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Ruins in Place Clemenceau of Fère-Champenoise; French citizens flee town during German advance in World War II.

Damaged and abandoned French artillery guns in position in the Place Georges Clemenceau of the town of Fère-Champenoise (Marne). Dead horses lay on the pavement in the Place Clemenceau town square following battle. Camera pans along to sides of the town square. Numerous dead horses are seen. Shops on two sides of the square are burned out and destroyed, including a restaurant on one corner and the Cafe du Commerce on another corner (Rebuilt and still there today in Place Clemenceau, 51230 Fère-Champenoise). Street sign is visible along N4 road pointing to Connantray-Vaurefroy, 5 km away, and Vitry-le-François, 44 km away. French citizens and refugees evacuating along a country road during Battle of France, with horse-drawn wagons, cars, and bicycles, past occupying German troops on motorcycles and in trucks. French cars parked along the edge of road. One has trouble crank-starting. Others proceed slowly along the road with many belongings.

Location: Fère-Champenoise France
Date: 1940, June
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073798
A U.S. band leading a funeral ceremony and clergy leading burial ceremony following Battle of Saint-Mihiel in World War 1.

U.S. soldiers near St. Mihiel, France during World War I. A band of American soldiers leads a funeral procession. A caisson moves across a field towards a graveyard. Houses in the background. Newly dug graves in the graveyard. Closeup view of cross at the grave of Major Harry A. Harvey of the 103rd Field Artillery, who died on September 12, 1918. Clergy and soldiers seen during the funeral ceremony for Major Harry Aloysius Harvey and other soldiers killed in the Battle of St Mihiel.

Location: St Mihiel France
Date: 1918, September
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076724
A storage depot for the German V-1 (flying bomb) and munitions near L'Isle-Adam after the Allied bombings during World War II.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in German-occupied France during Wolrd War II. A storage depot for the German V-1 (flying bomb) and munitions dispersed over an area of 3 square kilometers in the forest near L'Isle-Adam. Walls of not more than half a dozen buildings left standing. Tracks of narrow gauge that ran between the buildings appear occasionally from heaps of rubble. Cradle carts for moving bombs and robots rust by the road way. French work men with picks and shovels carve a path through the rubble. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) soldiers lift a mine while others stand guard with captured Mausers, alert for snipers still hiding in the forest.

Location: L'Isle-Adam France
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021881
King Edward the Eighth dedicates Vimy Ridge War Memorial.

Scene of Vimy Ridge War Memorial in Pas-de-Calais, France. King Edward the Eighth goes to inaugurate the War Memorial. Military officers gather to see inauguration. King Edward unveils the Figure of Canada on Vimy Ridge Memorial. Large crowd gathered to see ceremony.

Location: Pas-de-Calais France
Date: 1936, July 26
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034180
U.S. 96th Aero Squadron mechanics line up Dehavilland DH-4 airplanes on airfield in World War I

Activities of U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Mechanics and soldiers push a DH-4 biplane bomber out of a canvas-covered hangar and onto the airfield. Five DH-4s parked on the grass field. The mechanics and the soldiers push two more DH-4 aircraft into the line at the field. The tails of all the aircraft are painted in the French scheme of vertical blue-white-red stripes, with the blue forward.

Location: Colombey-les-Belles France
Date: 1918, July 26
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070256
De Havilland DH-4 bomber preparing to depart on a mission from a French airfield, in World War I.

U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. A gunnerchecking out the Scarff ring mounting of his Lewis machine gun in the rear cockpit of a De Havilland DH-4 bomber aircraft. His pilot approaches the aircraft and gets in the cockpit. The pilot and the gunner both shake hands with an American officer who reaches up to them from the ground. Then they settle down in their cockpits for engine start. Three ground crewmen with hands linked together, pull the propeller through several times before they manage to start the aircraft engine. They move away from the aircraft as the engine fires. They pull chocks from in front of the wheels and the aircraft taxis onto the airfield. The airplane tail displays the French blue-white-red vertical paint stripe scheme.

Location: Colombey-les-Belles, France
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070259
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