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United States soldiers and French Forces in Chartres, France (WW2)

Chartres captured by Allied forces during World War II. A sign reads 'Chartres'. Press correspondents and civilians behind trucks. They dodge snipers. United States soldiers fire tommy guns and rifles at snipers. A soldier firing a rifle near a closed Epicerie (French grocery shop). A soldier stands behind an iron gate and fires. U.S. Soldiers and French soldiers run. Crowd stands behind gates of prefecture. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) and Gendarmes (French national police) with a collaborator. A group of men and women collaborators. Women collaborators with heads shaved are paraded in front of the town hall (Mairie). Cathedral Notre Dame de Chartres or Chartres Cathedral (16 Cloître Notre Dame, 28000 Chartres, France). Cathedral spires in view. Snipers march on streets. They are marched to jail. Nazi German snipers with hands on their heads. Crowd waves behind jail. Group of snipers are taken through streets. A priest looks up. (World War II period).

Location: Chartres France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053924
British soldiers fight the Nazis in Lisieux and General Charles De Gaulle visits Chartres en route to Paris liberation

British soldiers enter the town of Lisieux, France. Armed British soldiers patrol the streets. Soldiers walk past the destroyed buildings. Firing and bombardment. Soldiers and British tanks fire at Nazis hiding in the town. A French civilian woman brings a glass of water and a pitcher to a prone British soldier firing at German positions from a street corner. Soldier prone firing a machine gun. People in the town of Chartres, a center of resistance. A young woman resistance soldier talks to an Allied French soldier. French General Charles De Gaulle and other officers greeted by the town on August 23, 1944. De Gaulle addressed the town to commend their resistance. De Gaulle looks at the Chateau de Rambouillet in Rambouillet, France, from where he directed the French armored divisions in their push to Paris. Views of the palace, gardens, and a lake at the Chateau de Rambouillet with Charles De Gaulle standing beside the lake. (World War II period).

Location: Lisieux France
Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021091
Men locate and mark mines on road in Chartres, France.

Chartres captured in France. Men locate and mark mines on road. A land mine is blown. Smoke rises up. Two engineers bend down and mark mines. Engineers prepare to detonate mine. Jeeps and other Allied soldiers in the background. A land mine is blown. (World War II period).

Location: Chartres France
Date: 1944
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053923
Brigadier General Plank and staff look at road maps at a supply convoy stop in Chartres, France.

Red Ball Convoy of Allied Forces in Chartres, France. A sign reads '24th Reg Station, Supply Convoy, Stop'. People stand near the sign. Officers stand under a tent. Brigadier General Plank and staff look at road maps. Trucks loaded with supplies pass along a road. (World War II period).

Location: Chartres France
Date: 1944, August 31
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054521
German prisoners unload rations from supply trucks in Chartres, France.

Red Ball Convoy of Allied forces in Chartres, France. Trucks loaded with supplies parked along a road. German prisoners unload rations. German prisoners stockpile them near Ablis. A United States guard patrols. Trees in the background. A sign reads 'Classic, QM Supplies'. Stockpiled rations in view. (World War II period).

Location: Chartres France
Date: 1944, August 31
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054522
United States African American troops unload and stock ammunition at a dump in Chartres, France.

Allied Forces Red Ball Convoy in Chartres, France. A sign reads 'Stop, Army Ammunition Depot'. Men stand near the sign. Convoy supply trucks parked along a road. United States African American troops unload and stock ammunition at a dump near Lachapele. The ammunition is kept on fields. 105 mm shells in a stockpile. 75 mm cartridge cases are stacked in a depot. German prisoners unload and stock ammunition at the dump near Lachapele. (World War II period).

Location: Chartres France
Date: 1944, August 31
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054523
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