WWII - 1944, D-Day Invasion: Channel crossing; Advance In France To St.-Mere-Eglise

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, D-Day Invasion: Channel crossing; Advance In France To St.-Mere-Eglise Shipboard on LST among other ships & barrage balloons. Men relax on deck; watching other ships. High angle of LCI. Loading from ship into landing craft. Men packed in. Shore & white smoke rising. 01:49:48 Bulldozer leading jeeps up sandy beach dune. Troops standing along dunes. CU Blacks etaing in foxhole. Tarp covered headquarters w/ soldier at typewriter in front. CU German warning sign: Minen. 01:50:18 MCU General Bradley & one-star General. GIs look at German artillery beside wall. MCU dead German. Gliders wrecked on hedgerow along country lane. GIs clean up wreckage to open road. 01:51:02 Road graders leveling field; Twin-engine P-38 airplane lands on sandy runway. 01:51:21 Many German POWs w/ tags marched along country road away from beachhead. Eating from tin cups in field. Marched into surf to board LCT. LS Red cross tents. DUKW past; Stretcher unloaded from truck; plasma given. 01:53:10 Women / female medics eating beside tent; others wrapping bandages in tent & w/ wounded on stretchers. MCU oriental POWs. German POWs carry stretchers. Medic / doctor treating shrapnel wound on back 01:54:12 Germans carrying stretchers w/ many soldiers moving inland. Other wounded on ground; wounded Americans 101st Airborne. 01:54:41 Stretchers hoisted from landing craft onto shipboard, carried on. 01:55:12 Sandy beach w/ assembled troops & chaplain standing on back of jeep. Gives out communion. Wreathlaying on graves & rifle salute fired. Three elderly French beside grave. CU bugler. Pan many graves. 01:57:13 Heavy artillery fired, some from under camouflage netting. 01:57:35 Soldiers look at road sign: St. Marie-du-Mont 1.4; Carentan 11.3. MS GIs talk to two French women w/ bicycles beside road. Talk w/ children & give candy or gum. Tanks passing w/ troops; others marching, past villagers. MCU French waving. POV from car. Tanks along road & hedgerows. 01:58:56 Sign: Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Townspeople wave to tanks entering. POV from vehicle thru village, past Frenchmen; MP guiding traffic. GI talking w/ French boy & French policeman. Frenchmen outside wrecked house. 01:59:44 CU French woman w/ mustache. Men & women. French applauding. WW2; Normandy Invasion; English Channel Crossing; Medical Evacuations; Oddities; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk