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1944, Invasion of France 250004-04.mp4 | Footage Farm

296 views · Published 18 November 2011 · 10:43 · Indexed 30 September 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2011 · Film & Animation

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Silent. MS barrage balloon moved into place on landing strip in France.
07:19:29  08Jun44  First C-47 landing on new strip; casualties loaded from ambulance to plane.  MCU, nurses, others.  More C-47s arrive.  MCUs, loading wounded German prisoners & French civilians.  
07:20:47  C-47 taking off, in air; interiors, English nurse giving blood transfusion.  
07:21:24  LSs, American dead on litters, lined up on beachhead beneath cliffs.  CU, reading identification tags.
07:21:42  Infantry thru village.  LSs, CUs, German prisoners being herded along road.
07:22:07  MS General Hap Arnold, Gen Carl Spaatz, Lt Gen Lewis B Brereton & Maj Gen R Royce in jeep. 07:22:17  First ambulance planes arrive in England; wounded unloaded, examined.  CU, Negro troops carrying litter cases to ambulance. MCUs
07:23:36  12Jun44  AV cargo planes fly over English Channel, France, drop chutes.  CU, American Mustang fighter planes start up, take off; attack & hit two-motor German bombers.  CUs, German plane drops belly tank, another plane hit, pilot bails out. 
07:25:06  GSAP sequence:  Strafing enemy airdromes & planes on ground.  GSAP, Focke-Wulf 190 hit as it takes off, hit in air & bursts into flames. 
07:26:47  Sequence:  bombing railroad installations; strafing locomotives.
07:27:04  Aerial from above of B-26 Marauders covering invading fleet & beachhead, over town & cratered fields.  B-26s dropping bombs on ground installations.  Good explosions.
07:29:56  The End.
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