French Army troops boarding a troop ship to deploy overseas. They are in full iniform including blouse and tie, and carrying their military kit and weapons. One soldier carries a French MAT-49 submachine gun. A man at gangplank gives each soldier a piece of paper. View of the full troop ship leaving the dock. Friends and family waving goodbye.
French officer briefs pilots of his organization about a flying mission. Writing on blackboards in the briefing room. Image of airfield on wall. The pilots take notes. French pilots walk out to their Sud-Est 535 jet aircraft parked on airstrip. They climb aboard, start engines, taxi and takeoff. Officers watch as planes depart.
Formation of French women marines (The fouled anchor insignia of French marines is seen on lapel of a woman's uniform.) They are inspected by woman commander and parade while band plays. One carries partially furled tricolor flag. Woman officer salutes as they march past. The women marines in combat training. They cross obstacles and crawl on ground under simulated combat conditions.
German forces defending against Allies during invasion at Normandy in World War 2. Camouflaged German Panther tank on the move. Others with German infantry on the way to engage invading Allied forces . Views from German positions of artillery fire and German machine gunners. A huge explosion. Battery of German 15 cm mobile rocket launchers (Nebelwerfer 41) firing. Rockets being fired from an Opel Maultier halftrack equipped with 10 tubed rocket launcher (Panzerwerfer 42) and a Wurfrahmen 40 (launch frame 40) multiple rocket launcher on SdKfz 251 halftrack. German forces firing on allied forces. A huge oil fire. German soldier using a flame thrower.
German soldiers taking American prisoners of war (POWs) during battle following Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Two U.S. soldiers, holding their hands on their heads, being esorted by armed German soldiers. Several American soldier POWs, including some with bandaged wounds. Two French prisoners in civilian clothes. German soldiers escorting tens of American POWs. A few are wounded. One is helped to walk, by two others.
Huge fires burning in a French town due to battles between Allies and German forces and Allied bombing, following the Allied Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Buildings and homes being destroyed by the flames. French firefighters with hoses trying to control the fires. They use tall extension ladder and hoses in attempt to save a church building. They battle fires in several places. Two men hold a high pressure hose. Buildings destroyed and a tall factory chimney falling due to fires. Flames bursting from a shop in the midst of a block of such stores on a commercial street. Local citizens working together to clear debris in the wake of the fires. Workers carry a litter, with body of a victim retrieved from rubble. Closeups of distraught women. Scene shifts to German soldier stealthily carrying a shell to artillerymen under a camouflage netting. View of a German V-1 buzz bomb in flight overhead, on its way toward Britain.
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