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Damaged buildings and ruins in French town of Chaumont-Porcien, during World War II.

Ruins in the French town of Chaumont-Porcien, in the Ardennes region, during World War II. Damaged buildings in the town. View of "Le Poilu victorieux de Chaumont-Porcien": A World War 1 statue of a French soldier in the Place de la Mairie. (The statue is a rendition of the Monument to the dead by Eugène Bénet, designed in 1920 in memory of French soldiers who died in World War I. It depicts a French soldier or "Poilu" with rifle in left hand, holding aloft a laurel wreath or olive branch with his right hand.) A small circular fenced cemetery beside the monument is shown, containing crosses and German helmets of recent German soldiers deaths. German Army vehicles advance into town, passing horse drawn carriages lined up on a street.

Date: 1940
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073796
French General Jacques Le Clerc, Commander of French Forces in Indochina, visits a French base and reviews troops.

General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Commander of French forces in Indochina, arrives by airplane and is greeted at military air base. He reviews troops arrayed in formation and converses with French Naval officers.

Date: 1947
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043777
General LeMay takes oath of office as the Chief of Staff of USAF at the White House in Washington DC,United States.

General Curtis LeMay being sworn in as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force at the White House in Washington DC, United States. The White House in Washington DC. Air Force Secretary Eugene M Zuckert administers the oath of office to General LeMay at the White House portico. President John F Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Senator Dennis Chavez and Stuart Symington, General Thomas D White, General Lyman Lemnitzer and General Nathan F Twining in the background. President Kennedy, Secretary Eugene and General LeMay carrying bibles as they step down to the porch of the White House. Secretary Eugene Zuckert swears in General LeMay as the Chief of Staff of the USAF as he speaks into a microphone. After the swearing in President Kennedy speaks at the microphone. The President reads out a citation over the microphone. The citation being presented to General LeMay. General LeMay speaks into the microphone. Vice President Johnson, Senator Dennis Chavez and Stuart Symington, General Thomas D. White congratulate General LeMay. General LeMay being kissed by his wife and shakes hands with General Nathan Twining and General Lyman Lemnitzer.

Date: 1961, June 30
Duration: 6 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059851
Radios confiscated by Nazi German forces are returned to the civilians of Bayeux, Normandy.

August 1944: Civilians outside the Civil Affairs Committee building in Bayeux, Normandy. A large crowd waits outside the building. Men and women lined up. Radios confiscated by the Nazi German forces are returned to the civilians. Men and women walk out the building with their radio sets in boxes. Men and children on the street as military vehicles pass by.

Date: 1945
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020661
French and U.S. troops celebrate Bastille Day in liberated Cherbourg.

U.S. and French troops parade in liberated Cherbourg on Bastille Day. The troops and civilians gathered in a city square. Men, women and children watch. Soldiers and civilians hold flags. The US, French Navy and French Forces of the Interior (FFI) march alongside. The band plays. People watch from their homes. General Charles De Gaulle present at the celebration. 'Vive De Gaulle' on a banner. The square is renamed 'Place General De Gaulle.' Soldiers and policemen salute. Children hold flowers. People sing and dance in the square. Musicians play their instruments. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, July 14
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020671
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