D-Day anniversary at St. Lo, which figured so much during the Normandy landings of 1944. <br/> <br/>France. <br/> <br/>Various shots at a wreath-laying ceremony at the town jail where in 1944 at the news of the invasion the Nazi guards fled in panic leaving many prisoners locked in the prison to be shelled and bombed by the allies. <br/> <br/>Among those present is the wife of the late Major Howie, one of the many heroes of the Normandy landings. <br/> <br/>Various shots of march past by British, French, Canadian and American troops with dignitaries watching. French Prime Minister Couve de Murville takes the salute and among others noted are US General Omar Bradley, Christopher Soames, British Ambassador to France.

[D-Day Invasion - Canadian Troops]

TAPE: EF03/0520 IN_TIME: 03:06:15 DURATION: 2:17 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Normandy, 6 June 2003 SHOTLIST: Normandy 1. Various aerial views of Normandy beaches Colleville-sur-Mer 2. Various of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (centre) and US Ambassador to France Howard H. Leach visiting cemetery where US soldiers are buried 3. Various of Raffarin and Leach laying wreath and holding one minute silence Courseulles-sur-Mer 4. Canadian honour guard in front of museum 5. Various of Raffarin (left) and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien unveiling bronze sculpture 6. War veterans watch 7. Close-up of sculpture 7. Various of Canadian paratroopers landing with giant-sized Canadian flag 8. Raffarin and Chretien lay wreath, hold one minute silence STORYLINE: Nearly 700 Canadian veterans gathered at a beach in Normandy, France to mark the 59th anniversary of D-Day - the name given to the World War Two Allied assault to free France from the Nazis. They were also commemorating the opening of the Juno Beach Centre, a museum and memorial honouring Canadians who fought in the Second World War. For decades, the strip of sand on the Atlantic Ocean code-named Juno Beach, where 21,000 Canadians landed on June 6, 1944, has been overshadowed by nearby Omaha Beach, the bloodiest D-Day battle site. Veterans groups sought to give Juno greater honor by opening a monument that is a testimony to the sacrifices of all Canadians, both on the battlefield and at home, during World War II. "Until now, there has been no Canadian memorial to mark these achievements," Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said at a finely orchestrated ceremony. "At the Juno Beach Centre, our grandchildren and their grandchildren will learn what their forebears did for freedom." Chretien and French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin unveiled a 2.5-metre (8-foot) bronze sculpture entitled "Remembrance and Renewal" that evokes the unity and camaraderie of the troops. "Every year on these beaches the French people honour the liberators," Raffarin said, while paying tribute to the "determination and courage" that drove them to liberate France. In total, nearly one-thousand Canadians died that day. A group of Canadian paratroopers in red and white jumped from a plane above the landing site on Friday, unfurling a giant-sized Canadian flag as they fell. The flag is to flutter above the new memorial. From helicopters overhead, 43,000 poppy flowers were dropped over the landing site, one for each Canadian soldier who died in the war. The streets of Normandy towns and villages were lined with American, British, Canadian and French flags. D-Day marked the first breach in Hitler's Atlantic wall, and eventually led to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Few of the troops who landed that day had any combat experience, and thousands were gunned down by German machine gun and mortar fire. Canadian troops led the assault at Juno, US forces stormed code-named Utah and Omaha beaches and British soldiers led an attack on Gold and Sword beaches. Also on Friday, American veterans, choir singers and tourists came together at the Normandy American Cemetery in nearby Colleville-sur-Mer to honour the US troops who also fought and died on D-Day. The cemetery contains the graves of thousands of soldiers, many of whom were cut down by enemy fire on Omaha.

First House liberated by the Canadians by sea, June 6, 1944. An emblematic place of Remembrance and the Duty of Memory. Juno Beach, where the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division commanded by Major General Rodney Keller, assisted by the Royal Canadian Navy and the British Royal Navy landed to liberate France on D-Day during World War II. Juno Beach, one of the five landing beaches.

