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United States Navy destroyer escort, destroyer and other vessels at the Naples harbor.

Task force formed in Naples, Italy for the invasion of Southern France during World War II. United States destroyer escorts, destroyers and Auxiliary motor minesweepers at the harbor.

Date: 1944, August 12
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049890
LST 282 burns as a result of radio-controlled flying bomb released from German Dornier aircraft on D-Day of Operation Dragoon.

Night view from behind a building wall. LST 282 (Landing Ship Tank) burns as a result of radio-controlled flying bomb released from German Dornier approximately 2100 hrs on D-Day of Operation Dragoon invading southern France. Location is Green Beach near Saint Raphael France. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 15
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051847
American soldiers speak to French civilian men, women and children in Saint Raphael, France.

Location on camera slate likely misspelled. 36th Division American soldiers speak with French civilian men and women in Saint Raphael in Southern France. Soldier on motorcycle poses with French children. Another soldier talks to children. U.S. soldiers lounge. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 16
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051851
7th U.S. Army soldiers fire at German positions and French civilians greet U.S. troops in France during World War II.

U.S. troops in cities in France during World War II. Equipment on docks in Naples. A few dirigibles in flight over the dock. Several aircraft in flight. Paratroops of U.S. 7th Army coming down over Southern France. The soldiers advancing and firing. Smoke and flames rise from explosions. The soldiers on tanks advancing and firing. German prisoners being led by U.S. troops. The prisoners walking in columns on a path. The civilians of Marseilles on the streets welcome U.S. troops. U.S. troops marching on the streets. People waving to the troops. A large crowd gathered on the streets waving to the tanks moving past on the streets. Prisoners with their hands behind their heads are led. German soldiers in Lyon firing at U.S. troops entering the city. A hospital building catches fire. Patients being evacuated on stretchers from the building. U.S. troops on trucks moving along a road. People shaking hands with soldiers on trucks. View of the crowd on the streets.

Date: 1944, October 9
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066381
Trucks, bicycles and other vehicles move on a street and drive past wrecked vehicles in France during World War II.

Wreckage of vehicles in southern France, near St. Maximin in Provence during World War II. Wrecked vehicles at a roadside. Vehicles move on a street past the wrecked vehicles. French bicyclists on the road. A truck moves past.

Date: 1944, August
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070349
Docks, warehouses and port facilities damaged during the Liberation of Marseilles, France following Operation Dragoon

Allied Invasion of Marseilles, Southern France following Operation Dragoon during World War 2. French forces enter Marseilles and engage any remaining Germans. French Algerian soldiers of the 3rd Algerian Division in firing positions. French Algerian soldiers walk into Fort Saint Nicolas. Body of executed civilian man in Fort Saint Nicolas with his hands tied behind his back. Dead and wounded soldiers. Street defenses set up by German soldiers are seen abandoned, including artillery gun emplacements and machine gun nests. Views of rubble at docks, warehouses and port facilities that had been deliberately destroyed by retreating German forces. Part of ship with swastika visible just above water line. Bomb damaged hangers and aircraft at airport. Wrecked French planes with German markings. Liberated French civilians in Marseilles cheer Algerian troops. General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert walking down street during parade as civilians cheer. Mosabert is congratulated by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and French politician André Diethelm who is described as French minister of war by the narrator.

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072835