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B-25 bomb at Brest, Canadian troops advance, civilians buy goods and U.S. soldiers secure voting cards in France (WW2)

Normal life of civilians resume after German surrender in some parts of France during World War II. Aerial view of flak in sky. Close-up view of two U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight. (Narrator incorrectly states they are British Lancaster bomber aircraft.) View from bomb bay doors of bombs away shot as the B-25 bomber aircraft drop bombs on U-boat pens at Brest. Explosions and smoke rise. The aircraft drop bombs over ground installation over enemy area. Canadian soldier scenes: Troops advance through a burning coastal town in France. Buildings collapsing and gunfire in streets. Smoke rising. Ruins of destroyed French town are seen. Allied Army tanks advance and fire artillery. German prisoners of war from Wehrmacht 7th and 15th armies being marched under watch by Canadian forces. Among the German prisoners is a 13 year old Russian boy who was forced to work by the Nazis. German prisoners in a soup line and seen drinking from mugs. Some appear to be very young boy soldiers. U.S. Army soldiers in Le Mans: American soldiers are welcomed by civilians of France. Happy French civilians waving to U.S. forces including a happy young woman who runs forward and pats a U.S. Army tank with her hand. Men and women collaborationists who assisted the Germans are rounded up by French and marched away. U.S. Army soldiers seated at stools in a French bar drink as the bar maid pours more into their glasses. French civilians line up at shops and groceries to buy food and goods in Le Mans. Pictures of General De Gaulle for sale. American women in U.S. Army uniforms (possibly nurses or Womens Army Corps WAC members) look in shop windows at French fashions. Voting cards: U.S. Army troops read pamphlets that read "requirement of soldiers to vote" and "Soldiers Voting". The U.S. Army GI's receive and mail postcards to their homes requesting absentee voting ballots for the upcoming November 1944 election. The soldiers line up to secure their application cards for absentee ballots.

Date: 1944, August 31
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071443
Survivors of German Submarine torpedo attack, from USS President Lincoln, board the U.S. Army Transport Great Northern, in Brest

United States Ships en route to France during World War I. United States Survivors from the torpedoed USS President Lincoln boarding the U.S. Army Transport Great Northern, at Brest, France. U.S. Naval Officers wearing life jackets chat aboard the ship. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. Men with binoculars hung around their necks talk to each other.

Date: 1918, June 2
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049587
A still picture of Wilbur Wright Memorial in Le Mans, France which was dedicated on July 17th, 1920.

A picture of Wilbur Wright Memorial in Le Mans, France. A still picture of Wilbur Wright Memorial in Le Mans, France which was dedicated on July 17th, 1920.

Date: 1920
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075734
A convoy of United States ships underway as seaplanes escort them underway to Brest, France in World War I

United States Ships en route to France during World War 1. Allied seaplanes in flight as they escort a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Aircraft in flight. A lighthouse on an island. Seaplanes land on water and taxi along.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049590
Allies capture great French Port of Brest, France (WW2)

Aerial view of French Port of Brest during World War II. Allied General Walter M Robertson commanding officer of 2nd Infantry Division accepts surrender from General der Fallschirmtruppe Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke commanding officer of German Afrika Korps. Allies take German troops as prisoners of war. Aerial view of destroyed French port of Brest.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025367
Ships gather to transport United States soldiers returning home from France, after World War I.

Closeups of American soldiers walking across a pier at the Port of Brest, France, to board ferry boats that will take them to ocean-going transport ships in the harbor. They descend gangplanks and stairs to boats below. An Army band plays music on the boat deck. View looking upward from the boat to soldiers arriving on the pier above. (A French seaman with two little dogs is seen on the lower ramp.) A ferry boat filled with soldiers pulls away from the dock. View of soldiers packed on the ferry boat deck. another ferry boat seen pulling away from the dock. RMS Mauretania in camouflage paint. Ferry boat ans ships in Brest harbor. Ferry boat pulls up next to camouflaged transport ship. View from high point overlooking a transport ship jammed with soldiers on her upper deck, as she steams away from a pier. Closeup of the RMS Mauretania in camouflage. Camera pans across her while ferry boats are tied along her side. Cargo being loaded on her from small boat.

Date: 1919
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039811