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Cycle Classic Event Tour de France underway in Le Vesinet, France.

Bicycle riders participate in the 2800-mile Tour de France cycle classic event (bicycle race) in Le Vesinet, France. Large crowd gather along sides of the streets. Racers drive by city streets, country roads and bridges. City street decorated with decorative flag strings.

Date: 1936, July 13
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029720
French Fascist militia round up FFI members and German troops advance in France during World War II.

France under German occupation during World War II. Vichy French fascist militia (under Joseph Darnand) round up FFI (French Forces of the Interior) members. They march FFI members out of a building. German soldiers search French civilians. They stop and check civilians on bicycles and in cars. The bullet ridden windshield of a car used by FFI. A soldier with a revolver talks to a French farmer. Soldiers check an elderly farmer. A man gives a 5 Francs note. Close up view of the French currency bill. Smiling German soldiers march towards Normandy. They take cover from while under aerial attack by U.S. aircraft. Antiaircraft guns fired at the aircraft. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Aircraft drop bombs over target areas. A plane is hit, descends and crashes. Soldiers in camouflaged trucks and cars pass by cheering troops. German officers greet each other. Officers and soldiers keep watch through shrubs. Soldiers on guard with guns. German General Günther von Kluge discusses strategy, reviewing a map with his soldiers. A damaged sign post reads 'Caution. Enemy in Sight!'

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021803
German troops move through a village and interrogate Canadian and British prisoners of war in France during WWII.

Allied invasion of northern France during World War II. Allied bombers attack the coast during invasion of France. German coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall are shown. A German officer looks through binoculars. He surveys Allied ships and crafts approaching the coast. German coastal guns fired at the Allied fleet in the English Channel. Smoke due to explosions in the water. Soldiers fire artillery. They load shells. Ships hit by the artillery fire. German pillboxes and fortifications. German soldiers inspect damaged and wrecked crafts washed ashore. Soldiers look out to the sea. Camouflaged German tanks and infantry move through a French village. Explosions in fields. Machine guns fired. Soldiers take cover, fire in prone positions. They advance past wrecked and damaged Allied tanks. Allied prisoners marched in the forest. Seated prisoners. German officers discuss strategy and review a map, possibly a captured one. German fortifications on a French beach. Germans pass downed Allied and British planes. Invasion stripes on an aircraft. German officers arrive to inspect the wrecked aircraft. Captured British and Canadian prisoners of war (POWs). Soldiers of The Nova Scotia Highlanders, The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion held prisoners. Wounded POW prisoners. A soldier with an eye patch. A German officer talks to the prisoners and checks their papers.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021807
U.S. war correspondents in a freed French town shortly after the Allied invasion of France during World War 2

U.S. war correspondents in a French town shortly after the allied Invasion of France near the end of World War II in Europe. Portion of U.S. invasion fleet off coast of France. Allied naval fleet underway at sea. Officers and war correspondents aboard the ships. U.S. Army jeeps on the hangar deck of a ship. Equipment unloaded at a French port. U.S. flag on a ship. Men milling about in the foreground. U.S. war correspondents seated on the hood of a jeep in a French town as they talk and smile. A photographer with a camera as he talks to a soldier. Buildings along the harbor of the coastal town and views of the channel.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022058
U.S. war correspondents touring France in the months after the Allied invasion near end of World War 2

U.S. war correspondents in France during the first few months after the Allied invasion to liberate France. Views of French countryside. Views in a village. People milling about on a street. Three young French children ride on the back of a mule as a boy pulls the mule. U.S. war correspondents pose with a French family. A woman with a child. A sign on a building reads 'Hotel and Restaurant Moderne' and a French flag flies out front. Small boats at a harbor of a coastal French town. U.S. Army jeeps on a street. Two French civilians walking with a bicycle and two U.S. soldiers together cross the wreckage of a partially destroyed bridge. A bicyclist on the street of a heavily bombed town with rubble and wrecked homes. Close and distant views of Mont Saint Michel, the small rocky island at the mouth of Couesnon River in Normandy. U.S. sailors aboard a vessel at sea.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022061
Two captains of the 507th paratroop infantry talk at a field in France.

Activities of 82nd Airborne Division in days after invasion of France in World War 2 Two captains of the 507th paratroop infantry talk at a field in France. They smoke. Paratroopers pass on the street. A sign on a board on which is written: 'Amafreville-Gourbesville'.

Date: 1944, June 10
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027672