gear out of truck to underside of plane. Men inspect

1944 LN 501-030 220288 220288 B/W si 05:57:10 - 06:04:50 WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Preparations - Paratroopers - England
GI band playing outdoors. Baseball batted around by planes. 3 men sitting talking w/ medic or Chaplain who passes out cigarettes. Man writing V-Mail letter. (flaring). C-47s over. Men sitting talking & whittling, Chaplain arrives & gives them V-mail blanks. (flares). C-47s over. Slate 30 May 44 Aerial over airfield w/ planes & gliders. Slate 31 May 44. Men cleaning machine gun, mortars & sharpening machete. Paratroopers packing equipment. Men playing volleyball.
1944 LN 501-030 220288 220288 B/W si 06:04:56 - 06:12:08 [WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Preparations - Loading LSTs - England]
Half track backing & pulling trailer; MS into LST. Tank backing. Jeep past on road; w/ trailer into LST shot from inside. 2 jeeps on elevator & raising to upper deck. Slate 01Jun44. Upper deck of LST w/ half-track backing up. Trucks backing on. Deck of LST at beach & equipment on deck. Jeep backs up. Other equipment. LS of bay & soldiers at anti-aircraft guns around dock where ship comes in. Sailor & signal flags. Line of vehicles waiting to load. LST moving up the bay. US 532. Alongside dock. US 27 on other side. Barrage balloon over. Man directing traffic through town.

1944 LN 501-030 220288 220288 B/W si 06:12:10 - 06:15:20 [WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Preparations - Working on Jeeps]
Soldier painting vertical angle iron on jeep bumper. US flag put on window. Bolting angle to bumper. Jeep past camera. Man swing angle iron w/ hacksaw. Line of jeeps pulling away from side of road & past camera. Hand drilling bumper to attach angle iron. More of bolting. Sharpening cut at top (to cut wire?). CU of bolting.

1944 LN 501-030 220288 220288 B/W si 06:15:25 - 06:21:43 WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Preparations - Airborne & Gliders
2 US airborne infantrymen trade French currency. CU of hands & bills. Officer inspecting airborne troops. CU faces. Men packing boxes in ?? Man covering helmet, inspected. Troops play cards. Man getting haircut (flared) as guys laugh. Guys sharpening knives. Compass reading explained to group of men. Line of trucks, dozers pulling crates. Opening crates. Pulling past camera. Gliders assembled. Nose section carried forward. Tail section bolted. Wings attached to fuselage; struts added & glider pulled by tractor.

1944 LN 501-032 220451 220451 B/W SIL 21:49:07 - 21:59:22
[WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Bombing Missions]
Contrails of planes & view in early morning of bombers. Aerials of invasion beach. Bombers w/ contrails, CU of pilot, gunner, bombs dropping, much smoke from explosions. Aerial of beach area. Planes return. One bomber down in smoke. Machine gun. Parachutes seen & bomber starting down. Flak or ?? around chutes. Bombers over ships off-shore. Over land, bombs bursting. Bombs away dropping & bursting on edge of towns. (good shot) View of coast from bomber & planes headed other way. Rail yard being heavily bombed. Bridges being bombed. excellent footage shot a fairly low level

1944 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 B/W si 08:00:03 - 08:11:39 WWII - D-Day Crossing - Landing - POWs - Field Hospital
Date estimated. Landing craft of convoy enroute heavily loaded w/ trucks etc. Troops into LCMs, en route to beach, black (one) & whites. Dozer on beach pulling jeeps. Men standing about. Group of Black soldiers w/ guns eating in foxhole. Command post in front of German bunker. Sign: Minen. GIs inspect artillery & dead Germans; wrecked glider by road & in trees. Men move off fuselage off road. Graders making airstrip & P-37 lands. Large number of Germans marched to beach & in barb wire enclosure. Eating. Marching along beach & wading to LCT. (good shots). Field hospital & unloading wounded; treating w/ plasma; Nurses relaxing & eating. Cartons of cigarettes & coffee. Nurses rolling bandages; tending wounded on litters. Mongolian & Russian POWs from German army. Treating wounded back. Germans carry wounded. Journalist taking information. Wounded GI on litter; litters loaded onto ship from landing craft. Services on beach for dead by Chaplain on jeep. Black GIs in congregation. Artillery firing. Sign post for Carentan, GIs talking with French young women and giving sweets to children. Tanks pass at speed. Troops through village - French waving. Tanks down country lane. Sign St Mere Eglise - troops through welcomed - GI speaking with Gendarme - smiling and cheering by villagers.

1944 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 B/W si 08:21:20 - 08:28:23 [WWII - D-Day - Preparations - Loading LSTs & LCTs]
Backing army half-tracks into LST at Dartmouth. Line of vehicles in seen from inside & above. Tank backed into LCT, men on tank w/ elevated air scoop. Several LCTs loading side by side. Weasels in. Troops lined up and boarding. LCT backed into water.

1944 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 B/W si 08:32:06 - 08:41:04 WWII - D-Day - Towing Phoenix Units - Gliders Overhead
View from ship alongside Phoenix units (Mulberry Harbour) and barges alongside them with tugs. (good shots) MS of men on side of units. Commander Kit Kat w/ binoculars. Men on tug playing accordion & resting in sun. Deck scenes, men & dog mascot, formation of fighters over. Brit. Capt. Ellsberg & other officers. Tug moored to Phoenix, men tying up. Plane towing glider over; British officers watch. British Corvette underway. Tug pulls away from Phoenix unit. POV from tug, lines play out from rear. Ships name Dextrous - Tug playing out rope. Shots of Phoenix Unit being towed, various ships. LCIs pass.

