Video summarizing the Normandy landings in June 1944
D-Day and Battle of Normandy videos
This section contains archive videos illustrating military operations in the Utah Beach sector during the Battle of Normandy.
Video date: June 1944
Subject: Summary of the Normandy landings, including the crossing of the English Channel, the landings at Omaha Beach, Juno Beach, and Utah Beach, the American parachute drops in the Cotentin Peninsula, and the arrival of the Allied military leaders (General Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces; General Montgomery, Commander of the 21st Army Group; General Bradley, Commander of the First Army; and Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, Commander of the Western Task Force).
Location:
– Normandy
– English Channel
Personalities:
– General Omar N. Bradley (1st US Army)
– General Dwight D. Eisenhower (SHAEF)
– Admiral Alan G. Kirk (Western Task Force)
– Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (21st Army Group)
Units:
– 1st (US) Infantry Division
– 4th (US) Infantry Division
– 82nd (US) Airborne Division
– 101st (US) Airborne Division
– 3rd (CA) Infantry Division
– Western Task Force
Source: US National Archives