Westminster abbey. These are the themes that i want to photograph on one sunday afternoon. Another area that intrigued me was marvel are. On one sunday afternoon it was full of all. You must remember london was being bombed almost every night and this particular time. I was photographing these speakers that were addressing the crowds. Every speaker was speaking on a different subject, but the no one wased around hurt. The people and the audience were arguing back with the speakers. Just typical shots of how we passed the time waiting for dday. Most of the children who lived in england were sent out of the city. A lot of them had to remain behind. In spite of the war, they managed to find entertainment. I was rather surprised to see these children drinking at of Community Drinking cups. I like to take candid shots of the children so they did not notice me, but every once in while they did. We discovered st. Pauls cathedral had been hit several times but not bad. This is the way they paraded up and down when they werent performing for the camera. They were actually doing their duty. London had the lens all over the area and if it was not or the equipment is brought into the country that the allens would sink into the sea. The balloons they said was holding it up. To that foodmber, was pretty scarce in london at this time. It was being brought in whatever the way they could and being unloaded. It is not often you get a bright day like this in the spring in london, and this was an opportunity to show what shoulders soldiers were doing while waiting for the invasion. This is fleet street. The irish policeman guarding the street where we saw considerable damage in the area. Soon we were down on the south coast of england where he met the other correspondence scheduled to cross the channel with us. He will probably recognize some of the oldtimers who cover the war at that particular time. To defendn a shovel myself and proved to be a valuable instrument. Covering thewas war for cbs. Jack thompson of the chicago tribune. This is a closeup of jack thompson. This is Larry Oreilly of the associated press. Farewells because we were expected to meet again in paris. We seek loftily of ins and Bill Stoneman who came from the daily news. Several other correspondence a military truck to be taken to the south coast. We went through small reddish towns. Life was going on as usual. People were in the marketplace by include as though nothing was going on. For 150 miles, that is how we felt in an army vehicle. We found that plymouth was badly damaged and that a lot of the village was completely destroyed. This was all over the area. Soon, we approached the dock area and we found american jeeps that were ready to be boarded aboard Landing Craft. Notice the bumpers. They are designed to cut wires. We were not allowed to Wander Around the area. Each crossroad point was under guard with an american and a british soldier. You had to show it to them. This was the care that was taken. The secret of the invasion had to be kept as long as it could. These are the men west of pains haynes. We went aboard lci. Pete carroll came from boston and was a photographer for the associated press. We try to keep our mind off of what was coming and we knew that it would be a short time before we would be on board. We had our first taste of care rations, which did not taste bad if you were hungry. You could see the beautiful countryside in that area and these are the sort of shots that i want to bring home to show my family and friends. Pete carroll used some of his film to make a few shots. Soon, we were down at the docks and we found units with the 101st airborne. There were boarding aircraft see craft seacrafts. He we see several units during grenades and bazookas. They did not have an opportunity to load this aboard jeeps because they were not fully available at this particular moment. We were aboard a fleet of lcis. The captain on the right, the captain of our ship, lieutenant patton, was in command of lci number five. We felt confident that he knew what he was doing. We stayed aboard the ship for almost five days. This is the commander of the squadron. I remember lieutenant patton well because we were with him for so long. We were trying to get ready for the trip into paris. These are the unit troops amusing themselves. I do not have to tell you who this man is intimidating imitating. He was a noted Football Player and killed in the action. We had a mascot. Ours was no different. The boys provided for their mascot. They made a light preserver like the ones they wore themselves. And, one afternoon, lieutenant patton briefed the crew and told them that we would be selling this afternoon. They let out a cheer because this was the job they were waiting for. They want to get it done and go home. Here is the Commander Moving out into the channel. This is a tremendous sight to see. Ships from one end to the other. Ships of all kinds. They tell me that there were over 1000 ships. This was just another exercise as we continued on. We felt that we would be turned around and have to go back another day. As we continued on, we knew it was the real thing. There was a scare that said that there was a submarine in the area. There were some bombs thrown into the channel. They exploded. We never saw any attack at all. Here are some scenes from the beach where the ships made a turn and headed for the area where we were going to land. That is a de boat in the distance. We were on alert for any kind of attack, even airplane. Our air force did their job well and, at no time, did the germans attack. Two planes attempted to strafe the beach and i was in the area. My camera was reduced to 16 millimeter. This seen of men going to shore was taken from an automatic camera on a british aircraft. They were the first men to land. It was taken by an automatic camera because they want to have a record of what happened if the landing failed. Here are some scenes of the landing on the utah beach. This is how they went to sure. As the british beach. Did you notice that the men did not to shore after being on a Landing Craft or five solid days . The men did not dash to shore after being on a Landing Craft for five solid days. A lot of the boys did not make it. Here is pete carroll and