United States 79th Infantry Division troops in assault boat on the Seine River at the town of Limay France, during operations for the liberation of Mantes, France. The 90th Infantry Division troops bring a wounded German prisoner and his motorcycle across the Seine River in the assault boat. While traveling on motorcycle (seen being unloaded from boat), the German soldier had been hit by fire from Sergeant Harril (seen standing over him with his rifle in the boat). The U.S. soldiers attend to the prisoner and put him on a stretcher. The soldier chewing gum who is standing while the boat is crossing the Seine, and moves the motorcycle off the boat and then assists the injured German soldier disembarking from the boat is Lieutenant Stockridge Bacchus, from "A" Company of the 314th Infantry Regiment of the 79th U.S. Infantry Division. (World War II period).
Ambassador Hugh C Wallace of United States and other officers visit the Suresnes cemetery in France. Honor guard of French soldiers stand besides path at cemetery. Ambassador Wallace arrives and officials follow him. Soldiers stand besides path with flags of France. Ambassador stands with other officials in front of wreaths on graves and salutes. Soldiers stand at the side with rifles.
Stairs of the Quai d' Orsay, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, in Paris, France. President of France Raymond Poincaré leaves Quai d' Orsay (37, Quai d'Orsay - 75007 Paris) after attending the formal opening of the Paris Peace Conference after the end of World War I. A French guard standing on the stairs. President Poincaré boarding his car.
Women carry bales of wool for processing in Mazamet in France. Wool washed in large containers with warm and cold water. Clean wool put in a machine for drying, operated by a woman. Women sort wool from the cleaned bales. Old man wearing beret sits on a stone bridge, and lights pipe. He remembers the time just after the war when France had no money, industry and factories. Machines stand idle, streets with closed shops and houses with closed shutters. Closed banks. Men cutting logs of wood. Other men fishing in river. Afterwards Marshall Plan provided financial aid. People back to work. Factories opened up. Processing of wool taking place.
A French soldier walks through bomb craters and devastation in a Battle of the Somme World War I battlefield in France. Wrecked trees in the field. Shell wrecked trenches. View of trenches from above. Ruins of a building and ruins of the bombed out church at Esnes France. Wide shot of barren landscape scarred and devastated by bombing and battle of World War I.
Anti-communist propaganda piece in the 1950s: A Communist parade in Paris, France. Communist demonstrators chant slogans like 'Stop the War in Indo-China', Down with warfare',' Unite with Russia for world peace'. People carry signs and banners reading 'France', 'US Go Home' and many more. A mock attack by a boy on another boy dressed up as an American Military Police. A union of French women with banners reading phony title for a communist front organization. Big replica of Stalin's party line novel. Main body of procession includes parade by Communist-led trade unions. A parade of French military might in an other part of Paris. Thousands of French soldiers armed with rifles march on a tree-lined street. People gather in great numbers to witness the parade. A parade of French military trucks, artillery, and tanks.
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