--SUPERS--&#10;Monday &#10;Washington&#10;&#10; --VO SCRIPT- -&#10;THE FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR 2 MEMORIAL OBSERVED THE 72ND ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY WITH A COMMEMORATION AND WREATH PRESENTATION.&#10;ON JUNE SIXTH 1944-- MORE THAN 150-THOUSAND U-S, BRITISH AND CANADIAN FORCES STORMED FIVE DIFFERENT BEACHES ALONG A 50-MILE STRETCH OF THE NORMANDY REGION OF FRANCE...IN ORDER TO FIGHT NAZI GERMANY IN WORLD WAR TWO. &#10;ALLIED CASUALTIES ON D-DAY HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED AT 10,000 KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING IN ACTION: 6,603 AMERICANS, 2,700 BRITISH, AND 946 CANADIANS. &#10;THE OPERATION WAS THE LARGEST AMPHIBIOUS INVASION IN HISTORY.&#10; -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----&#10;&#10; --KEYWORD TAGS--&#10;WORLD WAR II NORMANDY AMERICA MILITARY&#10;&#10;

View from Canadian landing craft as Canadian troops of the North Shore Regiment (3rd Canadian Division) land at the Nan sector of Juno beach on D-Day. View on the beach shortly after the landing. Scene shifts to American troops disembarking from a landing craft LST elsewhere at Normandy on D-Day. U.S. Soldiers move ashore in a long line through the water to reach the shore as an explosion occurs in the background. (World War II period). Location: France. Date: June 6, 1944.

Naval Activity aboard Canadian Cruiser on D-Day. """"NAVY GUN FIRE JUNE 6, 1944 SHIP GUNS FIRE ON CANADIAN CRUISER CANADIAN SOLDIERS CARRY WOUNDED ONTO SHIP NORMANDY SHORELINE IN DISTANCE CANADIAN NAVY SHIPS IN DISTANCE"". WWII in HD

A vintage newsreel presents scenes of workers in Canadian munitions factories during the last year of World War II, followed by a brief scene of Canadian armed forces on Juno Beach on D-Day.

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S REMARKS ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY AT POINTE DU HOC IN NORMANDY, FRANCE.

Colour footage : Shot of ships underway in the English Channel, of Royal Canadian Navy rating using signal lamp (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).

--SUPERS--\nWednesday\nPortsmouth, England\n\n --VO SCRIPT--\nPRESIDENT TRUMP MET BRIEFLY WITH CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY ANGELA MERKEL WEDNESDAY AFTER A D-DAY EVENT.\nWORLD LEADERS HAVE BEEN TAKING PART IN COMMEMORATIONS FOR THE 75TH D-DAY ANNIVERSARY THROUGHOUT THE DAY IN PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHERN ENGLAND.\nA WHITE HOUSE PRESS STATEMENT SAID THE TWO LEADERS DISCUSSED CONDITIONS AND AFFAIRS IN LIBYA AND WEST AFRICA.\nTHEY AGREED TO CONTINUE TALKS AT THE G-20 SUMMIT LATER THIS MONTH IN OSAKA, JAPAN.\nMERKEL HAS BEEN A STRONG CRITIC OF TRUMP BUT LAST WEEK SHE TOLD CNN THEY'VE MANAGED TO FIND SOME "COMMON GROUND."\nSHE CALLED THEIR MEETING A "GIFT OF HISTORY."\n --TAG--\nD-DAY, THE MILITARY TERM FOR THE NORMANDY LANDINGS, MARKS THE LARGEST JOINT MILITARY OPERATION EVER INVOLVING U-S, BRITISH AND CANADIAN TROOPS.\nTHE INVASION TOOK PLACE ON JUNE 6, 1944 AND LED TO THE DEFEAT OF THE NAZIS.\n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\nTRUMP MERKEL D-DAY G20 \n\n15 OTHER HEADS OF STATE ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMEMORATIONS.\n\n