haynes carrying the equipment and the ship is grounded on the beach. The section of the beach we were on was attacked by enemy fire. In the previous shot, you could see the bomb landing not far from where we were. There it is again. The bulldozers were trying to clear roads to let our tanks move forward. Even though it was june, the area was quite cold, as it usually is in that part of normandy. Men dug foxholes a little deeper. There was a concrete wall that helped serve as protection. Even now, we are taking some of the wounded back to the beach so that it can be transferred so that they can be transferred. Those who went to ground had to wait. Soon, we had some of the first prisoners taken in the area on the first day. They were captured close to the beach and were sent back to england because there was no room to take them keep them there. This is general collins, on the left, talking to some of his officers and we were able to get some of the first hot food. I did not realize how hungry i was until i saw these pictures. There is larry and bob. Bob was covering the war. A company it kept me very busy. I used up all the film i had had and went back to france to get some more. I went to have a bath because i did not have my close off that entire time. The landing in england almost looks like the cliffs of dover that everyone is familiar with. It is a beautiful site to see the coast of england and know that i could get some rest. I did not realize at that time that the buzz bombs would come over and here are some of them coming over the english coast line. These were a terror weapon. The british were quick to set up machine guns to knock them out of the sky and managed to shoot down quite a few. They sent planes into the sky to knock them out of the air and, of course, sometimes they did get through and, where they fell, they caused considerable damage. You mustve missed that good shooting. There is one coming down that landed in the london area. Where ever they landed, they caused considerable damage. My Second Crossing of the channel was made on an lst. This was with units of the Armored Division that were bringing more takes in tanks and vehicles. The lst was manned by a british crew. That is the captain in the british uniform. There was equipment that was sorely needed. The ships are actually waiting for the tide to receipt so that they can send more equipment ashore without going through deepwater. On dday, they had to go through the deep water. They are waiting for the rams to be rebuilt after a severe storm so that they could go ashore without damage. Now, you can see the problems that they had. When the Landing Craft hit the sand bar, they found deeper water ahead. Those who had life preservers to low went turtle and drowned. This is the army heading in and crossing the deep spot ahead of them. This is a remarkable sight and ships were lined up as far as the eye could see to bring supplies on shore. We thought we could use it as a port. We found that this was badly destroyed by the germans. They had destroyed the docs, which we had thought we could use. It took almost two months before we can bring a ship in. They set up mines and destroyed the famous stocks where the transatlantic landers used to land. They not only destroyed the docks, but they destroy the bridges. This was one that was destroyed by the germans. Soon, the french people came back into the city and gave us a warm welcome. Soon, we found prisoners. They had taken 16 16,00018,000 men out of the area and were holding their belongings. They had to be transported to england and to the United States to be held in pow camps. At this time, those who could talk to us or would talk to us said that we would be back in the channel in less than a week. At every headquarters, we found a picture of hitler and our boys are using it as a pin board. Americans had a way of amusing themselves. Here is the First Official ceremony held in france. General collins presented a flag made out of parachute cloth to the mayor, who is holding the microphone. Our boys were given clean uniforms for the occasion. Soon, the people who came back after the fighting stopped visited with us and talked to us. Here we see someone talking to the kernel of the signal corps. This is burt, shooting for ap. Cecil and john. Here is oh gosh a lot has happened to my memory the troops begin to move in the opposite direction and we were passing through a city that was completely destroyed. I was there several times as the war and it has been rebuilt. The germans try to make a stand here and, wherever they did, we had to knock them out and destroy the city. Later on, i had the chance to see the construction built by slave labor. All a long the beach in the normandy area, they had the triangles. Many of them had mines. If you touch them, they would explode. I was told after that walk that i should be careful not to step where the ground is soft. This is a church that the germans evacuated because the commander like the little town so much that he did not want to see it destroyed. They withdrew, rather than let it be destroyed. It is a fishing boat. The hotel is intact and serves excellent french food. Further down the coast, we found fortifications built by slave labor and metal fences to keep us from landing in the area. These heavy fortifications were many feet perfect thick. In some areas, the germans sought to it that they were destroyed and that we could not use them against them if we tried to take them back. They even destroyed their own weapons. We noticed that the walls and fortifications were very day and thick and strong. The area was taken over by the navy and there was an observation post. This is near a town and there is the lighthouse at the point that separated normandie from brittany normandy from britany. Soon, we set up and fired in british physicians. People were bringing british positions. People were bringing in the crops and this surprised me. There were heavy guns causing terrific concussion and it was difficult to hold a handheld camera. The americans built an airstrip in the area not far from the coast. They used a strip that was supported by metal wire to keep the airplanes from sinking into the ground. They are using it as a place to take off from with 500 