View of smiling American troops of 2nd Armored Division eligible for redeploy and discharge on April 21, 1945. They stand next to a captured Nazi German flag in Cherbourg, France. One soldier wraps the Nazi flag around himself. Soldiers at rail of a large troop transport ship at a pier. Soldiers take a wounded man aboard ship on a stretcher. Soldiers and officers at the American cemetery. Soldiers raise their guns to pay respect to the graves. They salute. Wreath on a grave with cross marked "unknown". Soldiers and a few nurses boarding transport ship at dock. (World War II period).
Senator Burton K Wheeler and party including United States officers come out of the Paris transmitter station in France. Officers talk amongst themselves. They get into car and the car passes on the street.
Grave diggers work at La Gambe cemetery in the Normandy sector, France. Soldiers carry dead bodies. American flag in the cemetery. A board represents the construction of cemetery for the American soldiers. (World War II period).
Generals and officers visit Seventh Army CP in Luneville, France during World War II. Major General Louis E Hibbs sits in a car. Another officer also gets in the car with him. The car moves. 63rd Infantry Division, Major General Harry J Collins and 42nd Infantry Division Lt General Jacob L Devers discuss with other officers. Car arrives at the place. Cars parked in the background. Officers and Generals enter a room.
Rail yard in Paris,France. A locomotive approaches the yard . A French worker, Jacques Dupont, operates a locomotive turntable. Another rail worker fills water in the locomotive' s engine. Engineer checks wheels of the locomotive. Dupont and other workers work at the engine. From an anti-communist propaganda piece.
French Anti-communist propaganda piece of the 1950s: Exterior of a chateau which serves as a school for trade unionists of the Free Trade Unions in Paris, France. A class for railroad men on the settling of dispute, commences inside the chateau. French worker Jacques Dupont looks at a Free Trade Union poster. A Force Ouvrière (Worker’s Force) meeting. Jacques accompanies a new member to the meeting hall. Scenes of a discussion going inside the trade union meeting. Workers demonstrate against the working of the Communist unions. A vote is taken on the outcome of the meeting. The majority vote against cooperation with the Communists (Reds).
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