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WWII - 1944, France: D-Day Invasion, Crossing, Landing, POWs, Field Hospital, French Villagers

Reel Number: 220451-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France,Germany,USA

Location: Carentan, St-Mere-Eglise, Normandy,St. Marie-Du-Mont

TC Begins: 21:00:06

TC Ends: 21:11:39

Duration: 00:11:33

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, France: D-Day Invasion, Crossing, Landing, POWs, Field Hospital, French Villagers POV on ship w/ army trucks & troops, among many ships & barrage balloons overhead. MLS on board & other ships. Troops into LCMs, en route to beach, Black (one) & White soldiers. LS coast, smoke. GOOD. 21:01:27 Bulldozer on beach pulling jeeps, men standing about. Group of Black soldiers w/ guns eating C rations in foxhole. 21:01:46 Command post in front of German bunker. CU Sign: Minen. Aka Land Mines. MS Generals Bradley & ??. GIs inspect artillery beside road; MS dead Germans; wrecked glider by road & in trees. Men push fuselage wreckage off road. 21:02:42 Road graders leveling for airstrip & P-38 lands on dirt strip. Large number of Germans marched to beach & in barb wire enclosure eating. Marching along beach & wading to LCT. (good shots). 21:04:14 Field hospital & unloading wounded; treating w/ plasma; Nurses relaxing & eating. Cartons of cigarettes & coffee. Nurses rolling bandages; tending wounded on litters. 21:05:30 Mongolian & Russian POWs from German army. Treating wound on back. Germans carry wounded on stretchers. 21:06:10 Journalist taking information. Wounded GI on litter; litters loaded onto ship from landing craft. 21:06:51 Services on beach for dead, Chaplain speaking from on jeep. Black GIs in congregation. Mass; taps; graveyard w/ markers. 21:08:52 Artillery firing. GIs look at sign: St Marie-Du-Mont 1.4 km; Carentan 11.3 km. GIs talking w/ French young women & giving sweets to children. DUKWs & tanks pass at speed. Troops thru village - French waving. Tanks down country lane. 20:10:34 Sign St Mere Eglise - troops thru greeted / welcomed; POV past houses; MP directing traffic. GI speaking w/ Gendarme thru translator (MOS). CUs French natives / villagers smiling & cheering. WW2; Military Funeral; Prisoners of War; Advancing; France; NOTE: Partial or all sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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