A French collaborationist is being made to march on the streets by French Forces of the Interior (FFI) fighters during World War 2. French collaborator holds his hands up while marching. FFI fighters flank the collaborator while marching. Some FFI fighters walk with bicycles. French civilians watch the collaborator march. Collaborator passes by the Le Café du Musée. Collaborator and FFI fighters enter a building. French people view an abandoned German tank in front of “De Guise” in Rue de Rivoli. Allied tanks driving in Paris.
German prisoners in Paris after liberation of Paris in World War 2. A man looks at a pile of weapons and equipment confiscated from captured German prisoners. Men walking out of a gate. A forlorn German prisoner leans his head on his hand. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) fighters guard and lead German prisoners into the street. FFI fighters play with a defaced portrait of Adolf Hitler. An FFI fighter spins the portrait of Adolf Hitler stuck on the barrel of an M4 Sherman tank machine gun. FFI fighters display the Nazi flag behind the Hitler portrait as men aim their guns at the portrait.
A crowded street with a pillar of smoke rising from afar after the Liberation of Paris in World War II. Men standing on top of vehicle on the foreground. French civilians running near the Arc de Triomphe. Angry French civilian men confront captured German prisoners of war. U.S. Army soldiers wearing M1 helmets (with anchor stenciled in front) blocking civilians from German prisoners. Several civilians crouching low on the ground and laying on the ground, and others crouching low while they wheel away their bicycles, possibly having heard an episode of gun fire. Civilians watch the columns of German prisoners marching through Avenue de Champs Elysees leading to the Arc de Triomphe.
Wreckage of a Junkers engine factory near Strasbourg after Allied bombardment. United States military officers inspect the destroyed depot, formerly a Ford plant before World War II. A soldier opens a small door on a concrete guard post and inspects inside. A metal box labeled in German “JUNKERS FLUGZEUG-UND-MOTORENWERKE A.G. MOTORENBAU ZWEIGWERK- MAGDEBURG STATION MAGDEBURG NEUSTADT”. A soldier inspects German engines. Abandoned engine stands with mounted engine blocks and pile of engine manifolds at the Junkers factory. Debris cover the whole floor of destroyed factory. Crumbled steel structure of roof and walls are left.
United States artillery crew firing a M101 howitzer in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. More howitzers firing from camouflaged positions. An artillery crew firing from a camouflaged area. Soldiers read a road sign to Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche and Carentan. They speak to civilian women. A soldier gives out candies to smiling French children. A DUKW drives past the soldier and children. A 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 on the road.
United States 3rd battalion troops are forced into an embankment on Omaha Beach by Nazi German snipers and machine guns on D-Day in World War II. More United States Army soldiers land in Omaha Beach. A group of soldiers wearing life vests sit and rest on the beach. Some soldiers are digging trenches on the beachhead. Engineers prepare det cords and other equipment to clean up shore obstacles. Medics carry casualties in litters and treat injuries. A medic treats a wounded soldier’s back. Another medic holds an IV fluid as his colleague treats an unconscious soldier. A Landing Ship, Tank (LST) on the beachhead. A United States Army medic treats an injured German prisoner. Nazi German prisoners of war sit on the beach head after their capture. An unconscious German soldier. Two German prisoners of war, including a young German soldier and a middle-aged German soldier.