Buyout Footage Historic Stock Footage Archive
Download full films or create your own custom cuts
Military Newsreels 1944 Issue 45
- Standard Definition: (24-hr. turnaround)
- SD NTSC -- $300.00
720 x 480 29.97i DV-NTSC Quicktime
keywords: wwii, european theater, normandy beachhead, allied invasion of france
Synopsis: Allied forces strike out from Normandy beachhead and make major advances into France and onto Germany...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:10:22
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Europe
Military Newsreels: 1944 - Issue 45
Allies forces advance from Normandy beachheads. Allied reenforcement troops pour onto Normandy beaches and cut a wide path across the Cherbourg Peninsula (Cotentin Peninsula). Low aerial views of Normandy beachheads. Thousands of Allied soldiers, equipment, and supplies landing in Normandy after the D-Day invasion. Shows DUKWs, amphibious vehicles coming ashore. German prisoners POW's are marched to the beaches and loaded onto landing crafts to be transported back to England for internment.
Captured German film shows German coastal defenses before the Normandy invasion. German General Rommel and General von Rundstedt inspecting coastal fortifications in France. German troops move large shells for the coastal guns.
Allied Troops are welcomed by the liberated French people. Army Engineers using motor graders to construct airstrips. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall are one of the first of the High Command to land by plane and embark on a tour of the Normandy battlefields. Scattered fleet of gliders that landed Allied troops behind the German lines, with most damaged upon landing. Batteries of heavy artillery under camouflage netting firing. A 105 mm , M7 "Priest" track-mounted, self-propelled artillery gun underway. Battlefield first aid station tends to Allies and Axis soldiers alike. Army nurse kneeling next to a wounded Allied soldier on stretcher.
Gun camera footage of Allied planes bombing and strafing German trucks, trains, and emplacements with several large ground explosions.
French citizens celebrate liberation of their town by Allied from the German occupation. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and South African Statesman Jan Christian Smuts land on French soil. Several CU images of PM Winston Churchill with cigar.
