Allied troops preparing for D-Day, the actual invasion on 6th June 1944 and its immediate aftermath.

British troops on deck of troopship looking at RN 15-inch gun monitor HMS Roberts anchored a short distance away. Troopship with Scottish troops from the 51st Highland Division sleeping on deck, lining up to receive cans of tinned food and a hot meal and bread and eating their food on deck: Scottish soldiers on deck reading the official British Army handbook on France. Formation of single seat fighter planes flying overhead. 01:01:05 Eve of D-Day (5th June 1944)  Fairmile launch backlit by the setting sun off the English coast: sunset over a flotilla of invasion craft, with an infantry landing ship on the right of the frame. Allied warships off the invasion beaches on D-Day bombarding German coastal defences beginning with RN cruisers HMS Hawkins and HMS Belfast and a rocket ship or LCT screened by an RN S- Class destroyer firing rocket salvoes. The evening of D-Day showing formations of C47 Skytrain tugs towing troop-carrying Horsa gliders towards their LZ in Normandy 01:02:15 RN destroyer screening a rocket ship as it fires rocket salvoes at the enemy defences. RN cruisers and destroyers HMS Hawkins @01:02:25 bombarding shore targets - SWORD Beach and from 01:02;53 to 01:03:14 GOLD Beach. US PT boat at soeed patrolling the “Mason Line” on the lookout from fast German torpedo boats in the English Channel. A series of big underwater explosions as an onshore minesweeper catches German seamines off UTAH Beach . 01:03:55 Royal Navy seaplane carrier and two RN destroyers, the nearest a Hunt-Class destroyer L26 off JUNO Beach (Bernieres-sur-Mer): a panning shot starting with the RN cruiser HMS Diadem over a mass of cargo ships and invasion craft off JUNO or GOLD Beach. 01:04:22 D-Day plus One showing British troops transferring from troopships into invasion craft: a 15-cwt truck and Morris Quad artillery tractor from a Liberty ship into a tank landing craft off JUNO Beach. 01:05:07 JUNO Beach showing British or Canadian troops transferring onto a small infantry landing craft (LCI ) and an assault landing craft (LCA): men packed into the tank deck of an LCT (LCT-2073) wave at the camera as it reversed away: a tugboat assisting a small infantry landing craft with a smashed bow. 01:05:55 Both ends of the Norwegian destroyer HNMS Svenner dunk by a German torpedo early on D Day poiking above the water, with several RN minesweepers nearby in the background. US Navy LST-395 arriving off GOLD or JUNO Beach with British ambulances and trucks on its top deck, numerous other invasion craft flying barrage balloons in the background. 01:06:02 An unsteady panning shot starting with  LCT gunboat armed with two 4.7-inch guns anchored off JUNO Beach to reveal the shoreline in the background (westward from Beenieres-sur-Mer (. 01:06:35 (AFPU - O’Neill) Reinforcements (1st Norfolks) have difficulty disembarking from an infantry landing craft in the rising tide on Queen White Beach at La Breche/Hermanville-sur-Mer 8-9am D Day. 01:06:45 (AFPU - Parkinson) A tracking shot from a truck being driven off an LCT onto GOLD Beach. 01:06:52 AFPU - O’Neill) a 6-pounder anti-tank tractor on fire after being hit by German mortar or shellfire on Queen White Beach circa 9pm D Day; transport belonging to various 3rd British Division units jammed up against the top of Queen White Beach waiting for s Beach Exit to open up as the tide comes in; men trying to drag a 6-pounder anti-tank gun over an SBG bridge laid over a German anti-tank ditch. 01:07:09 A brief panning shot from the bluffs overlooking OMAHA Beach next to the E1 Exit Road. Two assault craft converted into water ambulances being secured to the shore on JUNO Beach (D plus One). 01:07:17 Panning shot over a mass of invasion craft on the high tide line  on EASY RED Beach as US Beach Group troops set about clearing up the mess (late morning D Day). 01:07:24 D plus One showing US Navy engineers (Seabees) dug in behind sandbagged emplacements at the top of UTAH Beach: views of an abandoned German 7.7cm field gun and a 7.5cm PAK 40 anti/tank gun in exposed firing emplacements on the top of a section of UTAH Beach 01:07:45 (AFPU - Bill Grant) a view through the firing embrasure of a concrete gun position overlooking a stretch of JUNO Beach, with tank landing craft and a single small infantry landing craft stranded by the low tide and tank landing ships anchored offshore in the background, filmed D plus One. 01:08:01 German prisoners in US custody on UTAH Beach and digging slit trenches along the German seawall for the Seabees. (AFPU - Bill Grant) scenes filmed on D plus One showing an entrance to s German Widerstandsnest or coastal defence position and the bodies of German soldiers of 716-Infanterie-Division killed fighting Canadian troops on D Day. 01:08:41 (AFPU - Bill Grant) exterior of the German gun position seen from 07:45 to 08;01,showing damage caused by close-range gunfire. D plus One showing General Sir Bernard L Montgomery, Allied ground forces commander, and some of his staff officers arriving on board a DUKW amphibious truck of 633 GT Company RASC on JUNO Beach.abd conversing with the CO of the Beach Group in charge of MIKE RED Beach.