Allied troops on the French coast shortly after the Allied Invasion of Europe in World War 2. Abandoned fortifications built by slave labor. A soldier looks at metal fences. Officers and soldiers walk through the fort. German weaponry destroyed by retreating German forces. A soldier walks on rubble in Granville. Observation post of the U.S. Navy. A lighthouse that separates Normandy from Brittany. A U.S. soldier on the lighthouse looks out to the sea.
U.S. troops in France soon after the Allied Invasion of Europe, in World War 2. An American Army medic in a field. French Farmers stack hay with hay forks. Hay stacks on the field. Big U.S. artillery gun camouflaged in the same field. The artillery fires at German positions while the farmers continue moving hay, uninterrupted.
American troops in France soon after the Invasion of Europe by Allied forces in World War 2. An airstrip built by the U.S. troops at St. Mere Eglise near the coast. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter taxis on the strip. Soldiers bring 500 lb bomb on jeep. They fix the bomb under the plane wing. Two P-47s raise dust as they taxi and take off laden with the heavy bombs. A P-38 Lightning fighter taxis and takes off. The planes fly over hills. Footage switches to black and white, and various aircraft crash and combat scenes are shown. In Spokane Washington at an air show demonstration, a formation of three A-25 aircraft is seen and then two of the A-25s collide in mid-air and breakup. One A-25 impacts and explodes and another crashes and explodes. Fire and smoke at the crash site. Scene transitions to a variety of highly dramatic gun camera footage shots from World War 2. German railroad train is strafed. German planes are hit and downed by American aircraft, as captured by automatic combat cameras on the aircraft. Various German aircraft exploding, in flames and falling to the ground, with some heading straight for Allied aircraft before being shot out of the sky.
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.
Women collaborators in the Chatou residential suburb, Northwestern Paris, France, during World War II, in Europe. A woman collaborationist tried by FFI (French Forces of the Interior) men. A soldier shaves the head of a woman collaborator found guilty of collaborating with the Nazi Germans during the occupation. A woman collaborator speaks during a trial, attempting to defend herself. An official wearing an armband (possibly FFI) shaves her head after she is found guilty of collaborating.
U.S. war correspondents in a French town shortly after the allied Invasion of France near the end of World War II in Europe. Portion of U.S. invasion fleet off coast of France. Allied naval fleet underway at sea. Officers and war correspondents aboard the ships. U.S. Army jeeps on the hangar deck of a ship. Equipment unloaded at a French port. U.S. flag on a ship. Men milling about in the foreground. U.S. war correspondents seated on the hood of a jeep in a French town as they talk and smile. A photographer with a camera as he talks to a soldier. Buildings along the harbor of the coastal town and views of the channel.