1944 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 B/W si 08:41:10 - 08:49:05 [WWII - D-Day - Boarding LCIs - Rhino Pontoon Underway - LCMs]
LCT #493 docked, CO & men on board; lines pulled in & backed from dock. #491 beside & men throw lines. Men w/ packs boarding LCI #349. Backs out from dock & line thrown & next one pulled over to dock. #493 boarded by MPs (lost loop in camera). MPs on board take off packs. Rhino harbour in port with men on board & propellors turning. PB2Y in background. Pontoon unit string launched sideways from dock & flat barge come along to tow. Assembling Rhino sections on dock. Pulling strings together in the water & welding together. Blacks loading cartons on LCM seen from on board. Men watch; LCM backing away from dock.

1944 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 LN 501-032 B/W si 08:49:10 - 08:59:18 [WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Bombing Missions]
Contrails of planes & view in early morning of bombers. Aerials of invasion beach. Bombers w/ contrails, CU of pilot, gunner, bombs dropping, much smoke from explosions. Aerial of beach area. Planes return. One bomber down in smoke. Machine gun. Parachutes seen & bomber starting down. Flak or ?? around chutes. Bombers over ships off-shore. Over land, bombs bursting. Bombs away dropping & bursting on edge of towns. (good shot) View of coast from bomber & planes headed other way. Rail yard being heavily bombed. Bridges being bombed. excellent footage shot a fairly low level

1944 LN 501-033 220287 220287 B/W sd 09:00:15 - 09:08:30 D-Day Convoy
CU Ike. Map of France. Weapons & Equipment build up in England. GIs arriving. Training in south. Bombing Germany (good). Air battles. Moving to Channel; issued gas mask, life belt, cigarettes, candy, French money. Heavy equipment through streets. Briefing. Embarking. Loading ships. Infantry marching, boarding ships, men in landing craft to ships. Men relax enroute. Men briefed on shipboard.

1944 LN 501-033 220287 220287 B/W sd 09:08:32 - 09:14:28 D-Day Convoy
Paratroops by bus to planes. AV Aerial of convoy; bombing bridges; ships across. Planes & gliders readied. Pilots briefed. General Gavin with troops Religious services. Eisenhower (Ike) & airborne w/ 6th Pathfinder Units. Loading gliders, taking off. Ships bombarding coast firing broadsides - signallers; men off ships; gun camera of strafing RR & canals.

1944 LN 501-033 220287 220287 B/W sd 09:14:30 - 09:18:56 D-Day Convoy
Bombarding coast; troops offloading to assault boats. Bombing. Explosions. Troops running across beach. Wading ashore. Rescuing men from water. Cliffs, medics & plasma w/ wounded. Men off landing craft. British troops on beach. LCIs unloading. Bombers over.

1944 LN 501-043 LN 501-043 LN 501-043 B/w SIL 02:00:10 - 02:08:57 WWII - Invasion - D-Day - Preparations, Shipboard
Man repairing damaged LCVP. Welder at work. Loading Jeeps w/ drivers aboard ship into hold. LCVPs in water alongside ship. British Jeep lowered to deck. US jeep into hold. Man signalling winch operator. CU of winch operator. Lowering large engine into ??? Troops up gangway from landing boat, carrying stretchers, etc. Cameraman w/ tripod, men w/ rifles. Landing barge arriving at gangway. Line of boats waiting. Heavily loaded troops onto gangway. Men reviewing operation plans over large-scale map. W/ pointer. LS APs in bay.

1944 LN 501-043 LN 501-043 LN 501-043 B/w SIL 02:17:27 - 02:23:54 WWII - Invasion - Practice - England; WWII - Invasion - Actual?
Invasion Practice on English beach. Twin 40mm anti-aircraft crew firing. PA-26 underway at sea (single stack) signalling. Bow view. 02:18:42 LCVP loaded w/ troop stepping off onto gangway. LCPs anchored in background. Men up cargo net out of LCVP. Destroyer of the Livermore Class in smooth seas. Officer speaking into megaphone. LCTs underway toward beach. Onto beach. Tank w/ flotation dropping & firing. Jeep off. LCVPs up onto beach. LCI US 493 toward beach. Men up nets in full battle dress. LCVP pulls up along gangway. (may begin actual D-Day crossing). DE underway very slowly, task force & barrage balloons in background. 02:23:07 ships crossing channel

1944 LN 501-046 220286 220286 B/W si 01:00:00 - 01:05:37 WWII - Invasion - Normandy - Fox-Green Beachhead, Omaha 06 Jun 44] D-Day
Jeeps driving off LCT 659 through deep water. One stalls. POWs carry wounded; US Dead on beach beside. Men at foot of cliffs, carry wounded. View from landing craft w/ smoke along beach. POV from LCT w/ plane & troops on board. Beached ships. Large smoke ring above. Men off ship w/ plane wading ashore to cliffs. LS of smoking shore & boats. Rhino barge w/ cranes & ambulances. Men smoking in battle dress; bowed heads; Dozing or ?? POV from among men, anti-aircraft gun. Litter raising wounded from LCVP, other walking wounded helped aboard. More POV on LCT w/ plane.

1944 LN 501-046 220286 220286 B/W si 01:05:38 - 01:10:40 [WWII - Invasion - Preparations - Loading LCTs 06 Jun 44] - D-Day
British MP directing track vehicles pulling artillery & loaded w/ troops at intersection in road heading for loading point. Wheels as truck backed into LCT. View from piers. Trucks in, ramp raised & lines thrown off. Leaving from England. Convoy to dock area & other trucks loading. Intersection shots kids waving. CU man backing onto LCT 453.

