WWII - 1944, D-Day Normandy Invasion 06Jun44 | 300390X | Footage Farm Ltd

01:00:08 Policeman watches column of GIs march past. GIs board LCVP at Saltash passage; GIs in LCVP past camera Formations of B-26s in sky tilt down to invasion fleet at sea: looking at bridge of HMS Apollo: passing US Navy LST-379 and RN S-Class destroyer and other vessels (including HMS Belfast) off JUNO Beach. Two LCT (R) craft underway on port side on dull day: LCT (4) - 1024 with netting over tank deck underway: a line of RN minesweepers (not Algerines): Officer and lookout on bridge watch on Apollo: looking along port waist of Apollo at full speed with twin powered Oerlikon mounting and twin 40mm mounting with Hazemeyer director:radar: RN Lt speaking into microphone watched by two ratings: three old merchantmen en route to Normandy.
01:01:37 Backlit shots of MS Aax, a Royal Navy Leander-class cruiser, shelling shore target: distant view of LCT (R) in action loosing off rocket salvoes obscured by smoke, a sub-chaser in middle distance: a line of Higgins boats in fog, a US Navy LST and other Invasion craft off invasion beach: another closer view of Leander-class cruiser bombarding shore target near Omaha Beach.
01:01:53 L Company, 16th RCT landing on FOX RED Beach around 0700 hours on D-Day and scenes on EASY RED Beach later that mornings.
01:04:07 HMS Ajax in action against shore targets near OMAHA Beach.
01:04:20 OSS-USN fixed camera #1 - men of North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment’s A Company crouching low behind the armoured door on a RCN-manned LCA as it approaches a section of Nan Red Beach dominated by two seaside villas until it opens at 04:50 to reveal a wide beach with steel hedge hog obstacles: at least 17 of the men on board make their way one by one through the bow doors off the invasion craft and onto the beach dominated by seaside villages (at 05:17 a soldier pats the back of the man in front of him in encouragement).
01:05 OSS-USN fixed camera roll #2 with much of the beach at St Aubin-sur-Mer obscured by smoke as the bow doors on an LCA are opened st 05:22 and while the landing craft swings about in the shallows Canadian infantrymen file out of the craft one by one and wade in knee-high water towards the beach.
01:06:19 OSS-USN fixed camera roll #3 (virtually the same location as fixed camera roll #1) as Canadian infantrymen clamber through the open bow door of an LCA and disembark onto a stretch of Nan Red Beach and head up towards the top of the beach past steel hedgehog anti-tank obstacles.
01:07:18 Paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in possession of the town of St Marcouf on D- Day.
01:09:08 HMS Apollo - Invasion craft off Omaha Beach: Admiral Sue Bertram Ramsay, commander of all Allied naval forces for the invasion of Europe, with General Dwight D Eisenhower, Allied Supreme Commander, and RN officers on Apollo’s bridge.
01:09:45 General Omar Bradley, 1st US Army commander, transferring from an LCM pitching up and down with the waves onto HMS Apollo and being greeted by Eisenhower.
01:10:02 US and RN invasion craft off Omaha Beach: the RN destroyer HMS Faulkner coming alongside HMS Apollo’s starboard side: General Dur Bernard Montgomery, commander of Allied ground forces, being helped to board HMS Apollo and posing for the camera with Eisenhower and Ramsay. Montgomery climbing down the sides of HMS Apollo onto the deck of an MTB where he is met by Vice Afmiral Sir Philip Vian.
01:10:52 Eisenhower in conversation with Ramsay on the bridge of HMS Apollo: Ramsay with two senior naval officers on the quarterdeck of HMS Apollo )over-exposed shot).
01:11:01 RAF Upottery where C47 Skytrains with Horsa gliders in tow take off from the runway: formations of C47 tugs tieing CG-4A gliders on their way to Normandy over the airfield.
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