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D-Day Convoy to Normandie Pt1/2 250004-14.mp4 | Footage Farm

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Sgt. James Mansfield introduces re D-Day, 06Jun44.  SOF
MS Col. William W. Quinn behind desk, SOF reviews points about infantry & their weapons in the atomic age in Korea today.  Talks about meeting w/ Gen. Spaatz & Hermann Goering when Goering said Germany could not have won the war w/o the invasion of Normandy as Germany had to divert manpower from industry that was working to put jets in the air against the Allied bombers.
FDR, Stalin & Churchill pose at Tehran.  Gen. Eisenhower w/ other military at table.  Illustration showing Germany 7th, 15th & 19th locations in France; Cherbourg as target for foothold in France.
POV past rows of equipment stockpiled & moving in to England.  Soldiers arriving; training on coast beaches on southern coach w/ explosions & flame-throwers.
Twin-engine bombers overhead; POV over European villages; four-engine bombers dropping bombs; explosions.
Fighters & GSAP footage of dogfights.
Training troops getting orders, MCU & CUs.  Boarding trucks & convoy thru countryside & villages.  Tanks, DUKWs.
Gas masks, life belts, rations, cigarettes, candy, French money issued.
Units briefed in field & beginning to move to docks & embarkation.
Thru towns, along docks & loading aboard ships.
Infantry marching w/ weapons, packs & thru towns.  Boarding ships; assault boats & onto transport ships in harbor.
LS of ships filling English harbor; pan acrpss w/ barrage balloons above.  Men playing cards; w/ pet puppy dog; reading; napping / sleeping.  Navy sailors & army infantry briefed.  Cleaning & preparing weapons, boots.
Naval officers aboard USS Augusta.  
Airborne paratroops boarding buses; motorcycles leading convoy down country road; off buses.
Bombers overhead intercut w/ aerial of ships moving out.  bombardment w/ GOOD explosions.
Ships underway from in front.
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