1944 LN 501-046 220286 220286 B/W si 01:05:38 - 01:10:40 [WWII - Invasion - Preparations - Loading LCTs 06 Jun 44]
British MP directing track vehicles pulling artillery & loaded w/ troops at intersection in road heading for loading point. Wheels as truck backed into LCT. View from piers. Trucks in, ramp raised & lines thrown off. Leaving from England Convoy to dock area & other trucks loading. Intersection shots kids waving. CU man backing onto LCT 453.
D-Day

1944 LN 501-046 220286 220286 B/W si 01:10:40 - 01:21:45 WWII - Invasion - D-DAY - Channel Crossing - Ships
British crewmen on ship pointing to shore. View of shore; various ships. Large guns. Ships in convoy. Ships & barrage balloons. Ships with rocket launchers. Rhino barges. Heavily loaded US 49(?). Rocket barges. Landing craft; gale winds. Channel marker. Landing barges. Incomplete

1944 LN 501-046 220286 220286 B/W si 01:32:44 - 01:43:30 WWII - Invasion - Preparations - GIs Arrive England & Boarding] - D-Day
2-stack liner as transport offloading GIs & WACS. WACS & bagpipes. GIs & WACs into building & onto railway station; board cars, get chocolate or coffee. Train leaves. Truck convoy through countryside past tents along road. Men out of trucks parked by road. Aerial showing large tents along edge of road. Speakers shown w/ man talking into mic; men by tents; field hospital signs; mats to hold down mud. Camouflaged trucks & repair facility. Installing telephone lines, using. Accordion & GI band playing. Men filling trucks w/ Jerry Cans & convoy down road through town. Troops march through town w/ picks; waiting in line. Woman w/ box of doughnuts. Man passes out life-savers. Stacks of packs & boxes. Life-vests passed out. Landing barges loaded w/ boxes & men. Ships visible in harbour behind.

1944 LN 501-046 220286 220286 B/W si 01:43:43 - 01:53:09 WWII - D-Day Practice - Maryland, Scotland - Atlantic Convoy
Coast Guard transport & practising loading jeeps, bulldozers, troops into LCM & lowering into water. LCT w/ equipment underway away from ship. Line of ships, LCMs circling in practice & through water; landing onto beach. Backing out. Others on to shore & troops off. Feb44 Convoy across Atlantic; ships in line signalling; card playing on deck; men at rail; men in bunks on wall & watching card game on floor. Accordion, guitar & singing. Man sleeping in bunk, reading, writing, sewing pants, reading Coast Guard magazine. Radio room, telegraph operating. Loading cartridge belts. Ships. Arrival England by transport. Mar 44 Jeep loaded on ship, winch, boxes. troops. Landing craft practice off Scotland.

1944 LN 501-046 220286 220286 B/W si 01:53:12 - 01:59:13 [WWII - Invasion - Practice - Scotland & England, Mar & Apr 44]
Small freighter in harbour & landing craft unloading GIs w/ field packs & guns. 01:54:29 Off coast of England, troops disembarking from Coast Guard Transport, Invasion practice, troops landing. Unloading small boat, GIs down nets into LCM. Small boats in rough water, LCMs into beach. Apr44 Troops boarding LCI(?) Small boats in water practising; larger ships anchored; LSTs moving. Unloading truck from Rhino barge into LST. Beach & equipment practising unloading. 01:58:10 Coast Guardsmen marching into church services. Mail arrives from US, small boats bring to larger ships.
D-Day

1944 LN 501-082 220465 220465 b/w SIL 01:14:01 - 01:17:02 WWII - Post D-Day Memorial Service, Cherbourg Peninsula Cemetery
Service at cemetary with wooden crosses & freshly dug graves. Men at attention around edge as Chaplain speaks (MOS). Band, flag. Band playing. Gen. Bradley present. Wreath placed. Rifle salute fired. Bugler playing taps. Men break ranks & look at crosses. Indian or Japanese-American. CU band leader & players.

