XD30141 1942 ALLIED RAID ON DIEPPE, FRANCE AND D-DAY INVASION OF NORMANDY 1944 COLORIZED FOOTAGE

This colorized footage of WWII consists of the following subjects:

00:00 D-Day invasion fleet in English Channel

00:13 LCI on June 6, 1944, with British or Canadian troops aboard

00:15 American paratrooper on the move, and German infantryman behind him

00:19 General Eisenhower and Field Marshall Montgomery consult with high command

00:33 Adolf Hitler and general staff

00:38 German defenses at Normandy part of Atlantic Wall

00:43 Prime Minister Winston Churchill

00:46 Failed British/Canadian attack on Dieppe in August of 1942

00:57 Abandoned landing craft on beach at Dieppe in aftermath of raid; wounded and captured Canadian troops, wrecked light tanks on the beach.

01:25 Wounded Canadian soldier at Dieppe.

01:34 Canadian prisoners march at Dieppe.

01:43 Marshaling of invasion fleet for D-Day including troop transports

01:47 General Eisenhower and Lord Mountbatten

01:52 Atlantic Wall defenses

02:00 Erwin Rommel at General Staff meeting

02:08 Building Atlantic Wall defenses

02:28 Towing Mulberry harbor system

02:37 Mulberry Harbor piers being emplaced

02:47 inspection of invasion material including landing craft / Higgins boats and assembly of B-25 aircraft

03:00 Field Marshall George Montgomery

03:11 Aircraft sortie for invasion, bombing of Occupied France including railroad stations and bridges, roads and airfields

03:22 Communications, radios, telephone system, switchboard

03:30 Troops assemble for embarkation

03:41 Gliders await flight

03:45 Invasion fleet transports, LCI, LST, LSD

04:42 Royal Air Force Spitfires and Hurricanes take flight

05:00 Paratroops prepare for pre-D-Day invasion drop on D-Day Minus One. C-47 aircraft take off and fly into France.

06:09 German troops and Panzer tanks in Occupied France await invasion force

06:16 Horsa glider take off

06:34 Horsa glider landings and crashes

07:04 German staff reporting invasion

07:06 Muster of German troops to repel invasion.

07:18 Invasion fleet in English Channel

07:30 Bombardment by warships of German Atlantic Wall positions

07:56 German Atlantic Wall guns return fire at invasion fleet

08:00 Allied forces hit the beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944

08:12 Most famous footage from D-Day, of Allied soldier being struck during invasion

08:22 Medic on the beach providing aid

08:31 Bombardment of Atlantic Wall by warship

08:46 Troops hit Juno Beach

09:10 Trucks in the surf as invasion gets inland

09:20 Radar scope with view of English Channel and invasion fleet

09:22 German Wehrmacht troops with machineguns on the move

09:30 Paratroop drop into Normandy

09:53 D-Day plus several days as trucks and supplies land on the beachhead

10:13 Another parachute drop

10:16 Field Marshall Montgomery in Normandy

10:22 German artillery crew gets gun ready to fire

10:44 German and Allied units clash near Coutances, France

11:08 House to house fighting in France

11:18 Lancaster bomber on mission

11:28 France civilians flee invading forces

11:30 Civilian refugees inspect damaged town.

11:45 Mounted German troops on horseback head into combat.

11:50 American soldier flees burning convoy of vehicles

12:00 B-17 Flying fortress on bombing mission

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