Victory in Europe Day celebration in Paris, France at the end of World War II. View of damaged buildings along a street. Vehicles move through streets. Large crowd of civilians march past Arc de Triomphe for Victory in Europe (V-E) day celebration. They wave flags. View of statue at the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). People running. View of lamppost. Flags flutter in wind at the Arc de Triomphe.
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-FĂ´ret. 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.
United States 17th Airborne Division in Chalons, France during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft in flight as paratroopers drop. Smoke rises from an area on the ground. Wing of an aircraft while in flight. Paratroopers and supplies land on a field.