French civilian refugees on snow covered road during winter, World War II. French refugees prepare their carts filled with household goods. An old woman with basket sits on top of a cart. A young child sits on a wooden wagon. Elderly French civilians carry their belongings and trek on foot. French refugees move along a snowy road with horses and oxen pulling carts. Women pushing their carts as they leave their village. A boy pulls a sled carrying a sack. He catches up with his parents. A United States Jeep drives past the refugees on the road. A dog pulls a cart, helped by a boy. Another dog also helps to pull a cart. Two boys and their pet dog leave their village. Faces of distraught French refugees. United States troops watch the convoy of refugees leaving town.
Exiled members of the Habsburg Dynasty on vacation in Southern France. A cyclist passes by outside the hotel Villa D'Iris in St. Jean de Luz, France (16 Rue de Sainte-Barbe, 64500 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.) Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Pretender to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on a yacht with his family. Former Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma (wife of the late Emperor Charles I of Austria) descends on stone steps. A young blond man in swimming trunks (possibly Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria) stands nearby. Otto von Habsburg gets inside a car with an attendant. A yacht sails away. Otto von Habsburg and some family members walk in a golf course. An attendant opens the villa gate for a car. The Archduke and his siblings are golfing in St. Jean de Luz.
The dispatch boat seen with the French flags. The boat was employed to bring United States President Woodrow Wilson and the American delegation ashore at the Brest Harbour in France for the Paris Peace Conference. A delegate from the French Chamber of Deputies goes aboard to welcome President Wilson and his party. President Wilson and his party leave the USS George Washington ship. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Aerial view of the city of Paris, from a light observation plane, near the end of World War II. Vast crowds in the main district of the city. Crowded grounds of Place De L'Opera (Place de l'Opéra 75002 Paris) and the Church of Madeleine (Pl. de la Madeleine, 75008 Paris, France). View of Eiffel Tower amidst the city expanse. Panoramic view of the city centering on the Arc de Triomphe. River Seine and its vicinity. Maze of streets and buildings. Throngs of people surrounding the Arc de Triomphe and along the Champs Elysees Avenue. A view of the Tuileries Gardens (Pl. de la Concorde, 75001 Paris, France).
U.S. Army General George S Patton visits France. Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) on the Avenue Champs-Élysées. General Patton and French General Alphonse Juin arrive at the Arc De Triomphe in Paris. He is greeted by officers. Photographers click pictures. The General and other officers salute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He places a wreath at the Eternal Light. The General signs the Golden Book. Soldiers give a gun salute. General Patton salutes the French flag. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy officers and sailors aboard a landing craft still at port in England, pose with chart of their destination in Normandy, France, during World War 2. They all raise their caps for the cameraman. U.S. troops fill deck of a large landing craft infantry (film reversed). Views of other landing craft underway. U.S. troops standing aft on a ship. View of a destroyer escort ship. Landing craft underway in moonlight. Barrage balloon visible overhead. A camouflaged Benham class destroyer passing abeam the camera ship. More views of landing craft and barrage balloons. Officer aboard ship using a telescope. A Destroyer escort and another view of the Benham class destroyer. (These color sequences are reversed) Black and White sequence 02:36 to 03:39 shows members of the Canadian North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment approaching and landing on D-day, at La Rive Plage,Bernieres-sur-Mer, France. Scenes are interposed with some of U.S. troops wading ashore at Omaha Beach. At time code 03:40, Troops of the U.S. Army First Division, the "Big Red One," are seen wading ashore on Omaha beach, from Higgins boats of the transport ship, USS Samuel Chase. (APA-26). U.S. soldiers reaching the beach from the surf, as two fall to German gunfire.
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