1944 LN 501-098 220527 220527 b/w SD 23:46:07 - 23:54:56 Army Navy Screen Magazine No 32
Normandy Invasion - D-Day
Invasion fleet at sea, bombers fly overhead. Closer shots ships. Naval officer speaking into microphone. Ships firing at coast of France. Men in landing craft heading for shore. Shots from inside landing craft as it hits the beaches. Shots from second landing craft. Shots on the beaches as allied forces come under fire. Men hit. Beachhead activity - men dig small trenches - arming grenades.
Troops carry wounded on stretchers along beach under shelter of the cliffs. Medics tend wounded - Plasma transfusion given. German prisoner given treatment. German POWs on beach. Fleet lying offshore - barrage balloons.
23:49:24 Ship flying four star flag. Eisenhower and Captain on board. General Omar Bradley climbs up landing nets to board ship. Montgomery piped aboard. Generals pose.
23:50:05 General Clark sitting on windowsill discussing map with other officers. 3rd June Rome - Germans fleeing - abandoned tanks. German troops on horse and cart leaving city. Lone German on bicycle leaving. AV German convoy on road out of Rome.
23:50:41 4th June - Americans enter Rome. Various signs Roma. Tanks and military vehicles on road. (Briefly out of rack) Crowds outside Coliseum welcome American soldiers. Scots guards playing bagpipes parade. Italian women and girls welcome troops. Various shots as 5th army move towards centre. Good CU happy faces of locals. Local girls riding on tank. Locals tear down German posters.
23:52:52 Crowds in St Peter's Square - Vatican. Pope Pius on balcony gives blessing. Church bells ringing.
23:53:31 France - sign Sant-Marcouf - American troops walking down country road. French locals, farmers and wives welcome soldiers. Soldiers relax on village street. GI talking to two small children. Soldier walks behind religious shrine.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SD 06:00:21 - 06:09:51 D-Day
General Eisenhower and his aides map the Normandy invasion standing in front of huge wall map. Slave labour used to build German coastal defences known as West Wall. Good shots fortifications - big guns pointing across Channel. Camouflage.
06:02:34 Tanks, guns, locomotives, and other military equipment is massed on the English beaches. Aircraft on airfield. Supplies in warehouses. Railway locomotives specially built to run on Continental RR. Naval ships waiting in ports fro invasion. Assault boats launched from transport ships.
06:04:27 Troops practice loading operations. Tanks and artillery loaded onto ships. Landing craft is tested in the English Channel. Fleet at sea in Channel. Me into landing craft. AVs ships and landing fleet. Animated map.
Pictures of practice landing and airborne operations are used to dramatize the actual invasion on June 6, 1944.
06.06.53 American bombers flying in formation - mass paratroop drop, sky full of parachutes. Landing craft heading for shore - artillery and rocket guns fired. Landing craft onto beaches - explosions - troops running. Good battle scenes.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SD 06:28:48 - 06:38:13 Invasion - D-Day
On screen explanation re compilation of material on D-day which has been taken from selected scenes provided by the various services.
June 4th 1944 Soldiers marching and military vehicles heading for ports of embarkation. British soldiers boarding transport ships. Ships leaving port. Mass of ships and boats in harbours of South coast. Military equipment loaded. US troops boarding transport ships. Allied aircraft in flight, night bombing of coast of France.
06.31.27 D-Day, fleet setting sail, CU rocket gun and anti-aircraft guns on board ship. Shipboard service. Men looking at photos of Arc de Triomphe. Ships underway, barrage balloons. Sailor doing message in semaphore. Ships underway. Sailor sends signal message. Men reading message from ?. PT escort boat.
06:33:54 England - Paratroopers walking to aircraft and boarding. Dawn shots aircraft taking off. Ship to air of planes overhead. Air to air, aircraft in formation.
06:35:21 Combined naval fleet in action, guns fired at shore. Gun casings piled on deck.
06:35:38 England - Aircraft lined up on field, AV gliders and tow planes on ground. Tow planes and glider s take off.
06:37:19 Troops down landing nets into landing craft. LS ship exploding. AV aircraft in flight. US destroyer Corrie sunk.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SD 06:58:28 - 07:08:36 Invasion Wounded - D-Day Related
Lifeboat pulling in to quayside. Soldier with arm in sling off boat. Group of American soldiers climb stairs to platform? Wounded carried on stretchers
07:03:27 Unid. woman from US press interviews two RN stokers (almost inaudible) about D-Day.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 06:14:05 - 06:15:05 Invasion - Gliders Leave England (INV 36)
Aircraft and gliders down runway. Planes and gliders overhead.
D-Day related

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 06:15:06 - 06:15:33 Invasion - Troops March to Ships for D-Day Embarkation (INV 36)
US troops down street watched by British policeman. Troops onto landing craft for transfer to transport ships.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 06:15:40 - 06:20:02 Invasion - D-Day Landings (INV 37)
Crossing Channel (out of focus up to 06:16:00) LS rocket ships firing. Small ships and landing craft at sea.
06:16:42 On the beach - wounded carried on stretchers. Troops in small groups under cliff face. Fleet from shore. Landing on the beaches, men run through sea - LS man shot and falls. Medics treat wounded. Medic treats German POW on beach. German prisoners. Casualty getting plasma transfusion. German POWs on beach. Americans dig in.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 06:20:12 - 06:28:39 Invasion - D-Day Landings (INV 37)
Ships at sea - Eisenhower on board ship.
06:20:27 Montgomery boards ship. USAF in flight over Europe, gun camera, dogfight, German plane explodes, strafing railway line and German aircraft on ground.
06:21:10 Landing crafts hit the beach - men out of landing craft. Men and military equipment ashore - troops wade through sea.
06:23:08 Camera gun, strafing railway lines, explosion. AVs gliders on ground. GV Gliders on grass, troops with bicycles. Troops out of landing craft, beachhead activities. LV Soldier shot as runs up beach. Troops into water as landing craft sinks. Burning German gun emplacement / bunker. German soldier up to neck in ground. Troops moving inland along RR line. Tanks up and past. US troops moving through small town. Dead. Bomb damaged buildings.
06:27:57 (Same as 1275) Patrol walking down street next to churchyard. Locals walking down road - old French man shakes hands with soldier. Armoured vehicle towing gun. Soldiers in ruins of Shrine / Church at Saint Marcouf. Two soldiers crouch behind wall of large house, one raises white flag on rifle. Patrol with German prisoner of war. Pile of confiscated helmets etc.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 06:38:23 - 06:49:28 Invasion - D-Day Related
Bomber through flak. Good shots bombs away over Europe. Explosion on ground. Aircraft in flight formation. Bombing bridges over river. CU bullets in gun turret. Bombs away sequence - explosions, good, fairly low shots. Aircraft in flight.
06:46:30 Planes return to England. Landing. Ground crew remove injured, onto stretcher and into ambulance. Damage to aircraft. Blown tyre, bullet holes.
06:49:18 Airmen walking to hut, bicycles lined up outside.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 06:49:39 - 06:58:17 Invasion - D-Day Related - 9th Division Advance
Road sign St Marie-du-Mont 1k, Carentan 11k. Troops head inland past gliders - down country road. MP directing military traffic. German POWs wearing tags marched down road.
06:51:20 12th June - Aircraft overhead, glider coming in to land.
06:51:51 Slate 11th June - Red Beach - 9th Div. moving to front. Troops carrying rifles marching down country road past glider - legs and feet marching.
06:52:58 German POW explains artillery and points out bullet holes to American soldier. Tow truck towing German truck to staging area. Aircraft and gliders overhead. US troops and military trucks including ambulance advance. German POW explaining artillery to GI.
06:56:18 Men clearing out papers etc. from glider on ground. GI gives V for Victory sign.
06:56:43-47 Black spacing. Troops down road past sign St Marie-du-Mont 1k, Carentan 11k. Rear view as troops enter town, three young locals giving V-sign. Smiling women on doorsteps. Pan down church tower to troops passing. German captured artillery.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 07:08:45 - 07:13:07 Invasion - D-Day Related - Vehicles Loaded Aboard Landing Craft
Two men on board ship, one with binoculars, US flag flying. Military truck backs onto ship. Soldiers on decks - soldiers cleaning rifles. Military vehicles winched on board. Heavy vehicles loaded.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 07:13:08 - 07:15:22 Invasion - D-Day Related - Evacuation Hospital
Interior field hospital tent - surgeons operating. Medical. Doctor preparing patient. Operation in progress,

