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WWII - 1944, France Invasion: Allies Land In France (D-Day)

Reel Number: 220474-29

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944,1940s

Country: Canada,England,France,Germany,United Kingdom,USA

Location: Area of Bayeux & Cherbourg,English Channel,Normandy,Southampton?

TC Begins: 13:47:15

TC Ends: 13:56:13

Duration: 00:08:58

WWII - 1944, France Invasion: Normandy Title. 13:47:25 Allies Land In France (re Second front - D-Day) 13:47:41 Bombers over France; drop smoke bombs & others. Road junction area hit; bridge hit by precision bombing (GOOD). 13:48:16 British troops on road in South of England; British, Americans & Canadians embarking. Fleet at sea w/ barrage balloons above; on way to France. Eisenhower talks w/ other military VIPs. Transport plane takes off before dawn, paratroopers embark. Gliders take off, towed. 13:49:57 Strafing Nazi shipping in French canal. 13:50:26 Convoy across English Channel; aerials w/ planes below. Aerials French coast. Planes in flight (GOOD). 13:51:24 Troops into landing craft & ashore under fire; landing seen from aboard craft. Aerial of landing ships. Troops fall under enemy fire on beach. 13:53:04 Stormy weather, rough seas. Troops w/ wounded under cliff. Equipment brought ashore in rough water. Bradley, Eisenhower, Montgomery on shipboard. 13:54:04 Low-flying footage of air attack on railroad; train blows up. Troops in field; behind cemetery; talking to French man in beret. 13:54:56 Column of Nazi POWs; surrender of Germans on beach after landing. Ragged troops hold up Nazi flag. 13:55:21 Wounded disembark in Britain & tended by Red Cross. Air assault on German air base - Nazi plane explodes. The End - Join the Fighting 5th - Buy War Bonds 1940s; Battles; WW2 Fighting; Invasions; Normandy;

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