Departing passengers and luggage crowd sidewalk outside of Gare d'Orsay train station in Paris, shortly before Battle of France in World War 2. Automobiles jam the street in front of the station. Travelers include very old people and families. Two women carry babies. View of the Champ Elysees at night. Cars and lights in shops.
Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps. B-26 aircraft taxis at Nice Airport, France. A French C-47 lands on a runway. Paramedics prepare to board a C-47 for personnel and equipment drop in crash site area. Rescue personnel load equipment into C-47. Pilots and paramedics check map. Group kneels on ramp with map spread out. Paramedic jumpmaster, Master Sergeant Curtiss, of the 84th Air Rescue Squadron, holds pre-mission briefing. Major Rufus Hessberg, paramedic flight surgeon, is among the group preparing for the mission.
Signing of Treaty of Versailles in Paris, France. Soldiers guard the Palace of Versailles. Allied and German representatives arrive at the palace and get off their cars. Representatives being greeted by French officers as they enter the palace to discuss the terms of the peace treaty. Arrival of Georges Clemenceau and he exits car. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George arrives next. Marshal Ferdinand Foch reviews troops. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson arrives at the palace, exits car, removes his top hat, and extends his hand to greet officials.
The AFN (American Forces Network) announcer speaks in French as part of an educational program, at AFN Orleans in France. Sgt. Bill Crawford talks about cultures and history of various nations. From AFN Berlin, Mrs. Jean Vavrin talks about cooking and various recipes. Also from Berlin, Pat Hicks hosts childrens program for the young listeners.
French troops occupying former German Battalion Dugout at Carency, France, during World War I. Old German sign still posted above the entrance reads: "Bataillons Unterstand Abschnitts komandeur Dora Zweifel?". The French regained this position in the so-called battle of Arras. French troops are relaxing on benches outside, and walking in and out of the building.
View of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. A motorcade arrives at the monument. A large crowd gathers for a ceremony. Officials and dignitaries including French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel and French Defense Minister René Pleven stand by during the ceremony commemorating the sacrifices of French soldiers killed in the war in Indochina. View of wreaths at the site. Following the ceremony, Laniel and Pleven are escorted to separate waiting cars through a hostile crowd of angry French citizens and war veterans, upset by the recent removal of Marshal Juin from the Council of War, and opposed to the Pleven Plan for the European Defense Community or EDC. The officials finally reach their cars through the angry crowd and are driven away.
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