German troops battle French during World War II Battle of France. German troops advance into areas abandoned by retreating French forces. They probe abandoned trenches and fortifications. German troops rush to prepare their blimp airship for launch. Troops handle airship lines. Crew members prepare to board the airship. The airship in flight, above.
A town in the French Alps, possibly Chamonix, France. A man stands next to a car parked on a platform at edge of a river. River and mountain in the background. Two women tourists walk with a glacier behind them. A columned building is in foreground. Next scene shows a group of mountaineers or boy scouts and possibly guides with packs heading out on a hike or mountaineering trip in the Alps. Views of mountains and valleys. Women walk through forest. Farmer using horses to harvest grain in a field. (Amateur home movie.)
American officers aboard a cruiser in France during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces General Dwight Eisenhower, Chief of Staff of the United States Army George Marshal, U.S. Army Air Force General Henry Arnold and U.S. Fleet Admiral Ernest King on bridge of cruiser. Generals in dukw (six wheel drive amphibious truck). U.S. troops and jeeps along road. General Eisenhower and General Arnold get into a jeep. Jeep passes through damaged French village
U.S. Generals in France during World War II. U.S. C-47 Skytrain transport plane taxis down field. C-47 on field with crowd of soldiers around. U.S. General Omar Bradley, Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces General Dwight Eisenhower, and Chief of Staff of the United States Army General George Marshal get out of C-47 and talk together. General Marshal talks to a soldier. General Eisenhower, General Marshal, and U.S. Fleet Admiral Ernest King pull away in command car. Jeep passes through a French town. Generals walk along a field. General Marshal washes face outside a tent.
View of the French Legion Headquarters in London, with flag at half-mast following the capitulation of France to Germany in World War II. Several French officers, including French Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, who support General Charles de Gaulle and his free French forces, walking on the sidewalk. General de Gaulle enters his Headquarters at St. Stephens House (Present day Norman Shaw Building South, 1 Victoria Embankment, London WC2N 5AQ, United Kingdom) in London, and broadcasts, via the BBC, to the French nation, exhorting them to continue fighting, with their Allies, against the Germans.
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi German Minister of Propaganda, drives out in the country to visit with Field Marshal Walter Model, at his field headquarters in France during World War II. Shown are his arrival and then his departure, with exchanges of Nazi salutes.
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