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Scenes of Tours and Paris France, under German occupation of 1940 to 1944 during World War II.
The bombed out train station of St.Pierre des Corps, Tours, France. French citizens climb over the rubble. A train on the track behind the destroyed station. Views from a high window overlooking the Champs Elysees in Paris. Arch of Triumph in the distance. A mixture of civilian and German military Traffic and pedestrians along the Champs Elysees. People enter and leave a metro underground subway station. German troops move along the boulevard in trucks and half-tracks. Eiffel Tower. Armed German soldiers on bicycles. Point of view shot from moving bicycle of group of armed German soldiers on bicycle moving through the city. Red Cross Ambulances near the Arc de Triomphe.
Early allied victories in Europe during World War II are challenged by German counter attacks in late 1944
Elements of U.S. Army arriving in a town in France, in August, 1944, during World War 2. Local people line the sides of the roads to welcome them. Young French women reach up to American soldiers in the back of an open stake truck and later mingle with them on the ground. Some of them kiss the soldiers. Some American flags are displayed by people in the crowd of well-wishers. One American soldier holds up a souvenir Nazi flag.Large crowds of French people gathered in a square to welcome the Americans. Many display the "V for Victory" sign with their hands. Film fades to a brief glimpse of a fallen soldier, and new slate reads: "Counterattack." Next, U.S. Medical Corpsmen are seen carrying American wounded to ambulances in the field in December, 1944.Several views of medics attending to American wounded soldiers. American infantrymen advancing across a field beside a Pershing T26E3 tank. (Note: It has 6 bogey wheels. Not designated M26 until 1945.) American infantry advancing into area of burning buildings and then into built up part of town, where they take up defensive positions inside a building. A U.S. soldier firing out a building window. Other U.S. soldiers firing from positions behind a wall. One is next to a mortar. Buildings burning and destroyed all around them. Close-up of American soldiers firing M1 Garand rifles from behind the wall. Infantrymen hunkered down behind a stone wall with light snow atop it. An explosion from a hand grenade raises smoke. A medical Corpsman checks a fallen American soldier for sign of life. Next, a Chaplain is seen reading from a small bible or prayer book, as he stoops over the fallen soldier. Fallen and wounded soldiers are carried to a truck, from the battlefield, on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to captured German film depicting two junior officers conversing in the field and then to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel conversing with an artillery assault gun officer. Rommel holds a pair of eyeglasses in his right hand. The gun officer wears binoculars around his neck. A war torn city. German Volkssturm (People's Militia) parading. Some carry panzerfaust anti-tank weapons over their shoulders. A field full of German King Tiger II Ausf. B Heavy Tanks. One being driven out of the field. A German SdKfz 251 halftrack maneuvering in woods. it is covered with foliage for camouflage. German soldier in an open single seat courier car. It and he are spattered with mud. Close-ups of the mud-spattered driver smoking an cigar. German infantry moving across a field and moving along a road, in the mist. German infantry moving along a muddy road near a forest. A German V-1 Buzz bomb seen overhead with engine running. It flames out. Next an explosion and rising smoke is seen inside a town.
Republcan Thomas E. Dewey and incumbent Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, compete in 1944 U.S. Presidential election during World War II
The 1944 U.S. Presidential election in 1944, during World War 2. Newspaper boy hawks newspaper extra edition, with headline referring to "Nip and Tuck" race. View of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, at twilight, as lights begin to turn on. Wooden barricades seen set up in front of some establishments to protect against damage from large crowds anticipated as election returns come in. Moving illuminated marquee sign on the Times building reads: "Nearly 45 per cent of Bronx and Manhattan voters said to have cast ballots." Two men look up at the sign. Officials open a voting machine and begin to report information. At another location officials remove paper ballots from their precinct box. A radio announcer reviewing results and reporting them over the air. A woman is seen entering voter returns in chalk, on a national tote board. Citizens gathered to watch results. American soldier listening to results over a radio, in Italy and France. Newscasters reporting on radio as the returns come in. Many people listen to radios. An American family of man, woman, boy and girl children seated in their living room listening to vintage console radio reporting voting returns. A fire is burning in the living room fireplace beside the console radio. Another, different scene is shown with a family gathered around a radio listening to election reports. A framed photograph of a U.S. Army soldier is atop the console radio. Scene is shown of crowds surging in Times Square as returns displayed on Times Building marquee indicate likely victory for FDR (Franklin Roosevelt). Crowd in Times Square including many American military service members in uniform.
A Protestant Minister removes the Bible from a church in Alsace, France.
Director of Alsace Ecclesiastical Matters looks into the matter of the removal of religious objects from churches in evacuated villages. A Protestant church in an evacuated village in Alsace, France. An automobile stands in front of the church. The Protestant Minister looks at the objects in the church. He is accompanied by men of Garde Mobile. He removes the Bible from the church and comes out.
A Jewish rabbi removes religious objects from a synagogue in Alsace, France.
Director of Alsace Ecclesiastical Matters looks into the matter of the removal of religious objects from churches in evacuated villages in Alsace, France. View of a Jewish synagogue in a village. Other buildings in view. Several articles lying on the ground in the foreground. A rabbi removes objects from the synagogue. Chandeliers hanging in the synagogue. Several candles on stands. The rabbi removes the religious objects and comes out. He is accompanied by men of Garde Mobile. The men load the objects in a truck.
A priest removes religious objects from a catholic church in Alsace, France.
Director of Alsace Ecclesiastical Matters looks into the matter of the removal of the religious objects from churches in evacuated villages in Alsace, France. A Catholic church in a village. A catholic priest removes religious objects from the church. He is accompanied by men of Garde Mobile. They spread a sheet on which all the objects are kept. The objects are loaded in a truck. The priest stands with a rabbi and a Protestant Minister.
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