D-DAY
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 2011-03-27

D-DAY - National Archives and Records Administration 1944 - ARC 39013, LI 208-UN-106 - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.  Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945.  Gen. Eisenhower and his aides map the Normandy invasion. German pictures show the extent of their coastal defenses. Tanks, guns, locomotives, and other military equipment is massed on the English beaches. Troops practice loading operations. Landing craft is tested in the English Channel. Pictures of practice landing and airborne operations are used to dramatize the actual invasion on June 6, 1944.