American troops and war correspondents in France, during World War 2. They visit Mont Saint Michel, a small rocky island at the mouth of Couesnon River in Normandy, separating Normandy and Brittany. View of the island with a monastery at the top. War correspondent Robert Capa (of Life and of Time Magazines) looks on and takes pictures. Military jeeps leave the island. Madam Poulard stands under a sign at her Hotel Poulard. Sign for the Hotel and its reputed omelette. Soldiers on the street. Shops and French flags. GIs at the Benedictine Abbey and steepled church. An old French man points. U.S. Soldiers take a tour of the monastery with a woman guide. Steeples, towers, arches and other architectural features of the abbey and monastery. War correspondents including Charles Collingwood, Chicago Daily News' Helen Kirkpatrick, New Yorker Magazine's Joe Liebling (Abbot Joseph Liebling) and Warden Becker. Helen and Charles pose for the camera. Ernest Hemingway, covering for Colliers Magazine, drinks and talks to Bill Walton. War correspondents including Bill Stringer seated and walking on the street. They visit the monastery and take pictures. Civilians on the streets. Tall sticks in sand placed by German forces around the island to prevent Allied planes from landing at low tide. Three war orphan brothers whose parents were killed at the battle of St Lo, play on the beach as their grandmother looks on. Views of the island and patterns on the sand around the island from the receding waters of low tide. St. Malo, Brittany: Field near Saint Malo. American soldiers bathe and swim in a lake. They fool around in the water, taking a break from battle.
U.S. troops in Saint Malo, France. A sign reads 'Chateauneuf'. Wrecked buildings in view. Several half-tracks loaded with United States soldiers pass by. U.S. tanks loaded with troops. Pedestrians in the background. Civilians travel on horse driven carts. A sign on a building reads 'Rennes'. A sign reads 'Rennes, St Malo'. Trucks loaded with soldiers in the background. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers in Saint Malo, France. Civilians with cycles. Civilians talk to each other. Prisoners in field. Civilians talk to them. A civilian talks to an officer with map. A man holds documents in a communications truck. Civilians behind a fence in the background. A sign reads 'St Malo'. A woman leads a cow. A man with a baby carriage. Trucks loaded with U.S. soldiers pass by. (World War II period).
Allied Invasion of France during World War II. German ammunition stores at an island in Saint Malo harbor are exploded on 17 August 1944. Allied troops explode stores as Germans refuse to surrender. Large smoke column arises.
The United States Army in Paramé near Saint Malo, France during World War 2. Soldiers of the 315th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion set up an 81 mm mortar and fire it. U.S. patrol accompanied by M-4 Sherman tank. Soldier firing Browning automatic rifle. Infantry soldiers make their way through town streets, firing at German troops and snipers shooting at them from buildings. U.S. soldiers provide cover fire against snipers as fellow soldiers advance. U.S. troops kick in door of a building and are seen escorting German prisoners of war with their hands over their heads. A dead German soldier. U.S. medical corpsman treating leg wound of American soldier. U.S. troops assisting the wounded soldier along a street. A cathedral in background.
Bombing Saint Malo, France. A plane in flight. Aerial view of land below. Heavy smoke rises up due to explosions. Several bomb explosions in the city. (World War II period).
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