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 07:15:23 - 07:16:23 Invasion - D-Day Related - Medical Aid in the Field
Wounded soldier being given transfusion - group of troops gathered round tree while treatment given.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 07:16:24 - 07:17:30 Invasion - D-Day Related - Battlefield Burial
Army Chaplain reading prayers over grave in field.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 07:17:31 - 07:18:38 Invasion - D-Day Related - First Aid in the Field
Three men relax and have cigarette under tree - injured man helped to drink. Medical team administer aid.

1944 LN 501-208 220660 220660 B/W SIL 07:18:50 - 07:26:59 Invasion - D-Day Related - Assault Training
US Troops manoeuvre military trucks and equipment, artillery. Jeep, field guns. Soldiers practice driving trucks through narrow gaps. Troops drill on beach, practice loading into landing craft. Landing craft take to sea. Various shots landing craft manoeuvering and hitting beaches.

1944 LN 501-209 220661 220661 B/W SD 08:04:29 - 08:09:56 Invasion of France- D-Day
General Eisenhower and his aides map the Normandy invasion standing in front of huge wall map. Allied leaders, General Spaatz and Air Marshal Mallory. British and allied troops board invasion ships. US troops march to landing craft. Allied planes bombing Nazi occupied Europe. Invasion fleet at sea. German coastal defences bombarded by allied aircraft using rockets. Bombs away over France. AV coast of Normandy. POV from inside German gun emplacement of beachhead. Medic tends wounded. German prisoners. General Montgomery landing on the beaches of Normandy.
08:09:18 England - Newspaper headlines, Evening Standard "Invasion of Europe Begins". People reading newspapers - buying paper from news stand. Milkman looks up as planes fly over. Policemen look up at aircraft. Montage people looking up.

1944 LN 501-209 220661 220661 B/W SIL 09:14:00 - 09:24:50 D-Day - Invasion - Omaha Beach after Storm (Arc card 21st June 1944)
Sunken, beached and damaged shipping. Temporary bridge buckled in sea. Wrecked military vehicles still on scuttled landing craft. Damage to pontoon. Beached ships, ruined supplies. Sailors clearing up - British sailor from HMS ? American soldiers cleaning up beach, moving oil drums and cans. Scuttled ships, one still making smoke. Wreckage on beach. Soldier looking out to see, small craft at anchor. Sea breaking on pebbles of beach. Rough sea, waves crashing. Top shot beachhead activity and sunken ships.

1944 LN 501-210 220662 220662 B/W SIL 10:42:23 - 10:52:03 D-Day, England
Officer looking at map with medic. Jumpy tracking shot passing long line of American military vehicles parked on side of country road. Road signs for military. Jumpy tracking shot past covered tanks in field
10:43:26 Stretcher carried to waiting ambulance. Piles of personnel effects? uniform boots, helmet. Grenades and bullets. Brief shot black soldier talking to truck driver.
10:44:33 Men leaning on rail of ship. Naval ship in harbour. Launch entering harbour.
10:45:37 Wounded carried on stretcher. Various shots wounded on stretchers. Bodybag. RN sailors carring stretchers. US Soldiers carry stretcher - medics.
10:46:41 US Military truck and tank through small town street. Abbey printing works on corner.
10:47:07 Black driver sitting at wheel of truck. Truck loaded onto transport ship by crane.
10:47:48 Tank through small town watched by few locals. Convoy heading to coast - jumpy tracking shots. Convoy into dockyard.
10:49:58 G-A formation of bombers overhead. Good shots convoy of military vehicles through small town.

1944 LN 501-210 220662 220662 B/W SIL 10:52:21 - 10:58:50 D-Day, Normandy, Beach Activities
GVs beachhead - ships at anchor - barrage balloons. German POWs marching in one direction, US troops in the other. Bulldozer on beach. Small craft at sea. LS aircraft overhead. Naval activity. Raft carrying supplies in heavy seas. Top shot deck of landing barge with men and vehicles. Unloading vehicles. Beached ship smoking. Floating debris.
10:58:22 German prisoners. Troops on beach cleaning rifles.

1944 LN 501-210 220662 220662 B/W SIL 10:59:05 - 11:06:42 D-Day, England - Invasion Tanks Move to Coast
Troops in field go to tanks, instructions and given maps. Vehicles leaving. Tanks and military vehicles pass group of cheering women or schoolgirls as they pass in convoy down tree lined road.
11:03:29 Men chalking slogan on tank. "Berlin or Bust" and "Goodbye Old England". Jeep & men check watch, move out.
11:04:44 Convoy passes three young women in uniform who wave, past thatched cottage. Convoy down country road and through small town, boys wave. Tanks in convoy past fields. Telegraph wires.

1944 LN 501-210 220662 220662 B/W SIL 11:06:56 - 11:10:05 D-Day, England - Preparations for D-Day, Issuing Rations
Camp - US troops queue by tent to get invasion rations - tins of food, lifebelts etc. Various shots men carrying supplies away. CU man inflating lifebelt. Inflatable lifebelts being sorted outside tent. Group of men with rations on cart. Pile of lifebelts.

