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WW2 Documentary 'Invasion Of Europe: Normandy - Volume 1' 1944

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BOF6287535
Video title
WW2 Documentary 'Invasion Of Europe: Normandy - Volume 1' 1944
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Date
1944 AD (C20th AD)
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USS LCI (L)-553 on Omaha Beach, front of an LVT Alligator (Landing Vehicle Tracked) enters scene from right. Brief scene of LVT underway. Omaha beachhead scene of LVT Alligators with barrage balloons in sky in BG. MS House that has been gutted by shells; landing craft in background. Liberty ship at anchor; Coast Guardsmen standing about an LCI. LST alongside liberty ship; Coast Guardsmen in background. Coast Guardsmen; two men working on windlass in background. Sea going tug towing some type of caisson. LCVP underway; Normandy beach in background. Two Coast Guardsmen, dressed in watch caps and foul-weather jackets, leaning up against a 20mm gun mount. LCI underway at sea; concrete caisson in background. Shows USS LST-351 under tow. LCVP underway; Normandy beach in background. Coast Guard cutter underway, Task Force and balloons in background. Men opening cans of Vienna sausages and placing Vienna sausages in tray. LS Deep cliff that drops down to the sea; LCVP underway in FG. LCI loaded with troops. Sunken boat with LCM alongside. British trawler with two barges behind it. LS British trawler. Patrol boat; another patrol boat and sunken ships in background. CU Superstructure of patrol boat; another patrol boat and sunken ships in background. LCM underway; LCTs, patrol boats, and sunken ships in background. CU Patrol boat. LS Patrol boat. CU Bow section of USCG 25 patrol boat, one of the 83-foot wooden hull patrol boats from the "matchbox fleet" that formed Rescue Flotilla One for the Normandy invasion. Waves washing over sunken ship. Landing craft in very rough water. LCT which has been washed aground; explosion on beach in background. British LCT which has been broken into; American LCT alongside of it; sunken ships forming breakwater in background.

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alliance (union) / colour / Second World War (1939-1945) / war / USA / North America / America (continent) / ship / Normandy / France / Europe / soldier / documentary / Normandy landings / landing operation (military)
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