Video summary of the Normandy landings on 6 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 dates: 5, 6 and 12 June 1944
Subject: military news footage showing the departure of paratroopers and airborne soldiers to Normandy and the landings on Utah, Sword and Juno Beaches. The air force is also featured with images of ground attacks by Allied fighter planes. Finally, there is a focus on Allied political and military leaders such as Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who visited Normandy on 12 June 1944.
Locations:
– Utah Beach, Manche, Normandy
– Pointe du Hoc, Calvados, Normandy
– Omaha Beach, Calvados, Normandy
– Juno Beach, Calvados, Normandy
– Sword Beach, Calvados, Normandy
Personalities:
– Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
– Field Marshal Jan C. Smuts (Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa)
– General of the Army George C. Marshall (US Chief of Staff)
– Admiral Ernest J. King (Commander of the US Navy)
– General Dwight D. Eisenhower (SHAEF)
– Field Marshal Sir Alan F. Brooke (Chief of Staff of the Allied Executive Command)
– Lieutenant General Henry A. Arnold (Commander of the US Army Air Force)
– Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery (21st Army Group)
– Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley (1st Army Group)
– Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Vian (Eastern Task Force)
– Admiral Alan G. Kirk (Western Task Force)
– Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges (Second in Command of the 1st US Army)
Units:
– 3rd (GB) Infantry Division
– 4th (US) Infantry Division
– 82nd (US) Infantry Division
– 101st (US) Infantry Division
Source =: US National Archives