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WWII Post-D-Day - Normandy Beachhead & ship wreckage

Reel Number: 220761-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France

Location: Normandy

TC Begins: 02:16:32

TC Ends: 02:23:56

Duration: 00:07:24

WWII Post-D-Day - Normandy Beachhead & ship wreckage Slate. Beached LCI, low cliffs behind w/ antenna visible. LCT US-281 w/ bow doors open, men looking over rail. Wreckage on beach. Two DUKW on beach entering water. DUKW past w/ medics. LCU (?) off loading military vehicles, trucks, tanks & half-tracks. Beachhead activity - fairly dark, almost silhouette. 02:19:36 Men on sand repairing ships propeller. 02:20:12 Captain Miles Imlay and Lt. Yonner of Coast Guard talking 02:20:32 Tank traps on beach. LCI on beach with hole in side. Men looking at damaged beached ships. 02:22:23 German POWs transported in landing craft LCU, US-541 past camera; long line of men on beach. Barge of ambulances alongside ship. Men standing by rail of camera boat drinking coffee. MCU. 02:23:40 Camouflage painted British LSR with rocket launchers WW2; Prisoners of War; USA Navy; France; 1944; Jun44;

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