1944 LN 501-210 220662 220662 B/W SIL 11:10:07 - 11:11:09 D-Day, England - Preparations for D-Day, Officers Meeting - SBS coverage
Officers seated round long table, planning meeting ? Unid. Officer walks into office and takes seat at desk.

1944 LN 501-210 220662 220662 B/W SIL 11:11:10 - 11:14:21 D-Day, England - Troops Boarding Ship and Crossing on USS Barnside
Troops march toward camera. CU of heads & helmets. Ship from water & men climbing netting on side. USS Barnside at D-Day invasion. View of other ships, men at guns. Men checking batteries, packing equipment, CU life ring labeled draft dodger. Helping man up rope net. Loading ship with cargo net & stacking boxes. Men sitting on deck, listening, smoking,

1944 LN 501-210 220662 220662 B/W SIL 11:14:33 - 11:25:03 Pre D-Day Tanks, Trucks & Preparations
Tent city. Men loading equipment & camouflaging. Convoy of jeeps, trucks, tanks thru woods on small road. Men check chart, CU of arm band "TPN Corp USA". Officers making notes. Pouring from jerry cans into funnel near Weymouth at fuel dump. Ambulance & trucks past. CU of jerry cans labeled oil, diesel, petrol, kerosene.
11:19:54 Tanks from trees onto country road past MP.
11.21.08 Interior truck ? underexposed and unusable.
11:21:52 OK from here. Removing camouflage from tanks. Men salute & discuss, trucks past camera. Men march from tents to tanks. Undoing camouflage netting.

1944 LN 501-211 220663 220663 B/W SD 12:33:43 - 12:39:38 German Newsreel - D-Day
Newspaper headlines re 6th June. German civilians read newspapers re Allied invasion. Map showing British Isles and coast of France. German aircraft - brief night shot boat signals - communications, radio operators - man tapping morse key - telephone switchboard, German soldier raises alarm - troops at the double grab rifles and run up stairs. Night shots German troops man defences on West Wall fortifications. Anti-Aircraft guns fired - ack-ack. Tracer bullets - searchlights. Activity on board German ship. Explosion as allied ship hit.
12:37:40 Next morning - from the beach of allied ships - big guns fired out to sea. British ships return fire. Big guns loaded and fired. German artillery fired. Gun emplacements. Tank traps on beach. Germans firing artillery and using flamethrower. Machine guns fired.

1944 LN 501-211 220663 220663 B/W SD 12:39:48 - 12:50:48 German Newsreel - D-Day Reel 2
Machine guns fired from cliff emplacements. Flamethrower. German troops inspect beached landing craft. Camouflaged German tanks moving up. German tanks fire guns. German troops fire machine gun. Explosion. German soldiers run through field. Tanks moving down country road. Parachute in treetop. Wrecked glider / plane. Dead US pilot. US and British prisoners marched along road with hands on head. German soldiers looking at cloth map taken from prisoner. Wrecked gliders and planes in field, CU shots. Germans take jeep out of crashed US aircraft. Canadian prisoners - CU insignia North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Canadian Parachute Battalion. Prisoners, some with injuries questioned by Germans. Insignia Green Howards. Germans with captured personal effects - pay book. Pan down line of miserable looking prisoners.
12:44:07 German soldier looking at sky through binoculars. Anti-aircraft guns fired. Bombers over Caen ? Explosion on ground - ack-ack. German looking through strange binoculars / periscope ? Allied plane shot down. Bombs falling on houses. Vapour trails in sky. US bomber on ground in flames.
12:45:51 Bomb damaged town with very tall monument still standing. Refugees - women and children carry belongings. Bombed city centre, German military trucks on street - refugees with belongings on cart. German tanks on road. German tanks across field infantry in wheatfield. Artillery fired. Germans with captured allied prisoners. Germans inspect wrecked US tank and military equipment.
12.48.29 SS officer and troops driving through field. Panzers and infantry through field. US troops carry wounded comrade. German troops running through town, throwing grenades, firing machine gun. Rocket guns fired.

1944 LN 501-211 220663 220663 B/W SIL 12:50:51 - 12:53:07 D-Day Invasion - [M-4 w/ Dozer Blade Through Hedgerows]
M-4 tank with dozer blade clearing hedge row; seen from several angles. 3rd Armored Division. Men into tank from several angles. Start up and go at hedge row.

1944 LN 501-211 220663 220663 B/W SIL 12:53:14 - 12:56:42 D-Day Invasion - Omaha Beachhead - Relaxation July 1944
Ships with barrage balloons overhead & military men tumbling on beach. In swim suits. Large landing ships approx. 50 yards off shore. Men swimming. Men blanket tossing each other. Man misses. Run into water & tussle.

1944 LN 501-211 220663 220663 B/W SIL 12:56:49 - 12:59:30 D-Day Invasion - [45th Evac. Hospital - Capt. German Nurses]
Captured German nurses out of tents at 45th Evac hospital. US German Nurses. US Medics. Pose for photos; walk off; one waves away camera. Seen eating in tent. US nurse talking with them. CUs. Another shot of them walking out of tent. W/ US male medical officer; into officers mess. Pouring evaporated milk into coffee.

