WWII - 1944, USA Government Newsreel: United News - D-Day! (w/ Slapton Sands footage)

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1943 / 1944, France: West Wall, D-Day Preparations in England & Slapton Sands Rehearsal Ftge Titles. 06:00:40 General Eisenhower, other officers & his aides view wall map of Europe; MCU English Channel & the Normandy invasion area. 06:00:58 Slave labor digging, used to build German coastal fortifications / defenses aka West Wall. Pan big guns pointing across Channel under camouflage; troops lifting netting & raising barrels, view across Channel. 06:02:20 Allied tanks, guns, locomotives & other military equipment parked on English fields. 06:02:44 Fighter aircraft on airfield; supplies in warehouses. Railway locomotives specially built to run on continental railroad tracks parked; freight cars & tank cars. 06:03:19 Harbor w/ navy ships waiting side by side in ports for invasion. Assault boats launched from the transport ships that brought them. Many ships anchored. Landing craft practicing circling in harbor of southern England. 06:04:26 Troops practice loading operations; board ships. Tanks & artillery loaded onto ships, into landing craft. Landing craft tested in the English Channel. 06:05:17 Boarding ships up rope ladders; aerial of fleet at sea in Channel. Men into landing craft & circling. Aerials of ships & landing fleet. 06:06:32 Animated map showing Caen (brief). Transport aircraft overhead; paratroopers jumping, parachutes opening; landing w/ smoke screen beyond. 06:07:37 Montage: landing craft / barges heading for shore - artillery & rocket guns fired, explosions. Landing craft onto beaches - explosions; smoke screen laid; troops running, flame-throwers, etc. 06:09:29 The End. 1944; WW2; NOTE: End montage of scenes from Operation Tiger in 1943-1944 aka Slapton Sands in Devon. NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk