Battle For The Beaches, The R1 of 2

The Battle For The Beaches R1 of 2 09:26:19 White cliffs of Dover, coastline. British troops & home guard drilling. Short excerpt Churchill speech “We Shall Fight them on the beaches”. France - coastal defenses, Hitler & generals. Building defence positions. Montage battle scenes on beaches: North Africa, Pacific, Italy. Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent meeting with US Colonel & men. 09:27:38 Landing craft hits beaches, troops run out & take up positions on sand. Flashback to Dunkirk landings, German tanks on French coast. Hitler looking thru telescope towards England. German military equipment at Channel ports in preparation for invasion - big guns fire at Britain. Beaches of England, troops guarding, Royal Navy on patrol in North Sea. RAF planes attack coastal areas of Nazi occupied France. 09:29:16 Hitler & officers in conference. German troops go East towards Russia. British troops attack Norway, Lofoten Islands - cliffs. 09:30:03 Japanese troops attack Pacific Islands. Washington - Capitol, Navy Department HQ. Conference - naval officers w/ relief map. Military officers standing in front of huge wall map planning invasions. Montage: Naval research labs technicians working on new equipment armament production, shipbuilding, factories, landing crafts built & launched. LSTs launched. Troops training w/ mock, phoney landing craft; soldiers training under live ammunition, crossing barbed wire fencing, moving thru battle areas 09:32:20 US fleet in Pacific - night firing. US Army transport ships loaded w/ men & equipment. Fleet at sea - escort vessels. Troops relaxing on deck during voyage. Lookouts search for enemy planes. Fighter aircraft launched from aircraft carrier. Guns fire from ship at enemy plane. Japanese plane crashes on deck of carrier. Commanding officers plan action. Briefing troops on deck of ship. Officers receiving orders. 09:34:38 Night shots planes taking off from carrier. Assault troops get ready. Small landing craft, LCPs lowered into sea, troops down netting. Naval barrage - ships firing broadsides - dawn shots. American planes strafing Japanese planes on ground & in air. WWII Pacific Battles; WWII European theater;