D-Day to Victory, 1944; edited private footage with narration of Invasion of France and the Victory in Europe; Channel crossing; Utah Beach; Paris liberation ceremonies; US forces in Aachen, Germany.. ""COLOR FOOTAGE BIG BEN LONDON COLOR FOOTAGE UK CHILDREN US WAR CORRESPONDENT WOW CU ERNIE PYLE WILLYS JEEPS GUARD POSTS US SOLDIERS LOADING ONTO LANDING CRAFT PRE INVASION CU US SOLDIERS PRE INVASION US SAILORS MAKE LIFE VEST FOR PUPPY CANADIAN SOLDIERS LAND ON JUNO US SOLDIERS OMAHA COLOR FOOTAGE US SOLDIERS WALKING ONTO BEACH SHIPS IN BACKGROUND AIRCRAFT FLYING OVERHEAD SHIPS BARRAGE BALLOONS WAR CORRESPONDENT DIGGING FOX HOLE GREEN BEACH HQ SIGN GERMAN POWS US FLAG ON SHIPS SMILING CORRESPONDENTS GERMAN V 1 ROCKET BUZZ BOMB BRITISH SPITFIRE AIR CRAFT ANTI AIRCRAFT GUNS SHOOTING ALLIED SHIP WITH SUPPLIES US LST PREPARING TO UNLOAD FRENCH TOWN CHERBOURG? GERMAN POWS VANDALIZED PAINTING OF HITLER US 57MM ANTI TANK GUN BEING TOWED US SOLDIERS MARCHING TOWN SIGN VALOGNES BEACH WITH GERMAN DEFENSES FRENCH CIVILIANS CLIMBING ON BEACH DEFENSES US SOLDIER WALKS AROUND GERMAN DEFENSES GERMAN CAMO PILL BOX WOW FRENCH FARMERS US MEDIC IN FIELD ARTILLERY FIRES IN BACKGROUND US P 47 PREPARING TO TAKE OFF P 38 TAKING OFF WOW AIRCRAFT COLLIDE IN MID AIR FRENCH CASTLE BACKGROUND US SOLDIERS SEATED FOREGROUND NAKED MEN BATHING EDWARD G. ROBINSON ROAD SIGN VERSAILLES PARIS US ARTILLERY TRACTOR PULLING GUN FRENCH TOWN LIBERATION OF PARIS FIGHTING IN PARIS GERMAN POWS EIFFEL TOWER POV HORSE RACE US ARMORED DIVISION OFFICERS US 3RD ARMORED DIVISION SOLDIER US SOLDIERS WITH FRENCH CHILDREN FRENCH CHILDREN WITH TANK TRAPS AACHEN ROTHE ERDE RAILWAY SIGN US SOLDIER CU EISENHOWER GIVING SPEECH JU 88 BOMBER V 2 ROCKET ME 262 JAPANESE SUICIDE ROCKET"". WWII in HD

THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY AT THE UNITED STATES CEMETERY IN COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, FRANCE.

View of Canadian troops on D-Day huddled in a landing craft approaching Juno beach in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944, in World War 2. The landing craft reaches the beach and all the Canadian infantry leave the boat, two or three at a time, and wade ashore during the invasion of Europe by Allied forces. Steel obstacles placed by the German forces can be seen on the beach. Several houses, stand along the beach. Two other landing craft with Canadian soldiers arrive near beach and soldiers wade ashore. The troops advance on the beach. Location: Normandy France. Date: June 6, 1944.

