A view of Place de la Concord looking towards American Embassy. Obelisk of Luxor in the background. 1940s and 1950s cars and trucks on the busy roads of Paris. Exterior of museum of Art de Métiers. Open air philately stamp market for stamp collectors. Scene of the flame at the tomb of an unknown soldier at the base of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
A French Salmson reconnaissance biplane parked at a French airfield,in World War 1. Pilot is in the cockpit. One crewman begins to pull the propeller through to clear hydraulic lock before starting. Another airman stands at the airplane's left wing tip. A French flier shows twin Lewis machine guns installed in the rear cockpit of a Salmson airplane. He demonstrates their flexiblity and horizontal and vertical range of movement.
U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore from D-Day landing crafts during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. View of some 5th Engineering Battalion soldiers rescued from a wrecked landing craft during the invasion. View of a wrecked landing craft. A landing craft on the shore. U.S. army medics treat the rescued soldiers. Landing craft of LST-51 reaches shore and U.S. soldiers come ashore from the landing craft. A view of the troops on Omaha beach strewn with gear. Some injured soldiers with wound dressings grab inflatables and board the landing craft at shore. Landing Craft Tank 29 (LCT-29) seen at shore. Heavy wind and surf pins a landing craft at shore as it works to free itself and return to ship.
P-47s of the 86th Fighter Group, distinguished by their bright red and white striped enpennages, are seen in operation at the Poretta Airfield, Casamozza, Corsica, during World War 2. Several P-47s (with razor back canopies) are seen parked on the field. One P-47 takes off and another lands.
Liberation of Paris at the end of World War II. Army soldiers transported in a military truck. General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, General Marie Pierre Koenig and General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque are acclaimed by French civilians. Army troops stand in uniform as the Generals meet the civilians. French civilians sit on tree tops to get a better view. Civilians shout praises and applaud. French Generals salute the gathered crowd. The crowd interacts with French Generals. Children climb over one another with the United States flag in hand.
U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft painted in D-Day stripes, seen taking off at nightfall on June 5, 1944, carrying Airborne troopers from a base in England, during World War 2. Large formations of U.S. B-17 bombers en route to targets in Europe. Clusters of indendiary bombs falling from a U.S. bomber. View from a bomber of explosions on the ground from bombing at a coastline. Allied paratroopers fill the sky with their parachutes as they jump from formations of C-47 transport aircraft. Thirty minutes before the amphibious assaults at Normandy, Allied warships bombard the shore with heavy naval guns. Troops leave their transport ships and board small landing craft (Higgins boats). Soldiers try to stabilize the rope nets for others climbing down, as their small craft pitch in choppy seas. The boats speed away from their transport ships, and head toward the shore. Smoke rising from the shore where naval shelling has caused explosions and fire. Troops from landing craft of the USS, Samuel Chase (APA-26), wade ashore under enemy machine gun fire, at "Fox Green" section of Omaha Beach. They are far away from the beach itself, because of steel and concrete obstacles placed by the Germans, and relatively low tide.
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