The True Glory 1945: Reel-3

Shot List:

R3:00:00:33:12

D-Day Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1944, Normandy landings codenamed Operation Neptune was the assault phase of Operation Overlord the Allied invasion of France. Airborne troops on aircraft waiting for signal to jump, CU hand on jump switch, paratroopers jump. Scenes of invasion fleet with planes and gliders overhead. Various scenes of the gliders and the troops in the gliders.

R3:00:01:20:21

Naval scenes of the Normandy invasion fleet, Men using signal flags to communicate. Naval guns are loaded and fired, naval bombardment of the coast of Normandy, Allied planes drop bombs. Soldiers loading into Higgins assault boats LCVP. Rocket ship fires rocket as assault boats head to beach. CU scenes of British, American, and Canadian soldiers in assault boats on way to beachheads. Beachhead Landings: Allied soldiers landing on Normandy beachheads. Soldiers wading ashore from LCI (Landing Craft Infantry). Bullets striking the water.

R3:00:04:11:20

Iconic Big Ben Tower of London, double-deck street cars, street scenes in London on D-day, June 4, 1944. News reporters seated in the newsroom at the Ministry of Information and when given the news of the Normandy Invasion shown racing from the room. Newspaper Headline reads INVASION, English people reading newspaper, sign reads Invasion Day Prayers 7:30 PM.

R3:00:04:51:07

U.S. soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 4, 1944. Allied soldiers wading ashore. Iconic scene of Omaha Beach, Normandy Invasion. Wounded soldiers huddle together under cliff on Omaha Beach, bodies of dead U.S. soldiers with faces covered laying in the sand next to captured German soldiers. American ship burning off-shore, corpsman aids wounded soldier while another soldier holds plasma bottle, more wounded on litters receiving aid. U.S. soldiers moving off beachhead.

R3:00:05:55:21

CU Image of German soldier firing a rifle, German mortar team firing mortar rounds. Close up of 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle shoulder patch. German re-enforcements rush toward the coast of Normandy. Adolf Hitler and German Staff Officers study maps on a table.

R3:00:06:14:05

Animated map of beachheads. British soldiers landed on Gold and Sword beachheads, Canadian soldiers landed on Juno Beachhead in the middle. British troops fight their way inland, scenes of flamethrower tank, British machine gun nest, Officer yells FIRE!, to artillery crew, British artillery gun firing, British troops dig in. Received news that Allied invasion forces had joined up and established a 45-mile long defense line.

R3:00:07:27:20

British Field Marshal Bernhard Montgomery arrives on beachhead and jumps down from DUKW amphibious truck. British soldiers advance under cover of artillery fire. Formation of four P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight and Canadian de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito Mossie aircraft in in low flight over water. CU image of de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito Mossie aircraft in flight. Allied aircraft strafing ground targets with rockets.

R3:00:08:12:09

Low aerial view of Normandy beachheads. American Utah beachhead as jeeps, tanks, troops, half-tracks are ferried to shore in LCTs. Wounded are loaded on landing craft. Brief scene of British mortar team firing weapon.