Compilation of material documenting the allied landings on the Northern Coast of France in 1944. Previously seen in Pathe Gazettes I presume. Not linked with new commentary. <br/><br/>C/U of a typewritten communique stating that the allied forces had begun landing that morning. Retrospective - footage of the evacuation of the B.E.F. and allied troops from Dunkirk in 1940 is shown. 4 years later, back to the same Normandy coast. Various shots of troops on board ship, D-Day, wading through the sea etc. "We announce the fact that never in the history of newsreels have such vast plans been made for the coverage of the last great act of liberation." Various shots of troops sleeping on deck, disembarking. First pictures of the opening of the second front. Overhead shot of aircraft from the sky. Bombers move over French coast and blast enemy lines of communication - various shots of explosions. Allied soldiers march through streets and board amphibious vehicles. Winston Churchill visits the assembled Armada. Various shots of Churchill including him giving his famous "V for Victory" sign. Various shots of British, Canadian and American troops boarding ships (some with bicycles). Boats move away from harbour. A truck pushes an amphibious vehicle. Speech by General Eisenhower heard over shots of boats moving through the sea carrying large number of troops. Barrage balloons, warships, amphibious vehicles, paratroops, aircraft, air force, men board C47s. General Pemberton (?) salutes as the aircraft move off. Night shots of aircraft taking off. Channel Islands are seen below the aircraft. Aerial shots of the scenes below the aircraft. <br/><br/>01:43:53 Shots of civilians rushing to buy newspapers for the latest information about D-Day landings. C/U of newspaperman and of various people reading newspapers as they go about their business. Some are working whilst they read - one man paints a shop sign, another climbs down into a manhole. The narrator promises "fuller news pictures which we will present in our next editions of Pathe Gazette." M/S of group of women walking along reading a newspaper.<br/><br/>01:44:20 June the 6th - allied bombers drop bombs on France. Aerial shots of explosions. Air to air shots of aircraft. Coast of Normandy seen from aircraft. Bombs drop. Buildings on fire seen from the air. Fighter aircraft shoot up enemy aircraft and ground targets. Various shots of fire from aircraft. Aircraft and buildings exploding. Troop carrier aircraft, gliders and tow planes mass for take off signal. Various shots of aircraft - large number on the ground with invasion markings of black and white stripes. Panning shot of aircraft on the ground. Aircraft take off, seen in flight. <br/><br/>01:46:40 Men board ship for the battle of Normandy. Various shots of men in uniform walking up gangplanks on to boats. Troop ships move away from harbour. Narrator states that the newsreel has been made longer to show more material of the landings. Aerial shots of sea. Panning shots of warships firing shots. Guns are fired. Shells are loaded. Enemy shells begin to drop among the landing craft. Beach heads are established - aerial shot of coastline and ships at sea. Smoke screens are blown across. Allied Service Photographic Units and newsreel cameramen put "this amazing scene on celluloid." More shots of combat. Soldiers walking along the beach, ships on fire, injured men, landing craft, etc. <br/><br/>01:49:46 First casualties are brought out to the waiting ships. Various shots of injured men being transported to ships which stand offshore. Men on stretchers are lifted aboard, others are helped by fellow soldiers. English side of the Channel. Tank landing craft bring injured men home to southern ports. Red Cross orderlies help the wounded ashore. A man is lifted into a Red Cross ambulance.<br/><br/>01:50:44 "...the Navy keeps up its cross channel service." Various shots of troop ships. Shots of the raging battle on the French coast. Various shots of amphibious vehicles making their way up onto the beach and men disembarking. Buildings on fire. Railway station of Bernieres (sp?) M/S of signpost to St Aubin. Concrete gun emplacements, beach obstructions, block houses are all blasted out of existence by the allies. Pneumatic drills and dynamite are used. Naval guns lying off shore and allied warships are shown. Bombs are dropped. Bridges and roads are severed. Various shots of aircraft in flight and bombs being dropped. Admiral Ramsay and General Dwight D Eisenhower aboard a warship - C/U of the two men. General Bernard Montgomery joins them. Shots of the three men. C/U of Montgomery. Montgomery is helped down the side of a ship. Monty goes ashore aboard an amphibious vehicle. He salutes and talks to other military men. Glider reinforcements fly overhead. The 6th British Airborne Division is singled out by the narrator for special praise. Panning shots of their aircraft on the ground and soldiers walking through a field.<br/><br/>01:55:20 D-Day plus one. Various shots of soldiers on the march. M/S of a Minefield sign with a scull and crossbones painted upon it. Men walk through war torn landscapes. Wrecked buildings, bomb damage. Various shots of combat - shots are fired, buildings on fire, explosions, smoke etc. Civilians - French shake hands with the British and point out army entrenchments. Men walk along railway line. Tanks roll through the Normandy streets. French civilians wave at the liberating armies. M/S of group of German prisoners of war surrendering with their arms up. Group of prisoners of war stand to attention. High angle of troops on the march.<br/><br/>01:57:26 Pathe cameraman Jock Gemmel turns his camera on a Rhino Raft laden with German prisoners. Shots of "hundreds of beaten Bosch" being transported to Britain. Prisoners are transferred to an LCT. Russian, French and Polish nationals are amongst the prisoners taken. Various shots of the prisoners including a Colonel, "a privileged voyager". Germans arrive in England. Panning shot of the prisoners lined up in the English port.

