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Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the news about victory of Allies over Normandy to the French people in France.

Activities of Allied troops during the invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A swastika sign on an animated map shows German occupied area in France and as a target for Allied troops to invade. American, Canadian and British troops prepare for the invasion. French soldiers of democracy board boats and leave the shore of England. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and South African Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding a landing craft. A map shows Allied landing on Normandy coast. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the news about the victory of Allies over Normandy which is broadcast to the French people. A radio operator and towers shown. French people listen to Eisenhower's speech. A man gives the news of Normandy invasion by Allied troops on a microphone. People applaud. Streets in London. People of London read newspapers stating 'Allied invaded in France'. Aircraft on the ground. Airborne paratroops board the aircraft. A general talks to the troops during the airborne operation. The aircraft in flight. Ships underway at sea. The navy and the air force blast Normandy shore positions.

Date: 1946
Duration: 5 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045256
Council of Foreign Ministers of France, Britain, Russia and the United States at a meeting at Luxembourg Palace in Paris.

Council of Foreign Ministers of France, Britain, Russia and the United States at a meeting at Luxembourg Palace in Paris, France. The Foreign Ministers Georges Bidault of France, Ernest Bevin British Secretory of Foreign Affairs, Russian Vyacheslav Molotov and Foreign Secretory of United States James F. Byrnes step out of their cars and proceed towards the meeting hall. They shake hands and greet each other. A round table conference to decide a final peace treaty after the World War II.

Date: 1946, June 15
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036077
Famous paintings of Louvre Museum are brought back in Paris, France.

Musee du Louvre in Paris, France. A view of the Louvre Museum (99 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris France). Famous paintings in the museum are brought back on trucks after six years, following the end of World War 2. Trucks loaded with big wooden cases contain the paintings that had been relocated to protect them during the war from damage and prevent theft of the art by Nazi German forces. The cases arrive in one of the Louvre Museum's courts. A sign reads 'Entree Musee'. Cases unloaded and brought into the museum while Garde Mobile (National Guard of France) men watch with machine guns.

Date: 1946, March
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053943
U.S. Ambassador to France Caffery at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris and U.S. military cemetery in Suresnes in France.

Memorial Day in Paris, France. U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery with officials. The ambassador lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A guard helps the ambassador. The officer behind the ambassador salutes. The ambassador signs on a book. The wreath has a band across it which reads 'American Overseas Memorial Day Association'. U.S. military cemetery in Suresnes. American and French flags beside the graves. U.S. soldiers walk between the graves. U.S. troops march in the cemetery. Jefferson Caffery arrives with officials. U.S. Airborne Battalion marches in the cemetery. The soldiers stand at attention. They fire a volley over the cemetery. The Airborne Battalion stands in formation along a pathway. The officials review the troops. French and American troops march along a road during the parade. People on both sides of the road watch the parade. U.S. Ambassador Caffery and the officials salute. The Ambassador and the officials talking.

Date: 1946, June
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055094
U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery and other officials at the tomb of Lafayette in Picpus Cemetery in Paris, France.

American Independence Day in Paris, France. Several people at the tomb of Lafayette in Picpus Cemetery. A number of U.S. flags at the tomb of Lafayette in the cemetery. Several tombs at the cemetery. U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery and other officials at the tomb of General Lafayette. A wreath being laid at the tomb. 'Lafayette' inscribed on the tombstone. Officials gathered around the tomb. A flag presented by Count de Chambrun to the ambassador. Jefferson Caffery and other officials converse. The ambassador with the flag. Flags at the cemetery. Several tombs in the cemetery enclosed by small fences. People filing out of the cemetery.

Date: 1946, October
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055095
Military and civilian applications of radar and electronics

1946 Film about military and civilian applications of radar and electronics. View of the LaGuardia Airport Administration Building (passenger terminal) in New York, with control tower and various antennas on its roof. A TWA Constellation and DC-3 airplane on the airport ramp, as another aircraft is on the final approach to land. Commercial cargo vessels in New York harbor (Statue of Liberty barely seen in the misty background). A passenger railroad train speeding along the tracks. Radar returns shown on a plan position radar scope, tracking weather returns. Tropical storm hitting a seaside area. Scientists and technicians at work in a laboratory filled with electronic equipment. View of buildings at U.S. Army Signal Corps' Camp Evans, New Jersey. Sign above one entrance reads: "Evans Signal Laboratory." Inside the laboratory, images created by radar signals bounced off the moon are seen on a radar scope, during "Project Diana," on January 10, 1946. View of the Army's GB-4 radio controlled television glide bomb, suspended on a chain inside a building. It rotates around showing various views. Scene shifts to a launching track outdoors at a coastal facility, where a glide bomb takes off raising smoke as it accelerates along the launch path. Next, a GB-4 glide bomb is released from underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. It is seen flying away from the aircraft. Inside the aircraft, a crew member views its progress by means of television images received from a transmitter in the front of the bomb. Glimpse of the television images. View from the ground of the GB-4 bomb gliding to the ground and exploding. Views of a German V-2 rocket at Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Ground , New Mexico, where it was being tested by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1946. Inside a control room, an Army technician gives the signal to launch, and the V-2 rocket fires and rises straight into the sky, with its fiery tail visible as it gains altitude. More views of scientists, engineers, and technicians inside a Signal Corps electronics laboratory. Soldiers being trained in radar technology, seated at an electronic array. An army staff sergeant technician working on radar components. A variety of different radar antennas rotating outdoors.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038745