WWII - 1944, D-Day Normandy Invasion US 7th Corps 05Jun44

01:00:04 Flotilla of tank landing ships (LSTs) and attack transports belonging to Force U heading across the English Channel. British troops and the vehicles on the top deck of an LST. An LST convoy en route for Normandy on the cameraman’s port beam. 01:00:29 US Navy PT boat overtaking an infantry landing craft (LCI) and the cameraman’s own vessel and the battleship USS Nevada leading a line of warships belonging to the Western Task Force and a single subchaser immediately astern. 01:00:41 Attack ship (possibly USS Bayfield (APA-33)) showing GIs on the starboard side of its forward cargo deck next to an M29 Weasel amphibious carrier and an off-duty US Navy sailor sleeping on a shelter deck. 01:00:59 Looking astern at the large warships in the Western Task Force and an LST flotilla with s subchaser  immediately astern. Battleship USS Nevada and (behind it) the heavy cruiser USS Quincy and other warships in the Western Task Force. 01:01:09 On board the attack transport USS Bayfield showing US gunners manning an Oerlikon 20mm cannon and conversing off-duty on deck and Major-General J Lawton Collins, commander of the 7th US Corps, in conversation with a senior US Navy commander on USS Bayfield’s bridge. 01:01:29 Oerlikon gunner on board the USS Bayfield reading a summary of General Eisenhower’s proclamation to all Allied troops taking part in the invasion of France. Note: this sailor could be the famous baseball player Lawrence P “Yogi” Berra who served on USS Bayfield on D Day. Warships of the Western Strike Force astern of an attack transport abc from a smaller vessel (probably an LCI), with a subchaser fairly close astern. 01:01:49 Early on D Day showing of the US battleship Nevada off UTAH Beach bombarding German shore defences as invasion craft (LCMs) head towards the shore, the forward 14-inch gun turrets on either USS Nevada  or USS Texas bombarding shore targets. 01:01:58 On board USS Bayfield showing GIs belonging to 4th Infantry Division (8th Brigade) making their way down netting into an LCVP pitching up and down in the rough seas. 01:02:20 USS Barnett (APA-5), another one of Force O’s attack ships. Small US invasion craft heading through choppy waters towards UTAH Beach as USS Nevada bombards German shore defences. 01:02:44 Leeward side of an attack transport (USS Bayfield?) showing an M29 Weasel amphibious carrier being lowered into an LCM pitching up and down in the rough seas. A distant view of invasion craft heading towards UTAH Beach past an RN armed trawler. 01:03:10 LCVP foundering after it has been holed beneath the water line and its crew of four men leaping fir safety as it sinks beneath the waves and then are seen being plucked out of the water by the crew on board another invasion craft. RN and US tank landing craft heading towards OMAHA Beach. 01:03:59 US troops and vehicles disembarking onto UTAH Beach at low tide mid-afternoon on D Day showing a Beach commander guiding an unseen landing craft to a suitable disembarkation point by waving a flag and DUKWs, a bulldozer and GIs coming ashore from US LCT-594 and trudging across the sand and two DUKWs returning to the beach vis the main vehicle exit from UNCLE RED Beach. 01:05:03 Two lines of GIs heading inland from UTAH Beach via the main beach vehicle exit past a GI standing guard over this location next to a dump for engineering equipment. Line of German prisoners being marched along the beach at low tide and waiting inside an improvised prisoner cage for transfer to England amid the activity all around them. A line of DUKWs motor along the Beach past GIs heading in the same direction towards the main beach exit on UNCLE RED Beach.