French General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle returns to Paris, France during World War II. A crowd of the French civilians on a street as General Charles de Gaulle's car enters. Parisian motorcycle corps surround the car. The car en route along the Champs Elysees. Charles de Gaulle gets off the car amid cheers from people. He salutes a French officer standing in front of a line of personnel carriers. Officials and Charles de Gaulle walk past the line of personnel carriers and tanks and move towards the Arc de Triomphe. The crowd cheer the name of De Gaulle, celebrating the liberation of Paris.
The secret Free French headquarters in Paris during World War 2. Opening scene shows the Lion Of Belfort Statue, at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, France. Pedestrians and cyclists are moving through the area. Next are views through the windshield of a car driving around the statue. It drives up a side street, and a passenger is let out. As the car drives away, the passenger enters a building, housing the secret headquarters of the Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and goes inside. He proceeds through some anterooms and down several flights of stairs deep into a subteranean room where he is admitted by a man wearing a white FFI armband. He delivers a paper message to one of two men sitting at a table. The information causes various members of the FFI in the headquarters to begin taking actions to plan a mission. A woman transmits the informtion and orders via a teletype machine.
Opening scene shows French General Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as they leave a French Headquarters building in Paris, France, after its liberation in World War 2.. It is snowing. An American soldier, bugler, is blowing a salute. Another U.S. soldier holds the door of a staff car open. Among those following Churchill and de Gaulle, is British Field Marshal Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. And (behind two French civilian officials), is French General Marie-Pierre Kœnig. Next, is seen an honor guard of American soldiers, rendering rifle salutes with right shoulder arms. Alternating Closeup glimpses of Churchill, de Gaulle, and company with those of the honor guard. Very close view of Churchill. Scene shifts to French military drum and bugle corps playing. Closeup of Churchill, de Gaulle, Brooke, and French General de Lattre, all saluting, and a French military color guard dipping colors in salute as others render rifle salutes. More views of French honor guard. Next, a jeep carrying General de Lattre, in front and Churchill and de Gaulle in the rear, passes by with occupants saluting. Glimpse from rear of French military honor guard. The jeep passing between troops in formation and a line of American Sherman tanks with their crews standing in front of their tanks. Views from various angles of the scene.
U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery opens U.S. Embassy in Paris, France during World War II. U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery escorted by two U.S. officials enter the U.S. Embassy. Jefferson Caffery takes out his hat. The soldiers stand in formation and greet him. A soldier salutes in the foreground. The U.S. Ambassador meets French officials and dignitaries in the Embassy. Jefferson Caffery talks to a dignitary.
Allied soldiers are greeted in Paris, France during World War 2. The streets of Paris lined with civilians eager to welcome the Allied soldiers. A street sign "Paris,Pied-Italie." Soldiers in a jeep. The soldiers are welcomed by the French civilians. Still photographers shoot picture if French woman kissing an American soldier. A French cinematographer stands on hood of car. His motion picture camera is on tripod on car roof. A sign on car roof reads (in English) : "Please don't kill the French cameramen." A French woman with two men in the rumble seat of a car. One man holds rifle. Back of car has "FFI" (for French Forces of the Interior) and the Free French, Cross of Lorraine, symbol painted on its back. (World War II period).
German soldiers surrender in Paris, France, during liberation of Paris in World War 2. Mass surrender of German soldiers. The German soldiers are marched with hands on their heads, surrounded by French civilians, along the streets to the courtyard of the Chamber of Deputies. An American soldier on an M4 Sherman tank looks over the scene through binoculars. Smoke rises from a burning German Panther tank. A large group of German prisoners in the courtyard. (World War II period).