D-Day - 1944

Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/transcripts/transcript-d-day-39013.pdf

CREATED BY
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945)

SUMMARY
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.


REPOSITORY:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

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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

MORE INFORMATION:
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http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=39013

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• english channel
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