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This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.

FRENCH CIVILIANS RETURN TO HOMES AFTER USA TAKES OVER; GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN, BOOBY TRAP Part 1

Description

1) LS Plane dives amid tracers.2) MS Fr. civilians & Navy cameraman Lt. Fred Garretson.3) GV-Pan Beach scene, trucks on beach, many ships offshore-SV.4) MS Fr. civilians return to homes.5) GV Ger. booby trap; square-head grenade tied to open cattle gate.6) MS-CU Signal Corpsmen string wires, dead Germans.7) MS Wrecked U.S. glider-SV.8) GV U.S. troops, trucks go down village street-SV.9) MS Fr. children watch U.S. troops march by homes.10) SCU U.S. troops give cigarettes to Frenchmen, drink cider.11) GV Fr. civilians return to village-SV.12) GV Heavily-laden troops march away from beachhead, beach BG.13) MS General beach scenes on Utah beach many ships, barrage balloons-SV.14) MS Loaded rhino barge underway-SV; AP at anchor offshore.

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Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities

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Date
1944-06-10
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3:22