Escenas del Desembarco de Normandía (B&W)

This is D-Day - Military Newsreel 1944

Scenes From D-Day, General Eisenhower Plans Normandy Invasion, Scenes Of German Defenses And Fortifications At Normandy, War Equipment Massed Ready For D-Day, Allied Troops Practice Their Part For D-Day.

General Eisenhower and his aides look at wall map as they plan the Normandy invasion.

German pictures show the extent of their coastal defenses of concrete and steel fortifications housing large coastal guns. Shows slave labor used to build these fortifications.

Across the English Channel the Allied Forces had amassed a huge number of tanks, guns, locomotives and other military equipment and supplies. Shows the naval armada assembled to transport the troops across the English Channel.

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. Excellent paratrooper footage. These Airborne Troops jumped into Normandy behind the German defenses.