Free French soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division climb down the rope net of a Liberty ship onto a landing craft departing for Cherbourg during World War 2. Landing craft with soldiers and vehicles pulls away from the ship. Soldiers watch the landing craft move away from the stern. A group of Liberty ships in the Cherbourg harbor. Free French soldiers watch landing craft unloading.
A German tank moving in front of a foxhole where a German soldier hides during World War 2. German soldier lowers his head into the fox hole. Tracks and wheels of a tank rolling in close side view on top of foxhole. German soldier popping from foxhole and waving to tank as he climbs out.
United States Martin B-26 Marauder bombers bomb dump near Cherbourg during World War II. United States Ninth Airforce Martin B-26 Marauder bombers in flight. Bombs dropping into a Nazi petrol dump about 13 miles south of Cherbourg, Normandy. Aerial view of area around Cherbourg. Thick smoke pillar over a Nazi petrol dump. Martin B-26 Marauders drop more bombs in flight. Aerial view of petrol dump severely bombed by the Ninth Airforce bombers.
German Army troops marching and vehicles moving into Dunkirk during World War II. Allied vehicle wreckage and debris on both sides of the road. Abandoned war materiel and horses left behind by the British Army are seen. A ship on fire at Dunkirk harbor. Trucks on fire. Thick black smoke at Dunkirk. German Wehrmacht troops carrying supplies and Howitzers onto the beach. A body of a dead British soldier lying face down. Truck wreckage and abandoned war materiel at Dunkirk beach. Captured British prisoners of war being led away by German soldiers on bicycles. German soldiers light their cigarettes. Crowds of French and British prisoners of war fill a square in Dunkirk. Abandoned British tanks at Dunkirk.
French Foreign Minister George Bidault, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Bevin, United States Secretary of State James F Byrnes along with Senators Connally and Vandenberg arrives for the Foreign Ministers Council at Luxembourg Palace, Paris. They are having discussion in the conference room.
French tank crew of the Free French Forces, leave their M4A2 Sherman tank to inspect another that has been knocked out. Both tanks display the logo of French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), commanded by General Philippe Leclerc. The destroyed one belongs to the 501ème Régiment de Chars de Combat (501st RCC 3eC) and was knocked out, probably by an 88mm anti-tank shell, on August 13, 1944 in Ecouves forest. Closeups of huge holes penetrating the turret of the tank. The other tank's crew members begin recovering bodies of dead from the stricken tank, which has the name "l'Ourcq" stenciled on its side. They remove the body of one dead soldier and place it on a blanket. They also remove the headless body of another from the tank. (Note: Reportedly, the destroyed tank was number 420583.)
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