"SHEAF PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISIONS PRESENTS" Part 3

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Signal Corps ADC 1319 111 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 2 ADC FILMs Arch & APC MP, 852 Γ ea, Comp Std (Narration) 1319-1 INTRODUCTORY TITLES: "SHAEF PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION PRESENTS" "This picture is a compilation of some of the action that took place from D Day to n Plus 3, 6-9 June 1944." In England, 4 June. US soldiers in dukws on highway en route to POE in southern ports in England. English and Canadian soldiers beard transport. LSTs, LCTs in English harbor. Large number of LSTs in harbor, Soldiers carry ammo aboard landing craft. Vehicle boards LST, another vehicle is loaded by crane lines onto ship. US troops in a landing barge pass in harbor. Allied planes in flight during night attack on the Normandy coast. Fires and explosions visible. Aboard a destroyer as torpedo tubes are moved; a soldier talks to another soldier who is holding a bayonet. Three landing craft under way. Shots from ship showing vessels of the convoy. Soldiers with bowed heads stand on deck of ship. VS, different ships of the fleet during the invasion crossing. British soldiers look at pamphlets on France. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210 Signal Corps ADC 1319 111SOU: CE: AFCF Card 2 of 2 ADCFILM: Arch & APC MP, 852' ea, Comp Std (Narration) 1319-2 INTRODUCTORY TITLE: "SHAEF PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION PRESENTS" Shots of different soldiers on ship as narrator off-screen reads Gen Eisenhower's Order of The Day to the invasion army. Different scenes of invasion craft under way as narrator continues to read Eisenhower's order to the troops. CU₂ British soldier reading the order. Ind shots, two American soldiers reading the order. Back in Britain US paratroopers board C-47s. MS, paratroopers, their faces smeared and wearing camouflage on their helmets, go aboard the planes. Night shots of C-47s taking off (scratch). A few bombers in flight with vapor trails showing. Fast cuts as ships bombard the French coast. Discarded shells on deck of ship. VS, C-47s and gliders on field in Britain. Some AVs of the same. Gliders being towed along the field on take-off. American troops come down landing nets to LCM alongside transport. Cut-ins as the men prepare to go over the side. Bombers flying above the clouds (look like both Liberators and Mitchells). LS on the water of smoke coming up from a sinking ship the US destroyer Corey. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities