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The Grand Palace, Paris, harboring French Resistance fighters, is set on fire by order of German General Dietrich von Cholitz

German occupied Paris, during World War II, around time of liberation of Paris. The Grand Palace (Grand Palais), a Free French stronghold, is set on fire by German troops under orders of German General Dietrich von Cholitz, Commander of the Paris Garrison. Dense smoke rises from the building. Clouds of smoke cover the top of the building. Shadow of trees in water.

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041924
French firemen fight fire with hose. Cars move to allow fire truck access. Only steel framework and rubble remain.

Smoke rises up from a building. Onlookers watch and automobile moves to allow fire truck access. Firemen pour water from hose. Only steel framework and rubble remain. Other buildings in the background. A man with bicycle passes by. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041926
Jumpmaster talks on microphone during an air search mission.

Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 that crashed in French Italian Alps, on October 24, 1954. Having discovered the crash site, a Search and Rescue jump master kneels near the door of SA-16 aircraft, wearing a helmet, and talking on microphone. View of C-47 crash site on Mount Carbonè in the Italian-French Alps. Rugged mountain peaks are misty and snow covered. Part of the SA-16 aircraft is seen.

Date: 1954, October
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042026
British troops heat and share a Christmas pudding in a trench during World War I.

World War 1 British soldiers dressed in cold weather gear, in a trench with snow all around. A Sergeant heats a canned Christmas pudding over a "fire devil" (metal cooking stand) in the trench. He opens the can and distributes contents to other soldiers in the trench. The soldiers pose and smile after sharing the pudding.

Date: 1916, December
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042463
French troops charge out of trenches and incur casualties, in World War I. They carry wounded to field hospital in trenches.

French soldiers charge, from protection of a deep crater, and suffer casualties, during World War I. Several fallen soldiers are seen on the ground. Troops carry wounded comrades on litters to a field hospital in the trenches. Walking wounded walk in trenches beside a red cross sign.

Date: 1916
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042464
French woman test pilot, Jacqueline Auriol, regains title of world's fastest woman flier, piloting a French Mystere IV N jet

French woman test pilot, Jacqueline Auriol, gets into the cockpit of a French Dassault Mystere IV N jet fighter. She dons helmet and straps herself in. Aircraft taxis and takes off from runway. Personnel in the control room speaks over radio. Technician looks through a scope designed to observe speed. Group of French observers watch the aircraft in flight. The aircraft lands, taxis and parks on the ramp. Woman pilot Jacqueline Auriol climbs down from the aircraft smiling, for she has just regained the woman's world aviation speed record.

Date: 1955, May 31
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044035