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German Luftwaffe bombers drop bombs over Le Havre at night during the Battle of France, World War II.

German invasion of France during the Battle of France in World War II. A fleet of German Luftwaffe aircraft in flight over Le Havre. German bombers drop bombs over the city at night. Nazi pilots in the aircraft. The aircraft drop bombs. Views from cockpit or gun cameras as German aircraft dive toward targets in Le Havre. Explosions on the ground. Burning targets. German aircraft bomb English transport ships in the English Channel off the coast of Le Havre. Explosions in the water. he German fleet in flight. Explosions due to the bombardment.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021832
Controversy idles Merchant marine crews and ships in Port of Le Havre, France

Aerial view shows the port of Le Havre in France, with no visible activity. The SS Liberte, SS Ile de France, and SS Antilles are docked but the port is idle. Several uniformed guards patrol the docks. In the town of Le Havre, merchant marine officers and crewmen emerge from building in town square displaying the French tricolor above its roof. Posters on either side of the building entrance read to the effect that the maritime Officers and men are right, about an issue in controversy. Many bicycles in evidence and several cars parked along street.

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024248
Wright Plane flies in Le Mans, France.

Wright Plane flies in Le Mans, France. Wilbur Wight's plane with 25 horse power and two chain-driven propellers at Le Mans, France. Two men start propellers. Frenchmen pull Wright brother's plane 'B' Pusher type over the ground to steel rail catapult ramp. French military and civilian spectators at air show. Frenchmen pull launch weight into steel tower. Start of flight on 08 August 1908. Steel weight descends and plane catapult into air. Airplane flies.

Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025926
German soldiers advance through war ruins in Amiens and its vicinity during the Battle of France (WW2)

German invasion of France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German attack on Rouen and Le Havre in northern France. War ruins in Amiens and its vicinity. Bomb damaged buildings and structures. The Amiens Cathedral (30 Place Notre Dame, 80000 Amiens, France) amidst the ruined city. Military vehicles leave the building. German convoy including soldiers and artillery advances. Close up views of German soldiers as they walk through bombed town and past actively burning buildings. German soldiers in military vehicles. Soldiers march along the ruins and through the rubble, cross railway tracks. Burning structures. Liquid pours through holes shot in water or oil drums, discharging contents onto the ground. Cattle being herded in a town. German Soldiers milk cows. A calf feeds on the mother's milk. German soldiers feed a calf.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021833
Germans in Paris after the Battle of France and FFI resistance fighters in France during World War II.

Pictures taken by military and news cameramen during World War II. France, June 1940: German troops march before the Arc de Triomphe on Champs Elysses after the Battle of France. A German Nazi flag. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) Maquis march in the woods of France. Newspapers run by the underground army. The Maquis members secretly attend a meeting of French collaborationists allied with occupying Germany, to attain information. French Collaborationists listen to the speaker during the meeting, seated beneath a large banner indicating support for the fight against Socialism or Bolshevism, "Le Europe unie contre le Bolchevisme." Nazi posters altered by the FFI to their advantage. FFI resistance fighters raise a flag in a forest encampment. Aerial of London England in an area with many neon lights and neon advertising : Women in elaborate clothes enter a theatre to watch war pictorial films about World War II.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021768
The City of Paris, France, before and after the Nazi invasion of 1940, and America preparing for World War II

Views of Paris in the late 1930s, prior to World War II. The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (Arch of Triumph). The Tuileries gardens (Jardins des Tuileries) with bed of tulips in full bloom in foreground. The Eiffel Tower (la tour Eiffel). The fountain of River Commerce and Navigation at the Place de la Concord, Paris, with the Madeleine church (L'église de la Madeleine) directly behind, the Hotel de Crillon,barely seen at left, and its twin building, the French Naval Ministry, opposite, on the Rue Royale. People strolling and shopping on the Boulevard Haussmann. Awning of Les Deux Magots café and patrons seated at tables outside, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of Paris. People relaxing in the Tuileries gardens, with Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and Musée du Louvre in background. An artist at work, seated at a bench in the foreground. The west facade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Parisians looking at posters, reading in parks, visiting bookstores. Sign directing visitors to the Congres des Ecrivains (Congress of Writers) held at Maison de la Mutualité conference center at 24 Rue Saint-Victor, 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.in June, 1935. Several writers seated at a table with others standing around. Closeup of three. Closeup of British writer, Aldous Huxley, wearing eyeglasses. Two writers conversing. Scene shifts to Paris at night. Car traffic on streets of Paris at night. Illuminated sign at Moulin Rouge cinema theatre, topped with illuminated arms of a windmill. Lighted sign of nightclub, Le Rat Mort, in Place Pigalle. Interior of a Paris nightclub with sophisticated clientele. French entertainer musician playing a guitar. An official posting an announcement called "Counseil de Revision," calling for conscription (military draft recruitment) of citizens for military service. Parisians preparing defenses in the city, in front of the Eiffel Tower. Man deep in a trench preparing a shelter. Men carrying sandbags up a ladder to protect a national monument. Copy of the New York Times newspaper annnouncing the German attack on Poland. Copy of New York Daily News announcing fall of Holland. The New York World-Telegram paper announcing capitulation of France. German Panzer II tanks and motorcycle troops entering Paris. German infantry marching through the Arch of Triumph, on the Champs-Élysées. A Frenchman wiping his eyes as he watches the occupying troops. Hermann Goering with other officers riding in an open car along a Paris street. Closeup of Arch of Triumph. Adolf Hitler, accopanied by staff, looking at the Eiffel Tower. Nazi flag flying from the tower. Closeup of Hitler looking around. The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Academic garb, at the University of Virginia commencement ceremony, in Memorial Gymnasium, on June 10, 1940. (FDR's son Franklin Jr. was among the graduates assembled, from the UVA Law School). Roosevelt expresses American sympathy and support for nations invaded by the Nazis. American street scene. Women preparing gifts intended for France. A poster showing a French soldier, entitled: "Le Paquet Au Front." American draftees in training at an army post in the U.S. Smoke billowing from American industrial facilities. Workers at an American shipyard. View of warships under construction at the yard. A Huge gun barrel being moved on special rail dollies, in a U.S. arms factory. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair Production Line during World War II. M3 Lee medium tanks being manufactured in U.S. factory. Closeup of finished one being transported via transverse crane. M4 Sherman tanks moving on flat rail cars. A speeding steam locomotive pulling freight cars. Martin PBM-5 Mariner in flight over an Atlantic convoy carrying war materiel to the United Kingdom. Sailor wearing headset, standing near depth charges at stern of a ship. British Naval Ensign flying from mast of a ship.

Date: 1940
Duration: 6 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041990