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Allies advance following the invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II

Film opens showing map of Normandy, France. Next, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is seen seated in a jeep, conversing with an officer, standing nearby, who makes notes in a pad. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley sits in the back of the jeep, and a Major General stands beside the jeep. Other officers stand around in the background. Eisenhower converses with the Major General. Scene shifts to closeup of Lieutenant General George Patton. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers fly overhead, part of a two thousand plane bombarding the Saint-Lô area on July 25, 1944. Closeup of a B-24 dropping bombs and views of bombs exploding on the ground. American M4 Sherman tanks and infantrymen advancing after the bombardment. U.S. troops riding atop an M8 Greyhound armored cars and M4 tanks. Animated map shows the extent of U.S. advance from Saint-Lô encompassing the entire Breton Peninsula. Then, it shows American forces swinging North and around to the West, trapping German forces at Falaise. A German Tiger tank, camouflaged in shrubbery, moving along a road, followed by motorcycle, and trucks full of German soldiers retreating from the trap at Falaise. Brief closeups of German soldiers in some of the vehicles. A German FW-190 fighter-bomber seen flying very fast and low toward the camera. An explosion. View of British and Canadian soldiers coordinating in the field, further South of Caen, working to keep German armor surrounded in the area. A battery of British heavy artillery guns firing from camouflaged positions. An American 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (called M7 Priest by the British) firing from a wooded area. Shells exploding in the distance. German soldiers sheltering from the shelling. Fires burning. Allied jeep driving past knocked out German tanks. A field ambulance leads a long column of German prisoners of war. They march four abreast with hands clasped over their heads. A convoy of Allied heavy duty trucks bringing supplies from beachheads to the front lines. (World War 2; WW II; WW2)

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041993
Docks, warehouses and port facilities damaged during the Liberation of Marseilles, France following Operation Dragoon

Allied Invasion of Marseilles, Southern France following Operation Dragoon. 23 August 1944. French forces enter Marseilles and engage any remaining Germans. French Algerian soldiers of the 3rd Algerian Division in firing positions. Soldiers walk to Fort Saint Nicolas. Body of executed man in Fort Saint Nicolas. Dead and wounded soldiers. Street defenses set up by enemy. Gun emplacements. Docks,warehouses and port facilities deliberately destroyed by retreating German forces. Part of ship with swastika visible just above water line. Bomb damaged hangers and aircraft at airport. Wrecked French planes with German markings. Liberated Marseillaise cheer Algerian troops. Officers converse. (World War II period).

Location: Marseilles France
Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072835
Aerial view of Mont-Saint-Michel and Rennes, France (WW2)

Aerial view of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel (50170 Mont-Saint-Michel) during World War II. View of the tower of the Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey. The coast of Mont-Saint-Michel and some buildings, with some damage from bombing. Aerial view of bombed railroad yards at Gare de Rennes (Place de la Gare, 35000 Rennes, France) in Rennes, Brittany. Aerial view of the Rennes Opera House (1 Place de la Mairie, 35000 Rennes) and the Place de la Mairie town square (Place de la Mairie, Rennes, Brittany 35000). Aerial view of railway yards with damage.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, August 6
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079366
Explosions of the German ammunition stores at an island in Saint Malo harbor during Allied Invasion of France.

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.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073005
United States Army 82nd Airborne Division soldiers enter Saint-Marcouf, France in World War II

82nd Airborne Division soldiers advance along a corridor beside the wall of an elevated cemetery in Saint- Marcouf, France during World War 2. They rest beside a wall. Local residents come their way. Rubble of destroyed buildings in the background. The French residents greet and converse with the American soldiers. Two Frenchmen point in a direction up and away. Remains of bombed out rural buildings. Soldier seen near a religious statue that still stands in rubble at front of a destroyed house. As the American troops proceed, they pass a sign reading, "Saint-Marcouf." A bombed out building. A triangular sign reading,"Touring-Club de France," with "Dunlop" written below it. View, from beside a wheeled cart, of troopers resting, in front of a wall in the relatively unscathed town center of Saint-Marcouf. 82nd Airborne patch clearly seen on left shoulder of some troopers. American trooper stooped down to speak with small French boy and girl in front of a house in town. Closeup of the little girl. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: Saint Marcouf France
Date: 1944, June 8
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038158
American troops and war correspondents at Mont Saint Michel and Saint Malo in France during World War II

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.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020912
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