The Best Film Archives's video: D-Day Landings: Beachhead to Berlin WW2 Documentary in Color 1944

● Please SUPPORT my work on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2LT6opZ ● Visit my 2ND CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/2ILbyX8 ►Facebook: https://bit.ly/2INA7yt ►Twitter: https://bit.ly/2Lz57nY ►Google+: https://bit.ly/2IPz7dl ✚ Watch my "WW2 in Europe" PLAYLIST: https://bit.ly/2HEkWHl This 1944 film – originally titled as "Beachhead to Berlin" – is a rare World War 2-era color documentary produced by the Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) for the U. S. Department of Defense about the historical event known as the Allied Invasion of Normandy. The film centers on the activities of the Coast Guard on D-Day, from practice maneuvers to the amphibious landings. It also documents the aftermath of the Normandy invasion. The film was shot by Coast Guard photographers and supervised by American movie producer Gordon Hollingshead. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT The Western Allies of World War 2 launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they attacked Normandy, located on the northern coast of German-held France, on 6 June 1944. The invaders were able to establish a beachhead as part of Operation Overlord after a successful "D-Day," the first day of the invasion. Allied land forces came from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Free French forces. In the weeks following the invasion, Polish forces and contingents from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece and the Netherlands participated in the ground campaign; most also provided air and naval support alongside elements of the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the Royal Norwegian Navy. The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air raids and naval shelling. In the early morning, amphibious landings commenced on five beaches codenamed Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah, with troops from the United States landing on Omaha and Utah, Great Britain landing on Gold and Sword and Canada landing on Juno. During the evening the remaining elements of the airborne divisions landed. Land forces used on D-Day sailed from bases along the south coast of England, the most important of these being Portsmouth. For more information about Invasion of Normandy, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings D-Day Landings: Beachhead to Berlin | WW2 Documentary in Color | 1944 TBFA_0192 NOTE: THIS VIDEO DOCUMENTS HISTORICAL EVENTS. THE VIDEO HAS BEEN UPLOADED WITH EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. ITS TOPIC IS REPRESENTED WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT.