1.
GV PAN.PROMENADE AND DESERTED BEACHES AT ARROMANCHES.
0.08

2.
CU SIGN: "ARROMANCHES".
0.10

3.
LV CONCRETE SECTION OF ARTIFICIAL HARBOUR.
0.13

4.
SCU SIGNPOST: "OMAHA BEACH" (2 SHOTS).
0.17

5.
GV PAN. DESERTED BEACH.
0.24

6.
CU SIGN: "PLACE DU DEBARQUEMENT"
0.26

7.
SV MONUMENT ON BEACH (3 SHOTS).
0.34

8.
SV PAN. GUN EMPLACEMENT OVER BEACH.
0.38

9.
CU SIGN: "ETAH" BEACH.
0.40

10.
LV RELICS ON U.S. MUSEUM SECTION OF BEACH.
0.44

11.
LV TANKS, ETC.
0.47

12.
CU SIGN: "ICI ONT DEBARQUE LES ARMEES AMERICAINES
0.49

13.
CU SIGN: "OLLE ROAD".
0.51

14.
SCU GUN & US FLAG.
0.53

15.
LV MONUMENT.
0.56

16.
CU SIGN: "ST.MERE-EGLISE".
0.59

17.
LV CHURCH.
1.02

18.
AV PAN. STEEPLE AND ROOF.
1.09

19.
CU PAN."LA DELIVRANDE".
1.14

20.
TRACKING SHOT: PAST GRAVES.
1.27

21.
CU GRAVE (4 SHOTS).
1.36

22.
LV CEREMONY IN PROGRESS.
1.38

23.
SV BRITISH MARINES.
1.40

24.
CU PAN. SIR PIERSEN DIXON (CIVILIAN) INSPECTS TROOPS.
1.50

25.
SV U.S. TROOPS LINED UP.
1.52

26.
LV TROOPS.
1.55

27.
SLV GENERAL BRADLEY ARRIVES.
1.58

28.
LV RELIGIOUS SERVICE.
2.00

29.
CU GENERAL BRADLEY DURING SERVICE.
2.04

30.
LV SERVICE CONTINUES.
2.06

31.
AV PAN. ALLIED FLAGS.
2.12

32.
TGV SERVICE CONTINUES.
2.15



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Background: THE NORMANDY BEACHES WERE "INVADED" AGAIN YESTERDAY BY DETACHMENTS FROM THE ARMED FORCES OF BRITAIN, CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. THEY HAD LANDED TO TAKE PART IN THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY - THE BEGINNING OF THE ALLIED DRIVE AGAINST GERMAN-OCCUPIED EUROPE.

NOW THE BEACHES ARE DESERTED AND QUIET, AND THE REMAINS OF THE TANKS AND GERMAN BUNKERS ARE OVERGROWN WITH LONG GRASS. APART FROM THE RUINED GERMAN DEFENCES, THE MEMORIALS AND THE REBUILT VILLAGES, THERE IS LITTLE TO REMIND THE VISITORS OF THE FATEFUL DAY TWENTY YEARS AGO.

AT ARROMANCHES THE GREAT CONCRETE BLOCKS WHICH WERE TOWED ACROSS THE CHANNEL TO FORM THE FAMOUS MULBERRY HARBOUR, ARE STILL VISIBLE, HALF SUNKEN AND TILTED ALONG THE COAST NEAR THE LITTLE TOWN.

THE FIRST OF THE CEREMONIES, HELD YESTERDAY, WAS AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY AT LA DELIVRANDE, NEAR THE SEA. THE CEMETERY CONTAINS MANY GRAVES OF MEN KILLED DURING THE NORTHERN ADVANCE OF CAEN.

AT THE SIMPLE CEREMONY, GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY, COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN ASSAULT FORCES, HEADED A GROUP OF FAMOUS SOLDIERS - AMONG THEM GENERAL MATTHEW RIDGWAY AND GENERAL SIR RICHARD GALE,WHO COMMANDED THE 6TH AIRBORNE DIVISION. QUEEN ELIZABETH WAS REPRESENTED BY SIR PIERSON DIXON, THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR IN PARIS. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAS REPRESENTED BY LORD JELLICOE, MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE (NAVY). LEADING THE FRENCH CONTINGENT WAS M. JEAN SAINTENEY, MINISTER FOR EX-SERVICEMEN.

CONTINGENTS FROM THE THREE BRITISH SERVICES, AND THE CANADIAN, FRENCH AND AMERICAN ARMIES STOOD TO ATTENTION AMONG THE SIMPLE GRAVESTONES. WITH THEM WERE THE MEN IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES, WEARING ROWS OF MEDALS, WHO SILENTLY REMEMBERED THE BITTER FIGHTING THAT JUNE DAY TWENTY YEARS AGO.