During the Liberation of France in World War II. A building on a street with a car entering a driveway. Officials come out of the car. They shake hands with other officials. The officials climb the stairs of Partisan Headquarter building and converse with each other. A woman seated at a desk.
The Liberation of Paris during World War II. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) standing on the streets of Paris, France. An overturned burning truck on a road. A German military vehicle overturned on the street in front of La Samaritaine department store. An abandoned Allied tank on a street. French civilians and FFI men look at burning vehicles. Men ride bicycles on a deserted street. Brief view from a moving car of smoke coming from the Grand Palais which was set on fire by the Germans. A crowd stands next to burned German vehicles.
Invasion of Pontaubault, France during World War II. Infantry troops advance along a road towards Pontaubault. Abandoned German horse-drawn equipment on the roadside. Soldiers enter the city of St. James. Men marching along a road. Military men advance forward in trucks. Soldiers rest and smoke in Pontaubault. The soldiers march out of the city. They cut barbed wire obstacles in streets. Troops advance along a road in cars and trucks. Men paste posters on a wall. French civilians read proclamation posters pasted in a town square. A soldier plays piano in a house. Two women and a child cheer.
U.S. tanks and infantry advance in France during World War II. People in a balcony hold the French and the United States flags. An official in the balcony speaks to the crowd assembled below. Troops enter Mayenne. Civilians cheer the troops passing in truck. The troops march across debris of houses and buildings. A sign board reads ' Boulevard Du Marechal Petain'. The troops march along a road as they cross Mayenne. A United States truck drives past the soldiers. The troops in military cars drive past a Christian cross. Tanks and infantry move past a Renault factory. They enter Laval. Infantrymen fire at the Germans across a river in Laval.
French General Charles De Gaulle arrives for his speech in Paris, France during liberation of Paris. A French flag on Eiffel Tower. Smoke rises in a distance. Smoke rises from the shell hit in the distance. A French flag on a building. People gather outside Notre Dame de Paris. Military cars in procession. General Charles De Gaulle arrives by car. Crowds cheers on his arrival. German snipers open fire. Crowds in street scatter and take over. Crowds sit and hide themselves on the roadside. Military tanks moves on the street. A soldier is injured and carried on a stretcher. A doctor treats the soldier's leg wound. Smoke rises in the distance. Military tanks move along the roadside. Soldier watches the tank move from behind. Soldiers fire from behind the cars toward the moving tanks. (World War II period).
Execution of spies in Toul, France. Soldiers carry a body covered in white cloth. Military Policemen (MPs) lead a single spy to the execution point. A clergyman in black dress also accompanies the MPs. The spy is taken to the execution point. The face of the spy is covered using a cloth. Firing squad fire the spy from a distance. The body of the spy falls sideways after it is hit. MPs pick up the dead body of spy, covers it with a white cloth and is taken away on a stretcher. The firing squad in position. (World War II period).
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