Summary

US Navy officers and sailors aboard a landing craft still at port in England, pose with chart of their destination in Normandy, France, during World War 2 They all raise their caps for the cameraman US troops fill deck of a large landing craft infantry (film reversed) Views of other landing craft underway US troops standing aft on a ship View of a destroyer escort ship Landing craft underway in moonlight Barrage balloon visible overhead A camouflaged Benham class destroyer passing abeam the camera ship More views of landing craft and barrage balloons Officer aboard ship using a telescope A Destroyer escort and another view of the Benham class destroyer (These color sequences are reversed) Black and White sequence 02:36 to 03:39 shows members of the Canadian North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment approaching and landing on D-day, at La Rive Plage,Bernieres-sur-Mer, France Scenes are interposed with some of US troops wading ashore at Omaha Beach At time code 03:40, Troops of the US Army First Division, the Big Red One, are seen wading ashore on Omaha beach, from Higgins boats of the transport ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) US soldiers reaching the beach from the surf, as two fall to German gunfire Location: Normandy France Date: June 6, 1944