Street fighting between German Army and Allied soldiers at Dunkirk, France during World War II. Buildings burning and car wreckage on the streets. Gun fire and explosion can be heard in the background. German artillery crew firing, a building explodes from afar. A German military official surrounded by infantry troops. German soldiers firing at enemy positions. Smoke rises from a burning Allied tank from afar. British soldiers surrender to the Germans. A German officer talks to British prisoners of war. British prisoners of war carrying wounded comrade. A German soldier wearing glasses smokes a cigarette. Upturned damaged vehicles at Dunkirk. German artillery guns on the road. A truck transporting a Howitzer drives past a field with dead British soldiers. Corpse of a British soldier lying face down. More dead British troops.
Two United States Army medics puts a splint on an injured dog in Normandy, France during World War II. One of the medics wraps a gauze on the dog’s injured foreleg while another holds the dog still. Close view showing the medic putting cotton over the dog’s wound. First aid supplies are seen. The medic wraps gauze on the foreleg. The dog winces as the medic treats its wound. The dog licks with foreleg covered with gauze. The medics let the dog go and the dog walks away with a limp.
A soldier salutes at King George VI riding a DUKW on his visit to Normandy, France after the D-Day landings in World War II. The king leaves the DUKW where he is greeted by British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. Montgomery takes King George VI on a tour of the beach head. Montgomery accompanies the king to award British soldiers in Normandy. King George VI presents medals to soldiers of the 21st Army Group headquarters formation. The soldiers salute to King George VI as he presents their medals. The troops raise their hats in honor of the king. King George VI and Montgomery inspects the 21st Army Group standing at attention. King George VI and Montgomery board a car and then a DUKW.
Allied crewmen use binoculars to view the coast of the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy during World War 2. The Allied invasion fleet approaching the peninsula the morning of D-Day in World War II. Allied warships firing rockets at enemy coastal defenses during invasion of France. Landing craft with U.S. soldiers and British soldiers heading toward shore during the assault. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers sailing towards the beachhead. Smoke rises from bombed enemy shore defenses. Allied assault troops landing on beaches of Normandy. Some of the soldiers fall as they are struck by German enemy fire. More troops disembark from landing craft and wade to reach the beachhead.
A motorcade arrives and dignitaries get off. German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring greets French Marshal Philippe Petain and Admiral Francois Darlan in St. Florentin, France. Officers salute the two Frenchmen. Goring talks to Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan. They board a train. The three leaders stand outside the train. A French flag on the car.
Uniformed U.S. war correspondents and U.S. Army officers explore the house and grounds of the French Chateau de Pont-Rilly, in Négreville near Normandy France, soon after the Invasion of Europe. (The chateau was designed in 1765 by architect Pierre-Raphaël de Lozon for the Marquis d'Ourville). U.S. Army officers in the balcony of the mansion overlooking the entrance. Exteriors of the palatial chateau. A large bomb hole is visible in the roof, right of the main entrance. A French boy points out something distant on the grounds of the Chateau. A swan in a pond. Exteriors of the mansion. At the end of July 1944, near the time this footage was shot, the chateau became the headquarters of Advance Section of Com Z, also known as "ADSEC" (Advance Section, Communications Zone).
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