WWII - 1944, Invasion of France

WWII - 1944, Invasion of France MS barrage balloon moved into place on landing strip in France. 07:19:29 08Jun44 First C-47 landing on new strip; casualties loaded from ambulance to plane. MCU, nurses, others. More C-47s arrive. MCUs, loading wounded German prisoners & French civilians. 07:20:47 C-47 taking off, in air; interiors, English nurse giving blood transfusion. 07:21:24 LSs, American dead on litters, lined up on beachhead beneath cliffs. CU, reading identification tags. 07:21:42 Infantry thru village. LSs, CUs, German prisoners being herded along road. 07:22:07 MS General Hap Arnold, Gen Carl Spaatz, Lt Gen Lewis B Brereton & Maj Gen R Royce in jeep. 07:22:17 First ambulance planes arrive in England; wounded unloaded, examined. CU, Negro troops carrying litter cases to ambulance. MCUs 07:23:36 12Jun44 AV cargo planes fly over English Channel, France, drop chutes. CU, American Mustang fighter planes start up, take off; attack & hit two-motor German bombers. CUs, German plane drops belly tank, another plane hit, pilot bails out. 07:25:06 GSAP sequence: Strafing enemy airdromes & planes on ground. GSAP, Focke-Wulf 190 hit as it takes off, hit in air & bursts into flames. 07:26:47 Sequence: bombing railroad installations; strafing locomotives. 07:27:04 Aerial from above of B-26 Marauders covering invading fleet & beachhead, over town & cratered fields. B-26s dropping bombs on ground installations. Good explosions. 07:29:56 The End. WW2 Normandy Invasion Aftermath; Army Air Force; AAF;