Archive - Liberating Armies Invade Normandy
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This short film includes contains remarkable footage from several beaches on D-Day - but particularly Sword. You can clearly see just how tiny some of the Allied beach heads were in the immediate aftermath of the invasion - a huge amount of men, tanks, guns and supplies were being shipped into very small areas. An archive British Movietone film sourced from AP Archive.
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