1944 LN 501-211 220663 220663 B/W SIL 12:59:46 - 13:11:09 D-Day Invasion - [D-Day Crossing - Church Services - Deck Activity & Preparation]
Priest giving catholic services on board small ship during D-Day channel crossing. Navy men singing. Men praying. Men briefed on board w/ chart & pointer held up in wind. Pointing to Utah Beach area. Men playing cards, sleeping & reading on deck. Reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Men waiting in line for bathroom on deck. Men oiling their boots & guns. Sailors manning guns. Ships around. Men shaving. Freighter with barge of equipment along side. Men with telescope & binoculars. Men painting cartoon on side of ship. Camouflaged ships. Ship burning. Man sick over side of ship. Anti-aircraft gun crew. Men looking at map. Wake of ship w/ 2 men. Anti-aircraft gun firing.

1944 LN 501-253
LN 501-253 LN 501-253 B/W SD 18:26:01 - 18:36:05 Coast Guard at War - Normandy Invasion Part 1
D-Day + 3, June 9th 1944.
Deserted beaches - damaged buildings - tank traps on beach - damaged landing craft and military equipment
Flashback to January 1944 - Chesapeake Bay landing craft trials / exercises. Men boarding transport ships for England. Feb 1944 Convoys crossing Atlantic - below deck scenes troops relaxing, playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing. Man sewing uniform. March 1944 US troops arrive - training for landing operations - wading ashore on British beach. April 1944 LSTs and LCIs practice landing operations - Naval officers. May 1944 Allied bombing raids over France - bombs away. D-Day - 4 loading ships off Southern Coast of England - jeep loaded by crane. Last minute preparations, man welding. K rations loaded onto ship. D-Day - 3 Somewhere in Southern England troops embark on LCVPs for transport ships. Boarding transport ships. D-Day - 1Troops loaded on LCIs. Soldier on quay looking through binoculars. Housewife in back garden looking. Bombing raids over France . Priest carries out service in open air at port of embarkation. On board ship, Coastguard Officer briefs men - group of sailors including one black sailor. Ships moving out into Channel. Convoy - warships escort. Coastguard flotilla leaving port. Convoy at sea - barrage balloons. Troops on board ship loading machine gun. Shipboard activities - allied planes over. Below decks officers study maps of Normandy beachheads.

1944 LN 501-253
LN 501-253 LN 501-253 B/W SD 18:36:06 - 18:46:26 Coast Guard at War - Normandy Invasion Part 2
D-Day - Night shots bombers taking off - aircraft in flight formation - dropping incendiary bombs over France. Parachute regiments jumping from planes - sky filled with parachutes. H-30mins Battleships firing, men down landing nets into landing craft. Landing craft heading for shore under cover of Battleship fire. H Hour Landing craft stopped by under water obstacles, troops have to wade waist deep in sea for beach. Larger landing craft approach beachhead, troops waiting. H+65 min Aboard LCIs troops prepare to land - wading through water under enemy fire. LSTs out of enemy firing range waiting to move in. On the beaches, military equipment moving in. LCIs return to transport ships to ferry more troops inshore. LSTs unload supplies on to LCTs - military equipment off loaded. Rhino ferry carrying heavy equipment. Men driving jeeps off landing craft. Mass of troops on the beaches - military trucks. German troops now prisoners of war duck from incoming fire. Coastguard rescue boats searching for survivors - pick up man. Hospital ship, wounded carried on stretchers. Injured man on stretcher transferred to ship along with plasma transfusion drip. Crippled Coast Guard LCI - wounded removed for transfer to hospital ship. Stretchers lowered four at a time onto deck
18:42:44 Pan over beach head - damaged ships. Troops marching inland. LSTs landing cargo - trucks, tanks and military equipment. Barges built especially for D-Day on shore being unloaded. Night shots Anti Aircraft guns / Ack Ack firing at German planes. Day - Artificial harbours. (Mulberry ?) Bad weather, sea lashing against temporary harbour. Men transferring over water using rope to climb along. Damaged ships after storm. Landing barges move out into Channel loaded with German prisoners. POWs back in England board Coastguard transport ship ships at sea carrying POWs to America.

1944 LN 501-304
LN 501-304 LN 501-304 B/W SD 13:45:20 - 13:54:53 D-day - Mulberry Harbour
Testing of breakwaters & concrete barges. Mulberry Harbour, Portsmouth, Southampton, England.
LS Mulberry harbour. Men climbing on top Mulberry harbour; pulling towing ship towards mulberry. Mulberry moves into sea.
LS Shipyard? and construction. Mulberry harbour moves at sea towed by ship. Men on Mulberry. Opening valve and water rushing in. Measuring marks.

1944 LN 890-001 220298 220298 b/w Sd 22:20:08 - 22:21:38 Admiral Stark and Normandy Convoys
Admiral Stark on bridge of ship. D-Day convoys heading for France. Floating docks towed to beach head area. Troops on deck get last minute briefing. Landing of reinforcements - troops down rope ladders into landing craft. Shots of beach head area. Troops wade through sea to shore. Good top shot crowded landing craft. Incomplete

1945 220274 220274 182739 TRD / B/W Sd/Si 04:44:26 - 04:51:16 Title: Germany Gives Up. Truman at desk speaks announcing German surrender.
04:45:11 Crowds in streets cheering; Wall street & ticker-tape. Packed Times Square & people waving flags.
04:45:39 Heavy devastation in Europe. Bodies; Prisoners. Prison camp. 04:46:02 Hitler & marching Naziis in various situation. 04:46:16 Goosestepping. Tank traps. Hitler & troops into ?? Hitler speaking to huge crowd. German troops advancing. Siegried (?) lne w/ anti-tank stones. Hitler planning, into Austria or Czech. Troops greeted. Hitler speaking & more advancing.
04:47:12 POV along road of ruined equipment. Field of German prisoners. 04:47:5? Hitler at French surrender. German bombers. Aerial of burning London.
04:48:22 FDR signing bill. England & trains of supplies. Blacks moving boxes from ships. Planes & supplies for D-Day. D-Day montage & beachhead; Dead German by roadside.
04:49:20 Tanks into Paris; crowds & aerials over Arc de Triomphe. Heavy bombing raids, strafing airfiled & RR w/ explosions. Artillery firing;
04:50:20 GIs crossing Rhine. Dead in concentration camps. Germans running to surrender; young boy crying. Swastika burning. Celebrations; VE day; WWII compilation. Europe.
World War II compilation

