Road repair and construction in Alsace, France during World War I, ensuring supply lines open to advancing Allied forces. Tractor with pulley assembly powers a spinning rock crusher. Men sort rocks and put some into crusher to create gravel for road surface. Men dig and transport earth and rubble on hand pushed rail carts. Men including French soldiers push a trolley on tracks. A cement trolley stationed in the background. A trolley loaded with stones is emptied down the side of a hill. Cattle pull heavy rotating drum along road to level the surface.
French battleship Richelieu launched in Brest, France. French Marine minister Cesar Campinchi arrives with other officials for the inauguration of the French battleship Richelieu. Sailors on deck of the ship. Sailors stand in formation on deck. Madame Mons, the wife of one of the workers in the arsenal who took part in the construction of the boat, cuts the ribbon and launches the battle ship. Officials look as the battleship leaves the dock. Sailors on rail of the ship. Cesar Campinchi takes a protective mask while welding. Other officials stand around him.
A mock air raid and defensive precautions in Paris, France. Dramatization : Gas detector crews on motorcycles speed to bombed areas to warn citizens and aid the wounded. Men treat the injured. Men carry a stretcher. They put injured on stretcher. Men carry the injured on stretcher.
Models wear pieces from the Nina Ricci 1967 Fall/Winter collection in Paris, France. Models pose wearing winter dresses with chunky belts. A model wears a signature Nina Ricci “Midshift” dress. A model opens her overcoat to show her tunic dress and then poses. Another model poses for winter clothes. Flowers adorn the model’s felt hat. Model wears a matching tweed coat and calf-length pants.
A cortege of U.S. Army trucks, covered with American flags and laden with flag-covered coffins of American soldiers,who fell in combat on May 27th, 1918,proceeds through the streets of Baccarat, France, in World War 1. U.S. soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division march as escorts, beside the trucks. Local citizens observe from the sides of the road. Scene shifts to Memorial Day (May 30, 1918), when U.S. Army Major General Charles T. Menoher and U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacArthur,of the 42nd Infantry Division, are joined by French Generals Dupont and Penet, in decorating the graves of fallen American soldiers, during a ceremony at a rugged battlefield cemetery containing new graves marked by wooden crosses. A little French girl places a bouquet (reportedly made by Major General Menoher) upon the grave of an American soldier.She is accompanied by other French children who also place bouquets on the graves. An honor guard of American soldiers fires a salute. Scene shifts to a gathering of American soldiers at their base in Baccarat, where they surround a small outdoor stage, to watch a Miss Hart, of the YMCA theatrical Corps dance the Higland Fling. She is dressed in traditional costume of Scotland and accompanied by a violinist. A group of Army musicians, seated close to the stage, watch the performance along with the rest of the troops.
During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Landing crafts approach the French shoreline. The crafts underway off the coast of Normandy. A rocket is fired from a naval vessel offshore. Water splashes due to a fire. A landing craft and an invasion fleet move towards the beach. U.S. troops in the landing craft.
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