A short pictorial record of the British and Canadian liberation armies fighting from the beaches to Brussels, which was liberated on 3 September 1944. Note: The film does not attempt to depict the campaign as a whole.

Stephen Harper lays a wreath on the grave of a soldier who lost his life in the D-Day invasion. With Barack Obama and Prince Charles in attendance, Harper speaks to a crowd commemorating the battle and its fallen.

Colour footage :Royal Canadian Navy officer and Canadian Army officer on ship, chatting with men (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).

[D-Day Invasion - Canadian Troops]

TAPE: EF03/0520 IN_TIME: 03:06:15 DURATION: 2:17 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Normandy, 6 June 2003 SHOTLIST: Normandy 1. Various aerial views of Normandy beaches Colleville-sur-Mer 2. Various of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (centre) and US Ambassador to France Howard H. Leach visiting cemetery where US soldiers are buried 3. Various of Raffarin and Leach laying wreath and holding one minute silence Courseulles-sur-Mer 4. Canadian honour guard in front of museum 5. Various of Raffarin (left) and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien unveiling bronze sculpture 6. War veterans watch 7. Close-up of sculpture 7. Various of Canadian paratroopers landing with giant-sized Canadian flag 8. Raffarin and Chretien lay wreath, hold one minute silence STORYLINE: Nearly 700 Canadian veterans gathered at a beach in Normandy, France to mark the 59th anniversary of D-Day - the name given to the World War Two Allied assault to free France from the Nazis. They were also commemorating the opening of the Juno Beach Centre, a museum and memorial honouring Canadians who fought in the Second World War. For decades, the strip of sand on the Atlantic Ocean code-named Juno Beach, where 21,000 Canadians landed on June 6, 1944, has been overshadowed by nearby Omaha Beach, the bloodiest D-Day battle site. Veterans groups sought to give Juno greater honor by opening a monument that is a testimony to the sacrifices of all Canadians, both on the battlefield and at home, during World War II. "Until now, there has been no Canadian memorial to mark these achievements," Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said at a finely orchestrated ceremony. "At the Juno Beach Centre, our grandchildren and their grandchildren will learn what their forebears did for freedom." Chretien and French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin unveiled a 2.5-metre (8-foot) bronze sculpture entitled "Remembrance and Renewal" that evokes the unity and camaraderie of the troops. "Every year on these beaches the French people honour the liberators," Raffarin said, while paying tribute to the "determination and courage" that drove them to liberate France. In total, nearly one-thousand Canadians died that day. A group of Canadian paratroopers in red and white jumped from a plane above the landing site on Friday, unfurling a giant-sized Canadian flag as they fell. The flag is to flutter above the new memorial. From helicopters overhead, 43,000 poppy flowers were dropped over the landing site, one for each Canadian soldier who died in the war. The streets of Normandy towns and villages were lined with American, British, Canadian and French flags. D-Day marked the first breach in Hitler's Atlantic wall, and eventually led to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Few of the troops who landed that day had any combat experience, and thousands were gunned down by German machine gun and mortar fire. Canadian troops led the assault at Juno, US forces stormed code-named Utah and Omaha beaches and British soldiers led an attack on Gold and Sword beaches. Also on Friday, American veterans, choir singers and tourists came together at the Normandy American Cemetery in nearby Colleville-sur-Mer to honour the US troops who also fought and died on D-Day. The cemetery contains the graves of thousands of soldiers, many of whom were cut down by enemy fire on Omaha.

ROME FALLS TO THE ALLIES