(6 Jun 2025)
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France – June 1944
1. Slate – "First Pictures – Invasion of France"
2. Slate – "Official Pictures by Newsreel Correspondents, U.S. Signal Corps, Air Forces, Navy, Coast Guard and Canadian Film Unit."
3. Various views of planes dropping bombs and shooting at planes on the ground
4. Various ships with soldiers on board approaching coastline and firing guns
5. Various battle at sea
6. Various troops walking from ships onto land
7. Various captured German troops
8. Various wounded allied soldiers
STORYLINE:
Veterans were gathering Friday on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime.
Tens of thousands of onlookers are expected to attend the commemorations, which include parachute jumps, remembrance ceremonies, parades, and historical re-enactments.
Many will be there to cheer the ever-dwindling number of surviving veterans in their late 90s and older. All will remember the thousands who died.
The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France used the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to breach Hitler’s defenses in western Europe. A total of 4,414 Allied troops were killed on D-Day itself.
In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 wounded. The battle — and especially Allied bombings of French villages and cities — killed around 20,000 French civilians.
The exact German casualties are unknown, but historians estimate between 4,000 and 9,000 men were killed, wounded or missing during the D-Day invasion alone.
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