V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) celebrations in Paris, France at the end of World War II. Crowd of Parisians as they parade on streets on V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day). People with French flag along the street.
Liberated French returnees arrive to Paris, France. Child in a carriage. Carriage being loaded into a trolley. Returned Frenchmen after disembarking from U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Returnees enter reception building. French honor band plays. Returnees enter into a building.
Liberated French returnees arrive to Paris, France after World War II. French soldiers and civilians in truck ride up to gates of an airfield to greet liberated Frenchmen. French flag flies from a pole. French officer shakes hands with liberated French soldiers.
U.S. officers and troops in Normandy, France during World War 2. U.S. troops at a beach in Normandy. Full track vehicle moves ahead. African American soldiers of the 320th Battalion pose seated against a German coastal gun emplacement.. U.S. troops outside a German pillbox. Danger sign reads ‘minen’. Barrage balloons aloft in background. U.S. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Commander of the U.S. 1st Army, and U.S. 9th Air Corps Commander, Major General Ralph Royce standing together. Troops inspect an abandoned artillery gun. U.S. soldier stands next to dead German soldier. A crashed Allied glider. U.S. troops around wrecked Allied glider on a road. Road scrapers level an improvised field for aircraft. U.S. P-38 Lightning fighter lands on the field, creating cloud of dust.
View of U.S. Army Field Hospital set up in Normandy, France, following the Allied invasion in World War 2. U.S. DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) passes along a road. American wounded being carried on stretchers to hospital tent. Intravenous treatment being administered to a wounded soldier; man standing holds IV bag. American Army nurses and corpsman preparing bandages inside a field hospital tent. Nurses seated near a tent. One drinks coffee from her metal mess cup. Nurses comforting and assisted wounded soldiers. Two German prisoners of war (POWs) pose for camera. It is unusual that two of the German soldiers appear to be of East Asian descent. (It has been reported that there was a Korean man named Yang Kyoungjong who was three times captured and conscripted into the Japanese army, then the Soviet Army, and then the German Wehrmacht during World War 2. He was captured by the U.S. Army during the invasion of Normandy. The identify of the two German soldiers of Asian descent seen in this footage is unknown.) German POWs carrying a wounded comrade toward a treatment tent. A German POW Army doctor and his assistant treating a soldier for shrapnel wounds. The doctor waves toward German POWs to bring their wounded, on a litter, to him. POWs carrying wounded on a litter. Paratrooper of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, with bandages across his face, carries a wounded buddy to treatment area. Closeup of the trooper smiling in spite of his bandaged face. Ambulatory wounded U.S. soldier being registered by Army nurse. Corpsman of 101st Airborne, on stretcher on the ground.
U.S. artillery firing at German targets in Normandy, France, during World War II. Artillerymen fire gun from sandbagged position on a battlefield. Empty shell cases near artillery gun. Camouflaged artillery guns fires towards German positions.
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