D-Day 1944

Creator(s): Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. 12/17/1942-9/15/1945

Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, 1942 - 1945
Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951

Scope & Content: 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.

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SUBJECTS
Air warfare
Amphibious operations
Coast defenses
World War, 1939-1945
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
United News Company, Producer

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National Archives Identifier: 39013
Local Identifier: 208-UN-106

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