Map of the French coast and English Channel, highlighting major cities. German armored half-track and SP Flak on a Maultier half-track, camouflaged with foliage. German troops driving livestock along a dirt road. German army trucks barely visible under camoflage of tree branches and foliage. Allied fighter bombers attacking German positions and smoke rising from bombing. French civilians salvaging belongings and some leaving their war-torn village. View of destroyed and damaged buildings in the village and citizens working to clear debris. An injured person being carried on a stretcher by white-helmeted voluteers. A family leaving with their belongins piled into a horse-drawn wagon. Boys pulling a wagon with their belongings. Women pushing baby carriages as they leave their homes. A small group of French Colonial troops taken prisoner, being escorted under guard, along a dirt road. Large numbers of Allied prisoners of war (POWs), being marched through a French city, as local French people watch from sidewalks.
Saint Nazaire truce for civilian evacuation during World War II. Fighting is halted to escort St. Nazaire citizens to safety. German troops at a rail road station. A train arrives at the station carrying refugees. They come out of the train and meet the soldiers.
Activities of American soldiers in Frace during World War I. A trench on the battle front. The U.S. Army soldiers walking in the trench. They string wire in the trench. Medics standing and discussing amongs themselves. A soldier lying in prone position and firing rifle from the trench. The soldier crawls backward into safety of the trench. The soldiers standing in the trench. They duck their heads as incoming fire comes from the enemy sides. A gas alarm in the trench. The soldiers are seen quickly putting on gas masks to prepare for a gas attack.
A U.S. soldier brings news of the armistice to troops sitting at their camp. The troops celebrate. They jump and hug each other. They raise hands and applaud. The troops gather and celebrate the news of the armistice by greeting each other and shaking hands. The soldiers discuss the armistice news and walk away. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Views of trenches during World War I. A soldier writes on a pad as he speaks to another soldier at entrance to a dugout in a trench. A French soldier leads several U.S. troops along the trench. Several soldiers peer over the top of the trench toward German lines. Soldiers hide themselves in trenches. A U.S. soldier mans a machine gun nest.
Members of a Reconnaissance patrol, of U.S. soldiers, are seen walking slowly through the small French village of Bru (about 3 miles east of the town of Rambervillers) during World War 2. There doesn't seem to be an established road, as such, but a road sign is erected reading "Bru." A large tree stands nearby. Modest dwellings are seen and a power line pole, as well as a very tall power and/or communications tower. Two soldiers read their notes to another, sitting in an M8 armored car, who reports by radio phone. Another soldier also sits in the armored car. Several army vehicles move along an established road, followed by a jeep, backing along the road, closer to the camera. Closeup of the jeep, stopped in the road, as 3 passenger soldiers look over the area (one using binoculars). The driver seems occupied looking down at the road near the rear of the jeep. A Browning M1919 machine gun is mounted in the jeep. Closeup of soldier with binoculars. Several soldiers walk past a parked jeep. Others stand around the M8 armored car. Glimpse of a soldier standing near the "Bru" road sign. View of narrow tree-lined French country road, on which several soldiers sit on parked jeep. Closeup of them riding on the jeep as it backs along the road. (Reportedly, because the road is narrow, tree lined, and soft on the verges, the Recon vehicles drive backwards into the area, so they can escape quickly if necessary.)
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