Soldiers on top of a tank in Normandy, France during World War 2. Soldiers moving carefully on the road to Saint-Lô, France. A road sign reads “Saint-Lô”. A United States soldier crouching roadside with rifle. Thick black smoke forming. Armored infantry from the 2nd Armored Division wearing camouflage jackets take cover against a tank. Bomb explosion in Saint-Lô. Soldier firing rifle. Soldiers move on a street with destroyed houses. United States tank fires during street fighting. Tank fire hits buildings in Saint-Lô, creating smoke. Soldiers running. A wall breaks apart and falls after being hit by artillery. Sherman Crab minesweepers (M4 Sherman tanks fitted with flails) moving through a field. Soldiers conduct a mop-up operation in Saint-Lô. Soldier enters a house. Soldiers walking on devastated streets of Saint-Lô, with destroyed houses and piles of debris. An M10 tank destroyer enters Saint-Lô. A soldier reading a road sign “SAINT-LO SA CATHEDRALE SON PANORAMA DON DE CLAUDEL”. The remains of a United States Army infantry commander lies in state, covered by the United States flag, on top of a pile of rubble of the Église Notre-Dame de Saint-Lô (2 Rue Carnot, 50000 Saint-Lô, France). Aerial view shows damaged building in Saint-Lo. Television host Alexander Scourby reads a book titled “Breakout and Pursuit” by Martin Blumenson. Alexander Scourby closes the book and speaks to the audience.
A Frech military unit salutes as an officer gets off a train. Dignitaries greet the officer. Soldiers with their belongings walk in a street. Civilian recruits in a bus proceed for an Army reception center. Military officers around a microphone at a camp. Soldiers gathered to hear the speech. Soldiers salute the French flag. (World War II period).
Tractors and plows made in a French factory. A manufacturing plant. Worker inspects a Lanz Bulldog tractor. Tractors lined in a field. Men drive the tractors ahead for work. Workers plow a field. Unassembled parts of tractors and plows at the manufacturing plant. A train car loaded with tractor and plow parts. Men operate a wheat cutter to harvest wheat in a field.
August 1944: U.S. soldiers get off a Landing Craft on the French coast. Soldiers on U.S. battleships. U.S. officers discuss among themselves. Soldiers move across the beach. Soldiers sit outside an abandoned unfinished German pillbox. They examine German artillery. A camouflaged German gun IMPLACEMENT. A U.S. Landing Craft hit by a German radio controlled flying bomb. The charred and destroyed craft on the beach. Soldiers unload heavy equipment and vehicles including jeeps and tanks from Landing Crafts. U.S. battleships in the background. Blimps in the sky. Soldiers move across a street. Soldiers in trucks. Engineers construct an airstrip through a vineyard. Heavy machinery and equipment used to remove the rubble and bushes, as well as to level the ground. Military trucks and vehicles on the road. (World War II period).
Women leaders of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). French women patriots Marquis de Chabannes La Palice and Madame AC Staehling. Both women being interviewed by several men. The women seated at tables. They smoke cigarettes while giving the interview. The interviewers seated around the two women.
French soldiers unload containers of ETO Blood Bank from an aircraft onto a military truck. The military truck passes under a board which reads 'Entrepot Frigorifique Des Halles Certsales.' Soldiers put blood bottles into containers. Doctor inserts a drip into French soldier's arm and checks the flow of blood in the drip. Instrumental soundtrack in background. (World War II period).
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