The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. German war material hauled into France. Trucks are loaded at docks. Soldiers load material. German trucks haul the war material into France. A road sign gives directions for 'Mecheln, Brussel, Antwerp, Mons, Bayern'. The convoy advances. Soldiers and horses in trucks. German soldiers sort and load cans, ammunition and other war equipment into trucks. German engineers and technicians build and repair war material. Engineers repair a bridge. Huge equipment used for the repair. Smoke emitted from a locomotive engine as it crosses the bridge. Soldiers seated cleaning ammunition. German civilians manufacture war material. Workers manufacture ammunition, rifles, guns, shells and artillery pieces. German officers confer over a map on a table. Soldiers ready artillery. Trucks transport German war supplies. German soldiers eat, drink and rest. Some wash clothes, bathe, get hair cuts, get dresses, and read. A soldier bathes a dog in a tub, another washes clothes in a tub. A soldier uses a hand pump, another dries clothes on a line. The men clean ammunition, clean and shoe horses. Soldiers lined up before an officer in a field. German officers and soldiers sated at tables. Officers confer over a map. Soldiers sort mail while others write letters. A sign reads 'Deutsche Feldpost' (German Army Postal Service). A soldier with a mail bag at the entrance. He gets into a mail van and leaves. Soldiers sort mails and parcels.
Amphibious and airborne Allied forces land in southern France during World War II. (Operation Dragoon in August 1944). Map of France depicts Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day. Naples: An Allied naval force assembles, poised for landing in Southern France, 10 weeks after the Normandy D-Day invasion. Thousands of landing crafts, trucks, tanks, mobile cannons, military vehicles and equipment in the embarkation area. Barrages in flight overhead. Allied officers supervise as the vehicles are loaded into ships. US, French, British, Greek and Polish troops move up to their ships. The ships underway in the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Army General Alexander Patch, French Admiral Andre Lemonnier and U.S. Navy Admiral Henry Hewitt (Chief of the Atlantic Invasion Fleet) aboard the flagship. Allied soldiers stitch sleeve patches. An animated map depicts the Allied invasion of southern France near Toulon in a combined amphibious and airborne assault. Hundreds of transport aircraft carry paratroop forces. The paratroopers get ready, jump, and descend to the ground. The amphibious forces near the French coast. German shore batteries fire at the approaching naval vessels. Explosions on ships and in water. Allied troops crouched in landing crafts. They hit the beach under shell fire and advance in land.
With the help of an animated wall-size map, an American Army Lieutenant Colonel intelligence officer explains details of the German successful breakthough to France during May, 1940, in World War 2. The map depicts the opposing German and Allied lines after the German advances through Belgium and the low countries, and the officer shows their surprise assault through the Ardennes, across the Meuse River and into France, where they shattered the French 9th Army. The map is animated and illustrates as the Officer narrates the events, which end with the successful advance across France to the port of Abbeville, on the Somme River. The subsequent German operations forced British and French forces into an untenable position backed to the English Channel at Dunkirk, France.
Pedestrians in New York City lean against a barrier across the street from the New York Times building on Times Square in New York City. They are looking up at motograph ticker (also known as the zipper) which is showing news reports about the D-Day invasion of France by the Allies in World War 2. Several women and men pause to look up and read the news dispatches, including both civilians and men in military uniform. Camera focuses on a Man in Naval uniform standing near a soldier with a young woman on his arm looking up at the news ticker. Scene shifts to view over the shoulder of a woman standing at a news stand reading a Sun newspaper with headline reading: "Invasion Begins. Armies Storm into France in Great Air-Sea Assault." American flag with 48 stars displayed from window in the Times building, as news display begins reading: "Allied armies invade Europe", and "American British and Canadian troops Swarm..." Closeup of a a man seated nearby holding a newspaper with headline "Invasion Army 10 miles inland." A man's hand holding up the New York Post newspaper with headline, "Invasion - We're in France." He flips to an interior page with headline, "Allies Invade Northern France - Sky Troops Land Deep Inland." Two U.S. Navy sailors in uniform look up at the news ticker. One of them has an unlit cigarette in his mouth. Another man at the news stand reading the headlines. A man buys a newspaper and departs. Man in suit and hat crossing the street while reading the newspaper. Unlit cigarette in his mouth. Women and men in a stopped taxi viewing the Times Building motograph from the car window. More men and women standing and reading the zipper headlines. People in a stopped bus reading the Times displays from the windows of their bus.
Training of U.S. Army infantrymen in the United States. A newspaper headline reads ' infantrymen arrive in France'. The infantrymen are taught to advance on a battlefield. Recruits in New York's Rainbow Division are seen marching in the mud, at Camp Mills, Long Island, They undergo physical training at the camp. They learn to fire rifles and dig trenches. They inhabit a tent city at the camp. Scenes of Rainbow Division soldiers on a chow line at Camp Mills. After basic training, the soldiers board ships and trains for France. Loved ones give them a sendoff. Upon arrival in France, they are given a warm welcome.They resume training in France, until they are ordered to the Front. Scenes of U.S. infantry in trenches wearing gas masks and firing rifles. Tanks advancing across the trenches. View of the 7th Regiment World War I memorial statue in Central Park, New York City.
The inauguration of the first church services in Saint Honorine Des Pertes, France. Soldiers in Jeep pass on the street. Houses, buildings, and shops beside the street. Civilians on the street. Children watch from the window of a house. They wave the French flag. Women enter The Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes Church (Rue de l'Église, 14520 Aure sur Mer, France). Statue of Jesus Christ in front of the church. American soldiers near the church. People come out of the church. (World War II period).
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