DEFENCE: World War 2: Invasion of Europe (1944)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit The Second Front opens at last. First rush pictures of greatest event in military history? Full Description: LV people in street buying newspapers. STV taking papers from pile. SV people scrambling for papers. SV man with paper. CU reading headlines of papers. - INVASION OF EUROPE BEGINS“ CU man reading paper, pan down and looking up “WE INVADE“. Actual bombing of German defence targets - embarkation of Airborne troops - Subsequent flight over channel. Big GV pan paratroop carrier planes lined up on ’drome. LV pan paratroops marching to plane. Sv Paratroops in line walking to plane. SV paratroops in line walking to plane. Shot from inside plane of troops getting in. GV planes lined up - Officers and men in f.g. SV General Brereton giving rabbit’s foot to paratroop. GV plane taking off. Angle shot General Brereton waving go
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