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Secretary Henry Stimson, Generals Bradley and Patton visit a field hospital in Cherbourg Peninsula, France (WW2)

U.S. Secretary of War Stimson, General Omar Bradley, and U.S. General George S. Patton tour a field hospital in Normandy, France during World War II. Bradley poses outside a hospital tent with Secretary Stimson and an army doctor. Wounded soldiers in the tent. Signs on boards outside the tent. The United States Army generals visit a battlefield graveyard above Omaha Beach after D-Day. They drive down to Omaha Beach, still littered with equipment.. They look around. A flag on the beachhead. Soldiers stand on the field. Tents on the field. Soldiers work on the field.

Date: 1944, July 17
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027646
General Eisenhower visits a camp and talks to officers in Cherbourg, France during World War II.

Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Normandy, France during World War II. General Eisenhower with officers as he tours a rugged U.S. Army tent camp. He walks along a path between tents. (The path has deep side ditches for water runoff.) General Eisenhower near a car. Close behind him stands Major General Henry Aurand. General Eisenhower talks with a Colonel. Eisenhower in another area, talks with a very tall soldier, holding a mess kit. Major General Aurand, is in the group of officers behind Eisenhower, as he converses with soldiers eating from their mess kits. General Eisenhower proceeds to his car.

Date: 1945, February 21
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066626
French Forces of the Interior (Formerly the Resistance) actively fight Germans during Liberation of Paris in WWII

The city of Paris, France during liberation from German occupation during World War II. Road signs read 'Cherbourg S. Germain' and 'ZUR Normandie FRONT'. A man appears in a window of a building and sets up the French flag. French people look at a poster informing them that the Parisian Committe of Liberation, formerly the Committee of National Resistance, proclaims the formation of a Provisional Government of the Republic of France. The Hotel de Ville. Resistance fighters (now French Forces of the Interior--FFI) position a piece of field artillery on the sidewalk. FFI fighters occupy buildings and fire rifles from the windows. Notre Dame de Paris in the background. Medical personnel carry a wounded fighter on a stretcher. One woman on the team carrys a red cross flag. Onlookers watch a burning German beute FT17 tank on the street. FFI men fire guns. Medical Red Cross team runs to shelter. Several dead German soldiers and civilians on the street. Red Cross team comes to the aid of wounded men. German prisoners being led along the street.

Date: 1944, August
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061110
Allied troops in Cherbourg, and German prisoners, after the D-Day Normandy landings in World War II

Allied troops soon after D-Day landings at Normandy in World War 2. View of Cherbourg town destroyed by the Germans. A soldier near a wall. The destroyed docks. A soldier on a destroyed inland bridge. French women and a man welcome the Allied troops with bouquets on a destroyed bridge. Hundreds of German officers and soldiers taken prisoners marched on the street. A wounded prisoner in a wheel barrow.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020904
General Omar Bradley with other generals, United States soldiers before the start of Operation Cobra (WW2)

United States General Omar Bradley emerges from a bunker with other generals in Normandy during World War 2. United States generals walking as a group, with General Bradley speaking with General Eisenhower. Television host Alexander Scourby says with regard to Operation Cobra, “No plan in war is fool-proof. But this one is bold, and if it worked it would enable the Allies to break the stalemate in which they have become bogged down”. “Brittany was still the eventual goal” says Alexander Scourby as he points to the region of Brittany in France on the map. United States troops resting and doing chores during their free time. A soldier gets a haircut. A young soldier reads a letter. A soldier doing laundry using a washboard and metal tub. A soldier polishes his leather boots. Soldier cleaning a spot from his uniform. A United States soldier wearing a bowler hat reads a newspaper. Daily News headline reads “OWN OFFICERS BOMB HITLER; PURGE STARTS” after the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks to a crowd at rally. A group of German military troops, with an officer wearing the Iron Cross, convene for a meeting in a forest. A German soldier with machine gun rounds slung over his shoulders smoking a cigarette. German soldiers smoke cigarettes while resting. Shirtless German soldiers digging a trench. German soldier spreads butter on bread. A German soldier drinks water from a bucket. A group of German troops, with close ups showing tired faces. United States General Omar Bradley shakes hands with another officer before boarding a Jeep. Soldiers sitting beside a hedgerow. United States soldiers sitting in a ditch next to a hedgerow and smoking. A soldier holds a pocket watch. A soldier lights up another’s cigarette. A formation of B-17 flying fortress bombers in flight. Close view of bombs dropping towards ground. Aerial view of explosions on ground. A German soldier uses binoculars. A tank on the field. Soldiers creep up beside hedgerow. Soldiers hiding while wearing camouflage. German commander commands troops to fire. German soldiers firing artillery. German soldier puts shell into artillery. Artillery fires behind shrubs. General Omar Bradley observes battle from afar. General Omar Bradley listens to Major General J. Lawton Collins, who is describing how the city of Cherbourg was taken. German armored vehicles covered in camouflage driving. German half-tracks moving.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 5 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079449
German soldiers patrol Cherbourg in France during World War II.

Germans in France during World War II. German soldiers loaded on trucks and on cycles patrol Cherbourg sector of France. A soldier reads a newspaper. Allied planes in flight as a German soldier looks on. Allies attack a German motor column and one being shot dead. A ruined Church. A German soldier plays an organ in the church.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675049534