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U.S. Forces rest in Pontaubault on their way to Paris in France.

United States Army forces rest in Pontaubault on their way to Paris. Soldiers seated on the roadside. They relax and smoke. Destroyed buildings and ruins in the city. U.S. Army soldiers march on the streets and enter St. James (Marche) France, widening the Brittany corridor, as crowds of French citizens welcome them. Soldiers in jeeps and trucks. Market area in the town. Civilians, nuns and children wave out to soldiers. Civilians with flowers and French flags welcome the troops. Soldiers on vehicles as people cheer for them. People gather around as a man pastes a proclamation on the city walls. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 3
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020662
Liberation ceremony by the Mayor of Rennes in France.

August 1944: Liberation ceremony by the Mayor of Rennes in France. The Mayor, Allied officers and other city officials on a balcony. The U.S. and French flag hung from the balcony. People of the city gathered below to celebrate the liberation. French patriots round up collaborationists. Collaborationist men and women with torn clothes and painted faces paraded through the streets. An elderly man and woman with the French flag. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020664
An abandoned German Ordinance Depot outside Rennes in France during World War 2.

A German Ordinance Depot outside of Rennes in France. Damaged and destroyed interior of the Depot. Abandoned equipment on racks. Damaged equipment in the depot rooms.

Date: 1945
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020665
Allied troops and war correspondents landing and digging in at Utah Beach in Normandy, France, after D-Day, in World War II

Allied troops and war correspondents arriving at Utah Beach in Normandy, France not long after D-Day Invasion in World War 2. War correspondents Pete Carroll and Wes Hanes carry equipment across the beach. A ship grounded on the beach in the background. Allied troops, military vehicles and tanks on the beach. Bulldozers clear the road for the troops. Ships anchored and grounded at beach. Barrage balloons in the sky. Soldier drinks water. Military Police personnel dig trenches and fox holes behind a concrete wall. Banner reads: 'Green Beach HQ'. Troops and vehicles at the camp. German soldiers taken prisoner,with hands above their heads. Soldiers and war correspondents at their first Command Post in Normandy. Soldiers seated under a tree. One stands near a stream. U.S. General Joseph Collins talks to his officers. War correspondents including Larry LeSueur and Bob Landry eat and drink at the command post.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020901
Allied troops advance through the city of Valognes, France, in World War II

Allied troops in France, during World War 2. Troops advance to attack at the St. Lo line. Soldiers seated on artillery and some on foot. They go through the city of Valognes. Military vehicles cross destroyed buildings. A man walks past ruins. A war correspondent walks on a Normandy beach. Many triangular beach obstacles with mines attached to them placed there by German forces and slave laborers.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020907
The first American military cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, established on June 8, 1944, in World War II

View from a 4-engine airplane in flight over altocumulus clouds. Setting sun creates pink colors. Scene changes abruptly to views, inland from Omaha Beach, at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, of the temporary military battlefield cemetery established by the U.S. First Army, on June 8, 1944, right after the Allied invasion of Normandy, in World War 2. Simple wooden crosses mark the graves of the fallen Americans, each identified by one of their dog tags fastened to the marker.

Date: 1944
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020920