Titles “Office of Strategic Services

01:00:03 “Office of Strategic Services OSS-263 01:00:16 A good daylight shot of Allied bomber formations in flight high in the sky 01:00:42 Transmission of reports alerting the German armed forces that the Allied invasion is underway. 01:00:56 Iside a fortress that would have existed only in Cherbourg and Le Havre and nowhere on the D Day invasion beaches themselves showing German soldiers rushing along underground passages to grab their rifles and manning a large calibre (28cm?) cannon inside a protected firing emplacement. 01:01:31 Nighttime sequence showing searchlight piercing the night sky, gun flashes from flak cannon and tracer rounds fires from a quadruple 2cm flak cannon and a single 3.7cm flak cannon, bigger gun flashes from 8.8cm and 12.8cm flak cannon and explosions from Allied night bombers as they crash into the ground. 01:02:03 Nighttime ground action sequence showing a descending flare, keen-eyed German infantrymen cocking an MG42 light machine-gun and working the bolt of a Mauser Kar 98K rifle and a blizzard of gun flashes. 01:02:25 A sequence cobbled together ffrom the stockshot library purporting to illustrate a nighttime sortie by German torpedo boats into the English Channel and engaging the enemy invasion fleet with guns, ending with  a big explosion from a direct hit on an enemy vessel. 01:03:16 A good daytime sequence purportedly filmed on D Day showing German  artillery observers in reinforced concrete bunkers peering through binoculars and views of some of the Allied invasion fleet (as seen through telephoto lenses from east of the Orne estuary). 01:03:35 German shore batteries in action, big explosions and Allied warships under shellfire is culled from the German newsreel’s own stock shot library 01:04:31 Reinforced concrete artillery observation bunker and a German artillery spotter peering through his binoculars. Orne Estuary showing British Invasion craft off SWORD Beach and invasion obstacles on the beach in the foreground. 01:04:45 Spurious library shots showing a super heavy coastal gun position and  flamethrowers in action. 01:04:49 Good but quickly-cut shots of German anti-tank and light field artillery cannon in coastal firing positions in action 01:05:00 A brief but useful shot showing the firing embrasure of a gun bunker similar to WN64 as the gun fires 01:05:02 A short sequence showing German infantrymen firing MG34 light machine guns and standing in a firing pit firing rifles A heroic-looking SS panzer-grenadier NCO. 01:05:22 ?D plus One showing men from 711. Infanterie-Division examining an abandoned Higgins boat and landing craft (LCM) washed up on the beach east of the Orne estuary and a mass of debris washed up onto the shore by the prevailing westerly sea current. CU heroic-looking German Army soldier. 01:05:42 D plus One showing 7.5cm and 10.5cm  Sturmartillerie built on captured French Hotchkiss H-39 tank chassis moving up to the frontline in the Orne bridgehead and a battery of Lorraine 10.5cm leFH18 self-propelled guns belong to 21. Panzer Division’s artillery regiment on pre D-Day manoeuvres and firing their guns with cutaways featuring explosions and smoke from dhrllbutstz and fires. 01:06;07 Genuine combat footage filmed probabky on D plus One showing a Hotchkiss H-39 10.5cm leFH18 self-propelled gun in action against units of the 6th Airborne Division in the Orne bridgehead near Ranville. 01:06:19 Sturmgeschutz III moving slowly across country, German infantrymen dashing across open ground and explosions and smoke. 01:06:31 Marder I 7.5cm panzerjager or tank hunters camouflaged with tree branches and grenadiers in camouflaged combat overalls move up to the front: a Marder III 7.5cm panzerjager passes the wreckage of a Horsa glider by the road side: an Allied parachute snagged by tree branches: more wrecked Horsa gliders and the bodies of Allied airborne soldiers lying amongst the splintered wreckage. Four British paratroopers make their way down a slope in a wood with their hands raised. 01:07:09 After D Day showing a line of British prisoners being marched along with their hands clasped behind their heads and are made to face their captors: prisoners with injuries sitting on the ground. 01:07:27 An unsteady panning shot filmed on a telephoto lens showing British Horsa gliders on a landing zone in the Orne bridgehead: wrecked and abandoned Horsa gliders lying behind the German lines and German soldiers recovering a jeep from an abandoned Horsa glider and test driving it. 01:08:22 CU of soldiers from the 3rd Canadian Division and 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and British paratroopers in German custody. 01:08:37 D plus One or shortly after showing an SS NCO examining the paybooks of Canadian soldiers from the North Nova Scotia Highlanders captured after D Day by 12. SS Panzer Division “Hitlerjugend”.: a score or so if prisoners from various units in the 50th Tyne-Tees Division.