Scenic views of Corsica, France. A street in the city. A girl sitting by a window of a building. View of the city in the background. A man and a woman talking. A girl opens a wooden gate. The view of the buildings in the city through the gate. A woman and a girl seated on the ground beside trees talk. A scenic view of fields and buildings in the background. A man walking on a road. Trees lining the road. A man moving on a road seated on a burro. The road lined by a wire fence on one side. Trees on the other side of the road.
A U.S. Army camp in Corsica, France during World War II. The army camp is surrounded by trees. Farmers on an oxen-drawn wagon loaded with hay moving on a field. A bundle of hay on the field and a building in the background. The farmers are pitching hay. They stand on the hay bundles and look up at the sun. A farmer riding the oxen-drawn hay wagon along a road. Views of Alto Airbase. Two men walking beside burros carrying bundles on their backs. A United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft parked on the air base. The oxen-drawn wagon moves from one side of the field to the other side. The farmers are pitching hay. One of them on the hay bundle on the field and the other on the hay in the wagon. Views of the two farmers pitching hay. The farmers looking up at the sun.
French Forces of the Interior ( FFI )men in Marseilles, France during World War II. French officers parade on a street. A huge crowd looks at the parade from either sides of the street. People hold flags. The soldiers holding guns stand at attention. People on the top of a building. Two of them hold the French flags. An officer salutes. The officer decorates FFI (French Forces of the Interior) men standing in a row and shake hands with them. The FFI men walk away. View of the crowd and the formation of French soldiers. People holding the French flag. Men, women and children among the crowd.
Fire in the The Wilson Square - Champ-de-Bataille Square municipal theatre (located in the Place Wilson) in Brest, France. The architect was Antoine Choquet de Lindu. People on the street outside the Theatre during the fire. French firemen and U.S. troops (immediately post World War 1) arrive in trucks to fight the theater fire. The fire fighters extend water hoses from the trucks and from manual pumps to the building. Men climb up ladders to the first floor of the building. Men standing on the balcony of the first floor holding the hoses. Broken windows of the ground floor in view. Men break windows on more doors. They position hoses and spray water from hoses through a window of the first floor. Firemen go up and down the ladder. A huge group of men outside the building operating a see-saw manual water pump. (The theater was completely destroyed and rebuilt in wood at the Place de la Liberté.)
United States President John F. Kennedy and French President Charles de Gaulle in Paris, France. An aircraft arrives at Paris Orly Airport. Several people gathered on the airfield. U.S. President John Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy come down the steps of the aircraft. President Kennedy is greeted by President De Gaulle and other officials. A French officer salutes and greets the President. The President shakes hands with the officials. President Kennedy, President de Gaulle, and the officials walking on the airfield. Aerial view of vehicles moving on streets. Several horsemen on the streets. The officials moving in an open carriage. Horsemen escorting the carriage. People gathered on both sides of the streets to the motorcade. U.S. and French flags hoisted on poles. Soldiers standing on sides of a path. President Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle go up the steps of a building followed by their wives, Mrs. Kennedy and Madame Yvonne de Gaulle. The Presidents talk.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe General Dwight Eisenhower and Commander of U.S. 3rd Army General George Patton in 3rd Army area near Nancy, France during World War II. General Eisenhower with General Patton at 3rd Army front area visits Division Command Post and speaks to soldiers. The Generals inspect battle damage, gas and ration depots and U.S. 12th Evacuation Hospital.
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