Lieutenant General George Patton, Commander of the U.S. Third Army, rides, standing up in a jeep, as he arrives in Coutances, France during World War II. He appears to say something as he passes some soldiers standing atop a Sherman tank. He then salutes in the direction of the camera. His jeep passes an M3 half-track carrying soldiers. Closeup of Patton as he passes them, and they smile. His jeep continues along the dirt road, past soldiers waving salutes from atop a Sherman M4A1 tank. View of a Sherman tank equipped with plow blades and camouflaged with foliage. Another Sherman tank (M4A3) with foliage camouflage. Closeup as it passes. Several more Sherman tanks followed by trucks and jeeps carrying infantrymen. Closeups as they pass. An M3 half-track, towing a field piece, is directed at an intersection by an MP (military policeman). More armor and trucks are seen including a Sherman tank equipped with a bulldozer blade, followed by an M3 Lee tank. A spire of the Église Saint-Pierre (Rue de l'Église, 50570 Marigny-le-Lozon, France) at Marigny-le-Lozon is seen in the background as vehicles pass it. A truck and a wheeled vehicle equipped with an A-Frame are parked at the side of the road. An M8 Light Armored Car passes. A jeep carrying medics, displaying red cross emblems, passes a truck towing a field piece.
Allied Invasion of France during World War II. Animated map shows Nazi German line of retreat and Allied line of advance. United States 7th Army tanks and soldiers advance in South France. Civilians greet and cheer as the soldiers arrive. Stack of damaged aircraft on field in Montelimar. Man inspects an aircraft. Jeeps move through forest. Explosions occur in the wooded area. Soldiers fire artillery on field.
Natzweiler-Struthof, a German concentration and extermination camp, in France used by the Nazis for political prisoners from Belgium and France during World War II. The wire-enclosed building of charged barbed wire fence. Details of charged barbed wire fence.
The Presidency of the Council in Vichy, France during World War II. Vichy France Chief of the Radio and Cinema Section Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour seated at a desk. A woman standing nearby and talking to him. Tixier-Vignancour talks into a microphone.
Allied soldiers in France during World War II. Allied infantrymen carrying rifles move up a field in France. Infantrymen move along a road. French civilians gather around the soldiers. A French woman holds a child in her arms. The civilians greet the soldiers.
French partisans, members of Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, also known at the FTP or FTPF, in southern France during World War II. French partisans guard and walk with a accused Nazi collaborator on a street and then stop and interrogate him. The accused collaborationist talks and gestures. A partisan with a rifle advances through rubble. A panel delivery truck with initials 'FTPF' drives past with men inside. French people carry chairs in a street. Two French civilians kiss a man with a patch over his eye. The partisans stand with rifles in the street. The partisans or FFI engaged in street fighting. Grenades fall in the street and smoke rises.
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