French soldiers return to Paris, France towards the end of World War II. Crowds in a station and along a street as they wave to buses loaded with American soldiers and repatriated French soldiers. French civilians waving to truckloads of returnees. Repatriate French soldiers loaded in trucks as they move past civilians. Civilians gather around a truck loaded with returnees at the Musee d' Orsay (1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France). Soldiers get off a truck. A French boy scout gets onto the truck and helps unload baggage. The soldiers hold a French flag and get off a vehicle. Many people gathered around trucks loaded with returnees. Repatriated French soldiers get off a truck. People lined up behind barricades as they cheer for the returning soldiers.
U.S. Airmen killed by Nazis in France during World War II. Dead bodies of U.S. Airmen, all shot in head lying on the road to Gambsheim, in France. Pocket diaries and Holy Cross on an airman's dead body. White cloth with spots of blood covers the face of dead. Dead bodies scattered, all over a ground.
Trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and other French officials in Paris, France during World War II. Mr Berthelot, former Vichy Transport Minister takes oath and testifies. Reporters take notes. The Minister is taken away by the guards. An official takes a seat.
August 1944: Liberation ceremony by the Mayor of Rennes in France. The Mayor, Allied officers and other city officials on a balcony. The U.S. and French flag hung from the balcony. People of the city gathered below to celebrate the liberation. French patriots round up collaborationists. Collaborationist men and women with torn clothes and painted faces paraded through the streets. An elderly man and woman with the French flag. (World War II period).
A German Ordinance Depot outside of Rennes in France. Damaged and destroyed interior of the Depot. Abandoned equipment on racks. Damaged equipment in the depot rooms.
United States 7th Army in Alsace, France during World War II. U.S. 36th Division, 141st Regiment soldiers march on both sides of a dirt road. Soldiers march in single file along a narrow forest road as traffic passes in the opposite direction. Soldiers gathered around a damaged German 128 mm Jagdtiger tank destroyer of s.Pz.Jg.Abt. 653 in Soultz-sous-Fôret. Tanks and soldiers halted in a town due to a blown up bridge. Soldiers walk over a steel bridge across Seltzbach river. French civilians help in building the bridge. Quarter ton trucks cross a completed bridge.