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German Army operations in the assault on France, during World War II
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. French and other Allied soldiers surrender. The soldiers surrender to German officers on a street. Officers question the soldiers. French African soldiers surrender. German troops proceeding through places made famous during World War 1. The World War I battlefield at Compiegne. World War I memorials at the site. French Marshal Ferdinand Foch's statue and a memorial tablet with a dedication to him. A swastika placed on the memorial. A museum containing Foch's railway car in which the World War I armistice was signed. The Alsace-Lorraine Memorial. German troops battle their way through a village. Soldiers march with rifles. armored vehicles advance on roads. Street fighting between German and French soldiers. Soldiers fire machine guns and take cover among the ruins on the village. Rubble strewn across the streets. Soldiers enter and inspect damaged buildings. Smoke due to a sudden explosions nearby. The soldiers pass a corpse on the street.
German occupation of Paris in June 1940 and the city's liberation by Allies in 1944. Also Includes some D-Day scenes.
The occupation and liberation of Paris during World War II. Germany occupies Paris in June 1940. A Nazi flag on the Eiffel Tower. Adolf Hitler with Nazi officers. Germans unfurl the Nazi flag on the Alsace-Lorraine Memorial. Hitler and his officers driven through the Place de la Concorde and past the Arc de Triomphe. Parisians close their shops. A man removes a Vichy poster and scribbles on a wall. Parisians listen to U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower's broadcast from London on June 6, 1944: The Allied task forces advance towards France on D-Day. Naval guns shell Normandy. Allied troops land on the beachhead and advance inland. Some fall to German gunfire. Headquarters of the Paris Underground. Members of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) discuss, plan, document, prepare grenades, check guns, and wear badges of freedom with the FFI symbol. The French underground barricade streets. Men, women and children build barricades using various material. They inspect their guns and take their positions behind sand bag barricades on sidewalks. FFI soldiers honored. Burning vehicles on the roads. Street fighting between the FFI and the Germans. Corpses on the street. FFI men holding flags. Medics carry a wounded on stretcher. German tanks roam the streets. Wrecked vehicles and war equipment. FFI soldiers fire at German tanks. German snipers fire while French forces equipped by the U.S. are liberating the city. Explosions on the street. Civilians take cover. FFI fighters inspect a German soldier's corpse. They take German prisoners. French troops and military vehicles close in on Paris. Civilians watch and cheer as they enter the city. Barriers built by the FFI are pulled aside to let the troops pass. French forces in American tanks pass the Eiffel Tower. Explosions and machine gun fire during the street fighting. French soldiers fire at Germans hiding in buildings. Several German prisoners. German officers and soldiers surrender. Parisians watch as they are herded to prisons. Prisoners clean street.
U.S. 6th Field Artillery in a caravan of horse-drawn wagons near Void in Lorraine, France.
Units of the U.S. 6th Field Artillery advance in Lorraine, France during World War I. They proceed in a caravan of horse-drawn wagons loaded with artillery pieces and caissons. Included in the line is a horse-drawn Red Cross wagon.
U.S. Army 18th Infantry Regiment soldiers mess in Menil La Tour, Lorraine, France, during World War I.
U.S. Army troops of the 18th Infantry Regiment during World War 1, marching into the town of Menil-La-Tour, France. Soldiers sit on the ground and rest. Cooks prepare meals. The troops stand in a chow line for food at a field kitchen. They eat and drink. Some soldiers smoke cigarettes. Several U.S. Army Asian-American soldiers pose for the camera.
Launching of an observation balloon near the Alsace sector in France by a French balloon squadron.
Aviation activities in France during World War I. An observation balloon is launched near the Alsace sector by a French balloon squadron. A formation of French single-engine bi-winged bombers in flight. The French observation balloon in the foreground. Two World War I bi-winged aircraft in flight.
Men work to construct roads with small gauge rail trolleys and other machines in Alsace, France during World War I.
Road repair and construction in Alsace, France during World War I, ensuring supply lines open to advancing Allied forces. Tractor with pulley assembly powers a spinning rock crusher. Men sort rocks and put some into crusher to create gravel for road surface. Men dig and transport earth and rubble on hand pushed rail carts. Men including French soldiers push a trolley on tracks. A cement trolley stationed in the background. A trolley loaded with stones is emptied down the side of a hill. Cattle pull heavy rotating drum along road to level the surface.
