Witness the events leading up to the Normandy Invasion, famously known as "D-Day". Cameramen took to the battlefield to document the genuine experience of war.
Gen. Eisenhower and his aides map the Normandy invasion. German pictures show the extent of their coastal defenses. Tanks, guns, locomotives, and other military equipment is massed on the English beaches. Troops practice loading operations. Landing craft is tested in the English Channel. Pictures of practice landing and airborne operations are used to dramatize the actual invasion on June 6, 1944.
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The processing of plasma and penicillin. Troops in Normandy receive medical care. Naval guns bombard Cherbourg. The 8th and 9th Air Forces bomb communication lines. British troops take Caen. Shows Gen. Montgomery.
Victory on Cherbourg Peninsula - 'Allied troops complete the conquest of the Cherbourg peninsula as reinforcements are flown in by air. 26,000 German prisoners were taken by the allies who either captured or destroyed the greater part of their equipment.'
Gen. Eisenhower addresses troops in Southern England; the 'Big Show' begins; airborne troops dropped behind enemy lines; support aircraft drop everything from howitzers to motorcycles; bombers blast bridges and supply lines; sea forces bombard enemy fortifications on French coast; British and second army swarm over coast at Omaha and Utah Beaches; German west wall broken.
The aerial and amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy and the allied convoys landing on the Normandy beaches. Shows Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery and Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsey.
Amphibious training in England and the invasion of France at Omaha Beach.
The Greatest coordination of arms ever portrayed in the world. Every scene made during the greatest victory of Allied power, to date. 11,000 Allied planes plant their tons of pulverizing bombs on shore installations, strategic roads and bridges, then swoop down to strafe enemy trains, ships and planes. The air poundings continue, and the mop-up search for snipers is on. The invasion is successful.
Activities just prior to and including D-Day - Movements of American Troops from all Parts to Poe's Prior to the Normandy Invasion.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin congregate at the Teheran Conference in 1943. U.S. troops land and fight on Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and other Pacific islands. Russian troops advance to Romania and capture German soldiers. Paratroops jump at Caen. Citizens of Rome, Paris, Bucharest, Brussels, Belgrade, and Athens celebrate their liberation. F.D.R. addresses the United Nations.
Invasion of Southern France by the 7th army and subsequent junction with the American 3rd army in northwest part of France.
