It was called “D- Day” and it illustrated the Allie’s storming Omaha beach, jumping from planes into battle, and battle ships preparing for war. Though, despite it being somber and violent event, the whole footage is being played under very upbeat and cheerful music. The soundtrack was played over a scene of men running onto a beach and explosions going off seemingly everywhere else but where the one soldier is being filmed. You never see a man being shot, a dead soldier, or people really suffering in anyway shape or form. It’s essentially depicted as a scene from a movie.
The first hand account of men who were at Normandy described soldiers drowning from the weight of their packs, being shot and left for dead, and navigating through a flurry of hellish explosion. None of which was seen in newsreels. War news footage prior to the Vietnam War was flawed. It hadn’t shown the true nature of war and the treachery it entails. This is why the broadcast news on the Vietnam War was so traumatic to the American public. They were not use seeing such wretched scenes in