1945 220329 220329 220329 b/w Sd 11:31:53 - 11:36:54 Don't Be a Sucker - Part 2 of 2
Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice.
Nazi flag hoisted. Various Germans reading newspapers. Farmer ploughing, shop closed down, man in munitions factory. German convoy, motorcycle convoy, panzers.
German unemployed worker joins Hitler's Storm Troops, bids goodbye to wife and child. German troops in field, on vehicles, firing guns. Nazi defeats at battle at El Alamein, Stalingrad, D Day in Normandy, building with swastika, swastika bombed. Defeated germans walk with guard.
Dead soldiers. Hungarian man lectures man about liberty, minorities, tolerance.

1945 220333 220333 220333 b/w Sd 17:17:10 - 17:25:45
Two Miracles - Phantom Harbour - D-Day landings
Film Communiqué, 16th Issue.
Ships, troops and equipment used for Normandy invasion. On floating harbours used in the Normandy invasion. Shows a floating breakwater being towed in the Channel; and floating bridges, steel four-poster piers, breakwaters incl. aerial view, and scuttled vessels used as port facilities on the Normandy coast. Aerial view and map floating harbour. Setting off dynamite. trucks, tanks and troops down ramp. A storm lashes a floating harbour, harbour damaged. Troops resting, eating, smoking.
WWII

1945 220425 220425 220425 B/W SD 19:41:30 - 19:50:23 Naval Workers Digest - Attack and Counter Attack (US battleships firing)
On board Air Craft Carrier. Plane unfolds wings. Newspaper headlines New York Times from attack on Pearl Harbor to 1945. Smoking chimneys - D-Day landings. Liberation of France, US troops march down Champs Elysees towards Arc de Triomphe. Belgium liberated, locals welcoming allies. Pacific. pan over store dump on Pacific Island. Troops boarding landing craft - ships at sea in heavy weather. On board Air Craft Carrier - bombers and fighters prepared for operations. Crews in briefing room. Crews board planes - take offs. Battleships at sea - Kingfisher target planes launched. Good shots Battleships firing barrage. Smoke shells. Troops on landing craft - landing and moving inland. Allied planes overhead. Troops moving into hills - destroyed Japanese gun emplacements. Engineeers battling with mud to beach heavy equipment. Enemy bombers in air. Aircraft carrier - Hellcat fighters take off - TBM in flight - Helldiver in flight - planes crashing into sea. Fleet under attack. Plane on board ACC in flames. Plane landing on deck. Ship on fire.

1945 220469 220469 220469 B/W SD 03:09:22 - 03:17:09 V-E Day Special
Times Square night celebrations superimposed with headlines. Cinema marquee with sign "War's End - Nazis Out!". Hitler rally and speech. Animated map showing German invasions. Hitler smiling. Burning town in Belgium? Holland? Blind man walks with stick. British troops evacuated at Dunkirk. Churchill in street with others. 03:10:47 London burning. 03:11:14 Stalingrad Tanks and explosion, German troops in snow, street fighting, German POWs. 03:11:30 FDR and Churchill Atlantic Charter Conference. Troopship full of US troops. 03:11:56 Tunisia: desert fighting and German POWs. 03:12:13 Italy - Abbey of Cassino bombarded. Rome and crowd at Collosseo / Coliseum. Pope Pius at St Peter's cathedral and crowds below.
03:12:40 Tehran conference with Stalin, FDR and Churchill. Planes dropping bombs on Germany. 03:13:16 Liberation of Russia - Russian troops in snow in white suits. Germans sabotage railway line as they retreat. Russian civilians on road as houses burn on roadside - apocalyptic. Eisenhower and Montgomery planning. 03:14:02 D-day landings. Allies troops through French towns cheered by crowds and kissed by women. Ike in Paris and American troops parade under Arc de Triomphe. 03:14:49 Yalta conference. 03:15:00 Battle of Germany - night bombing. Street fighting. Hitler and Mussolini. During war. Illustration Mussolini's execution. Hitler visits victims of assassination attempt. Protestant?, Catholic and Jewish religious ceremonies. Military cemetery. Pacific war battle scenes. Japanese plane shot down. Map of route to Tokyo. Truman. MacArthur with Nimitz. Troops run. Fleet. Planes in formation. US flag.

1945 LN 501-192 220643 220643 B/W SIL 05:17:09 - 05:27:12 Victory in Review
Titles over shots Japanese fighter plane being shot down.
Crowds celebrating VJ Day in Times Square - Zipper sign re Japanese surrender. Huge crowds. Sailor does jitterbug with young girl.
05:18:16 Battleship West Virginia firing broadsides. Artillery crew firing 155mm howitzer. Pacific - Kamikaze plane - flak - Japanese plane crashes into sea. US troops land on Pacific Island - US soldier using flame thrower - Japanese soldier runs from foxhole in flames. Montage battle scenes.
05:19:16 Animated Map showing German and Japanese incursions. Formation of C-47s taking part in D-Day operation. Paratroopers - mass parachute drop over Normandy. Gliders landing one tips up on nose. Shooting down German planes including FW-190 and strafing Messerschmidt M-109 on airfield. Camera gun footage strafing installations - railways etc. Good explosions.
05:23:08 Squadron of A-20s in flight - flak - engine of plane catches fire, pilot ejects. Bombs dropping on German city - good bombs away at fairly low level. Saturation bombing of RR marshalling ya