Men and women pick grapes on a farm in France. Children stand nearby. The men and women with baskets on their back. They pick grapes and drop them into the baskets and wheel barrows. The picked grapes are then loaded into barrels on a cart. People follow the cart and sing songs in French as the cart is driven away to a wine making facility. The barrels are unloaded and grapes collected in a vast container. Men with pitchforks sort the grapes. A worker offers another a glass of wine.
A Panzer division crosses the Marne River via a pontoon bridge in France during World War 2. Military trucks, motorcycles and German infantry cross the river. A German Schwerer PanzerspƤhwagen armored reconnaissance vehicle drives on dusty road. Another vehicle covered with tree branches drives past. An officer, possibly German General Hermann Ritter von Speck, speaking to a soldier of the Panzer division. German soldiers sitting on boats forming pontoon bridge. Close view of a German soldier. German soldiers in raincoats marching in the rain. Captured French soldiers, probably of Senegalese descent. A Senegalese soldier of the French Army with a sad expression getting wet from standing the rain. Captured Senegalese soldiers use a tarpaulin to take cover from the rain. German soldiers on horse carts cross bridge. More Panzer division tanks and motorized armored vehicles advance over muddy dirt road, raising dust, in the French countryside .
World War II war crime trial of Vichy France leader Marshal Philippe Petain in Paris, France. Outer building of the Palace of Justice (10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris, France). Guards stand outside the court as they talk. Marshal Petain arrives at the court. Former French President Albert Lebrun, Ex French Prime Ministers Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, and Leon Blum seated in the court. People sit in court room. Face and hand of Marshal Petain. Marshal Petain reads a paper. Paul Reynaud stands and speaks. Marshal Petain seated in the court.
Pierre Laval executed for treason in Paris, France. View of Prime Minister Pierre Laval with Nazi officers, during the German occupation of France, in World War II. A military firing squad and an empty hearse enter the Fresnes Prison (All. des Thuyas, 94260 Fresnes, France) where Pierre Laval is held. Several people standing in countryside with prison in background. Sound of rifle fire. The hearse carries Laval's body to the Thiais cemetery.
U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery in Paris, France. Officials enter a building through an entrance gate. Guards at the entrance gate. The U.S. flag on the building. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery shakes hands with other officials. The ambassador unveils a plaque. The U.S. flag and the French flag on either side of the plaque. 'US President Franklin Roosevelt Au Peuple de France' written on the plaque. Count de Courtivron speaks at the event. Officials and U.S. Army personnel listen to the speaker. A large group of people gathered outside the building. U.S. Ambassador Caffery seated with Secretary General of the Rally of the French People ( RPF ) party Jacques Soustelle, French politician Georges Bidault, French General Koenig and U.S. General Rogers. Several views of the dignitaries.
General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Air Marshal Mallory discuss the plan for invading Normandy, France during World War II. Supplies are massed in England for the invasion. British soldiers and U.S. Army soldiers preparing for invasion and boarding ships for the voyage across the English Channel. Some British troops carry bicycles on board. U.S. soldiers marching toward landing craft and boarding landing craft. United States bomber aircraft fly and bombard coastal defenses in France. Aerial camera view from inside allied aircraft as it flies low over German Atlantic Wall defenses and fires rockets at the coastal defenses. Aerial view of beaches of Normandy in the days soon after the D-Day invasion of France. Allied troops landing and bringing supplies ashore. Groups of German soldier prisoners of war lined up under Allied guard. General Montgomery visits Normandy, arriving and jumping down to the beach from a DUKW amphibious vehicle. People in England receive news about the invasion through newspapers. British citizens holding the Evening Standard newspaper with headline reading "The Invasion of Europe Begins." British civilians buying newspapers and reading the news. A busy street in England and a queue of people buying newspapers at a newsstand. View of Allied aircraft flying in formation and closeup views of faces of British civilians looking up at the sky.
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