Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 14]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 14]

1944

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On the Allied invasion of Normandy, France. The wounded are unloaded at an English port. Troops embark on landing barges. Shows the invasion fleet in the English Channel. Bombers fly over the island of Guernsey enroute to the French coast. Airborne troops board transport planes and gliders. Naval guns fire and planes strafe German coastal installations. Troops wade ashore and dig in. Corpsmen give plasma to the wounded. French civilians cheer Allied troops. German POW's are marched to the rear. Gen. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Montgomery inspect the battle front. Tanks and heavy equipment come ashore.

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