Epic Pictures of World War II,
Castle Films, 1945

Group 6 - Pictures 31 through 36

31. JUNE 6. 1944 D-DAY. INVASION OF NORMANDY June 6. 1944, sees the great Allied invasion of France and the establishing of beachheads all along the Normandy coast. Here, American troops pour out of an assault boat and wade to a beach already secured.

32. ALLIES INVADE SOUTHERN FRANCE (Aug. 1944) Southern France is invaded in August. with little opposition from German forces already weakened by the pressing demands of the Normandy and Russian fronts.

33. PARIS LIBERATED (Aug. 1944) On August 25. 1944. Paris is liberated and American troops in battle array and ready for instant action march through the Arc de Triomphe.

34. SEPT. 11. 1944 YANKS CROSS SIEGFRIED LINE After a lightning sweep through France and Belgium. infantrymen of the 90th Division are among the first Americans to invade Germany. moving in through the concrete dragon’s teeth of Hitler’s vaunted Siegfried line north of Trier.

35. OCT. 20, 1944 MacARTHUR INVADES LEYTE—PHILIPPINES General Douglas MacArthur who sold, “I will returnl” when ordered by President Roosevelt to escape from Corregidor in 1942, makes good his promise on Octaber 20, 1944.

36. HITLER AT THE FRONT On December 21, 1944, the great “Battle of the Bulge” begins and Von Rundstedt’s armies score a temporary success. A German film captured by the U. S. Army Si,gnal Corps shows a grim-faced Adolph Hitler inspecting bamb destruction in a recaptured German town.

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