US Army camp in southern England following D-Day.

“INV. 134” “166th Signal Photo Co. GAU #6 Cameraman T/4 W. f. Snowden’s Subject: After “D” Day Date 6-9-44 Roll 2 01:00:10 Deserted US Army pre-D-Day holding area (for 2nd US Armored Division bear Warminster?)  down a tree-lined road lined by empty semi-circular corrugated iron ammunition bunkers: a sign “Tanks Second Gear” erected bear big corrugated iron vehicle shed and a deserted parade ground: sign"Speed 6 M.P.H 35 Motor Pool” close to the  double roofed shed: inside the empty shed. 01:01:15 Long lines of tents and  camp beds up-ended onto one another with an inscription in one of the tents “Berlin Bound”; a view from a barbed wire fence into the empty holding camp the deserted tents. 01:02:14 US Airborne Division's sector of the Allied beachhead in the Cotentin peninsula including wrecked German armoured fighting vehicles “INV. 141” Views of a US glider landing zone behind UTAH Veach showing abandoned CG5A Waco Hadrian and British-built Airspeed Horsa troop-carrying gliders in pastures lined by trees and hedgerows. 01:03:14 GI standing watch over an abandoned German Panzer III tank as two combat engineers attaching  a small explosive charge to the panzer’s left hand side caterpillar track and dashing from it to take cover (two takes): a pause before the charge goes off, enveloping the whole are in smoke and dust to reveal a broken track on the panzer’s left hand side. 01:04:08 Busy road bridge on the outskirts of a town in Normandy, probably Carentan guarded by an airborne sentry showing an M5 High Soeed artillery tractor towing a 90mm anti-aircraft gun, a White tractor and caravan trailer unit and the US paratroopers riding on a captured German NSU Kettenrad half-track motorcycle. 01:04:45 Three senior US Army commanders sitting on a bench and conferring over map boards on the banks of a river, the one in the middle is Major-General Maxwell D Taylor, commander of 101st Airborne Division. 01:05:30 Carentan shortly after its capture by 101st Airborne Division on 12th/13 June 1944 showing US troops in one of its main streets and airborne signallers laying a telephone cable, fixing it to the the balustrade of a shop and testing the line. 01:06:35 Major-General Maxwell D Taylor arriving by jeep in Carentan and meeting two of his subordinate commanders (note the “Screaming Eagle” shoulder flash on their jackets) and walking along a street with other airborne officers (Taylor has armed himself with an M1 carbine). 01:07:10 Centre of Carentan showing US troops helping to clear up the ruins of a building, a town crier beating a drum for a few excited local inhabitants, a paratrooper on horseback armed with an M3 sub machine-gun known as a “Grease Gun” brings in two enemy soldiers (probably former Red Army soldiers forced to fight in the German army) into Carentan and a well-dressed local man standing alongside the town crier and reading out either an Allied news bulletin or a US Army proclamation. 01:08:05 GIs examining a knocked-out Marder III Ausfuhrung H self-propelled gun (a German 7.5cm PAK 40 anti-tank cannon on a modified Czech-built Panzer 38 chassis) and the bodies of one of its two gunners lying in its open-topped gun compartment and several more bodies lying on the ground nearby 01:08:26 Local French inhabitants in a street in Carentan as a column of US vehicles consisting of an M4 Sherman tank, several M31 armoured recovery vehicles, an M3 half track towing a 57mm anti-tank gun and a GMC truck motor through the town. Soldiers handing out cabs of tinned food to French civilians including children and an old woman. 01:09:46 END