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Aerial view of one of the first American Airfields in France. Constructed by the IX Engineer Command.
Left:
Normandy
Coast
. Defensive flooding near Carentan.
Right:
Normandy Beaches. Low-level photograph showing beach defenses.
Left:
Landing zones. The bocage of the Normandy countryside necessitated extremely small landing zones.
Right:
American Wacos and their C-47 tug planes of the IX Troop Carrier Command. Arriving over the perilously small and hedgerow-enclosed landing zones near Sainte-Mère-Église on D-day.
Left:
British Hamilcar. With its front swung open to unload a Tetrach tank.
Right:
Wrecked Horsas. On the bank of the Caen Canal, 8 June 1944.
British Pathfinders synchronizing their watches before emplaning. These troops where among the first to land.
Left:
Tank depot at Mailly. Tank and truck depot in north-eastern France.40 miles southeast of Rheims, before the Bomber Command attack of the night of 4 – 5 May 1944.
Right:
Tank depot at Mailly. After Bomber Command attacked in strong force, dropping 1,500 tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs.
Left:
RAF Bombers attacking Boulogne Harbour. Bombs hit the S-boat and R-boat pens and dock (left) and the artillery arsenal (right), September 1943.
Right:
Bombed V-1 Launch Site in the Pas de Calais.
Bombed railway and bridge. Saumur, 1 June 1944.
Henschel Hs 293 Radio- Controlled glider bomb.
Video's:
Hawker Typhoon Rocket Attack video:
Allied Guncam:
Coastal Command - Convoy Attack:
Ninth Airforce Guncam:
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