pound bombs. Frequently, the bombs would break loose. Even though they were armed, they had to be disarmed and taken off of the runway. These rp47s are p47s. There is a bomb under each wing. Notice these planes taking off and raising considerable dust. They managed to get off a short runway. Here, you notice a buckle underneath the wheels and the sometimes caused mesh wire to break and hit the planes propeller, causing it to crash. Here is an unfortunate accident with two of our planes. Here, we see pictures made by automatic cameras that were installed in fighter planes. When a pilot reports that he had shut down an enemy plane, he was not giving credit unless the pictures prove that the airplane was shut down shot down. Automatic cameras would operate in conjunction with a machine you can see the pilot jumping out of the airplane in the shot. You can see that airplanes are carrying extra fuel tanks underneath the wings and, whenever bullets hit that tank, the airplane would explode, as you see here. When you see shots like this, you know that the pilot never got back. One of the highlights of our trip was on a river that separated places. This is bob of time magazine. I know there is a member of the audience who knew bob and he was eventually killed when he was covering the war in indochina where the french were fighting. This is the hotel run by madame. She serves delicious omelettes. That is her and the hotel in the background. A lot of correspondence gathered here. We were close to the front line, if you can call it that. There, we see the river that separates it. This is a Beautiful Island and the building at the top is a monastery that is still intact. It was not destroyed at all. Here are some of our gis looking at the sites of the monastery and being shown around by a woman guide. Soon, we met some of the other correspondence that we knew and here, we see charles, the he had written many stories for the new yorker and died not many years ago. This is charles and helen. This is our earnest hemingway. He was covering it and we met him. Here he is talking to bill walton, who, incidentally, became a fast friend of president kennedy. These are moments where we could take a little time out to rest. There is helen and, the man in the center of the picture is ill stringer, who was killed trying to get into paris. One of the things that correspondence try to do was get into paris before anyone else and he was hit by a shell. This is a moment of relaxation. We had a few and these are the shots that i want to bring home to the family and friends. The Little Island it was very quaint. It was a very old place. It was fortified in several ways. We discover that the beaches on the area were high and dry and had sticks in the sand to keep planes from landing. We found a family of brothers. Even the tall blonde one their parents were killed at a battle. One afternoon, rather late, i walked up behind the island and, as the sun was setting, there was interesting shots of the island. The have an extremely high tide here and it would leave the island high and dry. The tide would come in fast and there was danger of quicksand. I did not stand in one place for too long. The receding waters left an unusual design in the sand. We did not stay very long. We continued on. The boys had found a lake there. The countryside was beautiful. It was during the summer. The crop were still in the field. Had been washing out of a helmet for many weeks. They decided to use the Beautiful Lake for a bass. Hey were fighting the enemy incidentally you probably recall the germans held out at saint mollo were many months, almost until the end of the war. Of course the american sense of humor that helped them win the war, to. Here are some of the correspondence we sometimes travel together and found a little river that proved to be useful as a bath. There are lots of small rivers. At every moment we can spare the correspondence, group of numb. Joe priestly. One of the many actors and actresses that came to normandy to entertain the troops. I found out later the intermission had to be called when the shells came too close. All you had to do was point the camera at robinson and he acted. This was the headquarter for the correspondence that came there. George stevens was a hollywood director. He went to the pacific where he was killed. George stevens was a very no wellknown hollywood director. The important thing was to destroy the enemy and they did not consider paris as a target. It would delay them if they try to take the city themselves. They wanted to circumvent the they wanted to get the honor to the french. General mcclary was in command of the second Armored Division. He refused to let the correspondence accompany his force to get into the city. Not wantcause he did any shots made until he had the city secure. Parise glad to see because it was a city of great at theand we were amazed way the people turned out. These are some of the shots taken on the first day of liberation. I did not get enough of the shots because there was too much to do. Soon the general came into the city and paraded down the street. Here he is taking the suit salute. The goal was not wellknown at this time. It became very popular. Everyone in paris turned out to sea to call degaul. It was a tremendous site to see. Later in the day our own troops paraded down the avenue. This is something that made us all proud. Here he is parading. From forcesring that were left behind. From within the city trying to panic the people. If you stuck your head out the window, you are bound to lose it. This went on continuously for several hours. I was in the middle of this thing. These are shots i took of people lying flat on the ground. We could not move the car while they were trying to get the people to stop shooting by raising white flag. It went on continuously and there was mall armed fire. Not taking any chances. This is the way the streets of paris looked on the day of liberation. They did catch some of the people responsible for the shooting. At least they told us that. Unfortunately they beat them to death right on the spot. A rather ugly sight to see. Some of the buildings that contain germans that were the headquarter points. They were sworn at by the french. These are the the