Within steel and concrete emplacements, the germans have amassed every known weapon of defense, whether those weapons are enough to face the allied onslaught will be proven in the struggle that waits ahead. Here is the other side of the channel, britain, and armed camp bristling with guns and tanks. Here is the fruition of four years of planning and production or if you are the claims of england as the allied armies awaited dday. Locomotives built to run on continental railways, freight cars and tank cars to replace Rolling Stock destroyed by the germans. All this and more is included in the gigantic preparation or invasion. For invasion here is something of the gigantic naval armada, assembled to transfer the allied armies across the english channel. Here is something of the ingenuity of allied engineers, assault boats and invasion barges launched directly from the decks of the ships that brought them to england. The fleet grew in numbers, steel ships of every description, ships expre
Information on our schedule and keep up with the latest history news. Each week, American History tv features archival films for it is by the u. S. Government, industry and Educational Institution is taking on a vivid journey into the american past. In england, general dwight d. Eisenhower and his deputy commanders chart the liberation of the lost continent. They plan when and where the the mighty armies of the United Nations will strike. Northern france is that battleground. To the building of their defense system, the socalled west wall, the nazis poured the slave labor up conquered nations, pictures made by the germans himself to impress their satellites with the strength and invincibility of their fortifications. Within steel and concrete emplacements for years in the making the germans have amassed , every known weapon of defense, but whether those weapons are enough to face the allied onslaught will be proven in the struggle that lies ahead. Here is the other side of the channel.
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