Ruins in the French town of Chaumont-Porcien, in the Ardennes region, during World War II. Damaged buildings in the town. View of "Le Poilu victorieux de Chaumont-Porcien": A World War 1 statue of a French soldier in the Place de la Mairie. (The statue is a rendition of the Monument to the dead by Eugène Bénet, designed in 1920 in memory of French soldiers who died in World War I. It depicts a French soldier or "Poilu" with rifle in left hand, holding aloft a laurel wreath or olive branch with his right hand.) A small circular fenced cemetery beside the monument is shown, containing crosses and German helmets of recent German soldiers deaths. German Army vehicles advance into town, passing horse drawn carriages lined up on a street.
U.S. soldiers during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel grand offensive on the Western Front during World War I. A large hay stack in a field. A soldier sitting on the stack. Smoke from firing and bombardment in the foreground. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Some of the soldiers seated in the field.
Two United States patrol men talk to each other. One patrol man enters a house. View of a building in the town of St Lo. Patrol men walks through wreckage in Saint Lo. Many views of massive destruction done by allied bombings. A soldier tries to get inside a building. View of Rabbits in cage left by germans. (World War II period).
View of U.S. Army members of 15th Engineer Regiment in a recon car. They look through binoculars to observe enemy territory. (World War II period).
United States soldiers find a wrecked gun on the side of a road in Saint Mere Eglise, Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. Another soldier finds the body of a dead German soldier. Dead German soldier found on a roadside. Wreckage of glider Soldiers push part of the fuselage of the wrecked glider.
A road grader levels an airstrip in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. A P-38 fighter aircraft lands on the newly built runway.
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