FRANCE/ FILE : ELEVEN YEARS AFTER D-DAY: (1955)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit FRANCE: ELEVEN YEARS AFTER D-DAY: (2014 - story dated 1955 includes ceremony at Cemetary in Normandy attended by Henry, Duke of Gloucester /war graves FILE from 1944 of burnt out aicraft and British soldiers running through the streets of Normandy fighting / soldiers /parachute regiments climbing into planes for d-day invasion / little ships with men preparing to land on Normandy beaches /Aircraft cover for the invadiing ships / amphibous craft landing on beach/ men running ashore (audio of gunfire) / sign for Montebourg/ Cherbourg / street fighting - 1955 pegasus bridge landing and sign and emplacement which was captured in June 1944/ man walking concrete gun bunker / General Richard Gale viewing battlefield / memorial plaque at Ranville with wreaths / people making pilgrimage / General Montgomery at cemetary meeting relatives of falled soldiers and members of the French
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