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U.S. soldiers and French civilians repair tracks and drive in spikes at a railroad yard in Cherbourg, France.

U.S. soldiers in Cherbourg, France after the invasion of France by Allied forces during World War II. A locomotive moves into a railroad yard. The engine of the train emits smoke. U.S. soldiers and French civilians repair tracks. U.S. soldiers and French civilians drive in spikes.

Date: 1944, July 5
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070143
U.S. soldiers and French civilians repair tracks in a railroad yard in Cherbourg, France during World War II.

U.S. soldiers in Cherbourg, France after the invasion of France by Allied forces during World War II. A U.S. soldier gives a cigarette to a French civilian in a railroad yard. French civilians repair tracks in the background. The soldiers speak to the civilians.

Date: 1944, July 5
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070144
Smoke rises up from artillery bursts on German positions near Cherbourg, France during World War II.

The Battle of Cherbourg in Cherbourg, France during World War II. Damaged harbor installations. Smoke rises up from artillery bursts on German positions. U.S. soldiers walk along a street.

Date: 1944, July 1
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075525
Nazi German General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke surrender to Allied forces in Cherbourg, France (WW2)

The surrender of German General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke and the 709th Static Infantry Division to American forces in Cherbourg, France during World War 2. General von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Hennecke and other German troops are taken to the Allied headquarters in Cherbourg after making a request that they be permitted to surrender to Major General Manton S. Eddy, the Commander of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division. Commander of the 7th Army Corps General J. Lawton Collins interviews General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben alleged to have said “I learned in Russia that small groups can achieve major delays” General von Schlieben talks to General Lawton Collins. General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke outside the Allied headquarters. General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben walks past an American armored vehicle. Both General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke talking outside and their photos taken before boarding a jeep to be transferred to his prison in Trent Park in England. United States soldiers gathered outside the Naval Headquarters building while a German prisoner calls out for others to surrender. A German soldier carries a white flag, followed by surrendering German troops with hands up as they leave the Naval Headquarters. A wounded American soldier with facial injuries covered by bandages and gauze.

Date: 1944, June 26
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079293
French women traitors (collaborators with the Germans) get all of their hair cut off in Cherbourg, France.

French women traitors in Paris, France. Women collaborationists standing in the back of a truck in a town. Women cry. Women having their hair cut as punishment for collaboration with the Germans. The crowd cheers. The women with shaved heads being mocked by the crowd. French man lifts pile of hair and then tosses it to wind. Crowd gathered on the streets.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053889
United States Martin B-26 Marauder bombers drop bombs over a Nazi petrol dump near Cherbourg (WW2)

United States Martin B-26 Marauder bombers bomb German held petroleum facility near Cherbourg, France during World War II. United States Army Ninth Air force Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft in flight. Bombs dropping onto a German fuel storage area about 13 miles south of Cherbourg, Normandy. Aerial view of area around Cherbourg. Thick smoke pillar over a German petrol dump. Martin B-26 Marauders drop more bombs in flight. Aerial view of petrol dump severely bombed by the Ninth Air force bombers.

Date: 1944, June 15
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079838