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Citizens, soldiers and officers gathered to pay homage to American unknown soldier in Chalons-en-Champagne, France.

Tribute paid to an American soldier in Chalons-en-Champagne, France. People gathered in the city hall (Pl. du Maréchal Foch, 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne, France). The American flag on the building. Officers salute as soldiers carry the coffin of the American soldier who is the selected unknown American soldier, chosen to be represent all such soldiers in the tomb of the unknown soldier in the United States. Officers on horses in the background. The soldiers place the coffin of the unknown soldier on a horse driven caisson. The coffin is carried on the cart. The soldiers and the officers march in the background. An officer addresses people. The soldiers carry the coffin on a dock followed by the officers. People place wreaths on the coffin. The French and the American flag on the ship USS Olympia. The ship leaves the dock. People stand and watch from the dock, bound for the United States and final burial ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC.

Location: Chalons-en-Champagne France
Date: 1921, November
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067412
French leaders Paul Painleve and Monsier Ribot noted as leaders in World War 1 effort

Shows men who have contributed to greatness of France in the war. Paul Painleve, Premier of France and Minister of War talking to a man in a field. Other people stand in the background. Monsieur Ribot, former Premiere and now Minister of Foreign Affairs walking with two other persons in front of a house.

Location: France
Date: 1918
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027274
U.S. Army First Division infantry deploying during World War I

Outdoor munitions depot in France, during World War 1. Stacks of heavy artillery shells are seen lined up in a field. American 1st Division troops prepare defenses near a road in the French countryside. They dig between a long trench and the road. Scene shifts to First Division troops drawing rations at a Quartermaster Supply Depot in Maron, France. The soldiers fill their arms with items set out for them. Change of scene shows 28th Infantry Regiment troops marching along a road between a river and a railroad, where they begin to board rail cars. Several soldiers receive hot beverages from two women volunteers. The troops wave from the cars as the train begins to pull out. (WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1918, May
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027498
General Pershing visits cemetery; Australian, British and New Zealand troops in a wrecked French town during World War I.

Opening few seconds show American General John J. Pershing viewing a grave marker at a fresh cemetery in France during World War I. Next scene shows Australian troops dig trenches in France during World War 1. Australian troops at a destroyed railroad yard. Group of French men and women and children civilians pose for the camera, while British troops stand in background. Close up of an old French woman. The elderly French woman is talking and appears to be expressing thanks to the Allied troops and potentially grief from the devastation of the war. Soldiers on foot pass by a bomb wrecked French town with buildings reduced to piles of rubble from shelling. British troops and supplies on horse carts pass by the streets of the demolished town. British lancer cavalry regiment passes by on horseback, with lances raised. New Zealand soldiers march on railroad tracks to board a train.

Location: France
Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029653
German troops transport war material, build bridges, prepare for battle and sort mail during the Battle of France.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. German war material hauled into France. Trucks are loaded at docks. Soldiers load material. German trucks haul the war material into France. A road sign gives directions for 'Mecheln, Brussel, Antwerp, Mons, Bayern'. The convoy advances. Soldiers and horses in trucks. German soldiers sort and load cans, ammunition and other war equipment into trucks. German engineers and technicians build and repair war material. Engineers repair a bridge. Huge equipment used for the repair. Smoke emitted from a locomotive engine as it crosses the bridge. Soldiers seated cleaning ammunition. German civilians manufacture war material. Workers manufacture ammunition, rifles, guns, shells and artillery pieces. German officers confer over a map on a table. Soldiers ready artillery. Trucks transport German war supplies. German soldiers eat, drink and rest. Some wash clothes, bathe, get hair cuts, get dresses, and read. A soldier bathes a dog in a tub, another washes clothes in a tub. A soldier uses a hand pump, another dries clothes on a line. The men clean ammunition, clean and shoe horses. Soldiers lined up before an officer in a field. German officers and soldiers sated at tables. Officers confer over a map. Soldiers sort mail while others write letters. A sign reads 'Deutsche Feldpost' (German Army Postal Service). A soldier with a mail bag at the entrance. He gets into a mail van and leaves. Soldiers sort mails and parcels.

Location: Western Front European Theater
Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021749
U.S. General Patch, U.S. Admiral Hewitt, and French Admiral Lemonnier lead the Allied fleet invasion of southern France.

Amphibious and airborne Allied forces land in southern France during World War II. (Operation Dragoon in August 1944). Map of France depicts Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day. Naples: An Allied naval force assembles, poised for landing in Southern France, 10 weeks after the Normandy D-Day invasion. Thousands of landing crafts, trucks, tanks, mobile cannons, military vehicles and equipment in the embarkation area. Barrages in flight overhead. Allied officers supervise as the vehicles are loaded into ships. US, French, British, Greek and Polish troops move up to their ships. The ships underway in the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Army General Alexander Patch, French Admiral Andre Lemonnier and U.S. Navy Admiral Henry Hewitt (Chief of the Atlantic Invasion Fleet) aboard the flagship. Allied soldiers stitch sleeve patches. An animated map depicts the Allied invasion of southern France near Toulon in a combined amphibious and airborne assault. Hundreds of transport aircraft carry paratroop forces. The paratroopers get ready, jump, and descend to the ground. The amphibious forces near the French coast. German shore batteries fire at the approaching naval vessels. Explosions on ships and in water. Allied troops crouched in landing crafts. They hit the beach under shell fire and advance in land.

Location: Mediterranean Theater
Date: 1944, August
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021888
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