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Allied soldiers in Paris celebrate Victory in Europe Day during World War II.

Victory in Europe Day during World War II. An American soldier with a sailor walks in a crowded street in Paris on Victory in Europe Day. They kiss girls in the street. American officer wearing a naval cap kisses a girl in the street. French officers and Parisian girls. A young girl waves Allied flags. A French family poses.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1945, May
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049777
Allied soldiers and civilians celebrate Victory in Europe Day during World War II in Paris.

Victory in Europe Day during World War II. A man rides a bicycle pulling a cart loaded with young girls on a street in Paris during celebrations of Allied victory in Europe. American soldier kisses a girl. Sailors with girls. Soldiers and girls loaded onto a truck as one of them takes pictures. A cameraman on the truck. An elderly French man waves during the celebrations.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1945, May
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049778
United States Army soldiers land on beachhead during Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II

Allied invasion of Europe during World War 2. Opening scene shows sailors preparing to launch a landing craft. Skies are dark above and some barrage balloons are aloft. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT), filled with soldiers, slowly approaches a secure beachhead where U.S. Army trucks are driving along the beach. Next, the LCT has beached and lowered its front ramp. It is still some way from the beach. Soldiers ride jeeps down the ramp and through the water toward the shore. Some soldiers are seen dug in on the beach. Others march informally along the beach. Jeeps and trucks drive along the beach. Dark black smoke rises in the background An M4 Sherman of the 70th Tank Battalion, fitted with a bulldozer blade, moves past a fallen (dead) soldier partially covered with a tarp, lying on the sand. Small clusters of soldiers are setting up positions in the sand. Medics carry two stretchers towards a landing craft as they wade through the surf. Soldiers wade ashore from a stranded LCT.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049839
U.S. troops setting up defensive positions and bringing supplies ashore, during the Normandy invasion of World War II

Several U.S. soldiers set up defenses inland from a Normandy invasion beachhead during World War 2. One, in a sand-bagged position, loads cartridges into a bandolier. Closeup of two others in a sand-bagged communications center containing radios; light and other signalling equipment. The soldier loading rounds into a bandolier is seen again. A group of soldiers appear relaxed as they converse. View of the beach, where landing craft are beached and caterpillar tractors move about. A Rhino Ferry (barge) containing many trucks, sits in the water, close to shore. Two soldiers in a DUKW amphibious vehicle move along the beach.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049841
U.S. forces being resupplied on a beachhead during the invasion of Normandy in World War II

Logistic support during Normandy invasion of World War 2. Soldier of U.S. 101st Airborne Division walks toward Normandy beachhead where large supplies of military equipment are seen onshore. Several landing craft are beached and tractors equipped with "A" frames move across the sand. U.S. Soldiers occupy a sand-bagged bunker. Radio antennas are set up. Scene changes to closeup of Army 6x6 camvas-covered trucks making their way from a Rhino Ferry (barge) across shallow surf to the beachhead. A barrage balloon is aloft in background.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049842
German Army Group Oberrhein undertakes Operation Nordwind, in Alsace, during World War II

German troops are seen in white winter uniforms, during World War 2, with some holding panzerfaust. Narrator mentions combat against Anglo-Canadian forces, and then speaks of preparation for the New Year's offensive. Heinrich Himmler, as commander of Army Group "Oberrhein" had ordered the launch of Operation Nordwind to recapture Strasbourg. Accordingly, On New Year's Eve, 1945,The Germans launch an offensive (Nordwind) into Alsace, attacking the Allied 6th Army Group at multiple points. On January 5, 1945, Army Group Oberrhein begins a support attack by General Otto von dem Bach's XIV SS Corps, the 553d Volksgrenadier Division, reinforced with armor and commando units. They are seen crossing the Rhine river in small boats at Gambsheim, just ten miles north of Strasbourg. Allied aircraft bomb German positions on the West bank of the Rhein (Rhine) River. The German troopers seize high ground West of the Rhein. German troops are seen firing recoilless anti-tank weapons in a field, Views of knocked out British and American tanks. Abandoned German Jagdpanzer IV faces a U.S. Tank Destroyer. German troops are seen advancing into town North of Strasbourg (Herrlisheim, Drusenheim, Offendorf ?). Scenes of destruction in town. Words: "Haus Bewohnt Civil" scrawled on homes to identify them as civilian occupied.

Location: Gambsheim France
Date: 1945, January 5
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675057617
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