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French Resistance Forces fight against Nazi forces in the battle of Paris, France, during World War II.
Battle for Paris during World War 2. Eiffel Tower in Paris. View of the city. Street signs in German. Nazi flags flying from buildings. Women in an apartment fastening FFI (French Forces of Interior) armbands on each other. Men checking their small arms and hand grenades. Outside, men of the FFI camouflage automobiles they've acquired. Aerial view of the Ile de France in the Seine river, and closeup of armed FFI forces taking up positions along the river. FFI members firing at German troops. Several of the Resistance fighters firing at police headquarters, from behind a granite barrier. Dead and wounded German soldiers. Fallen FFI fighters. French resistance fighters seize a German artillery piece. Others with captured German arms. An old man and woman seen looking down from their apartment window. Wounded and captured German officers and soldiers leaving the Police Headquarters building, after being subject to direct fire by captured artillery. Resistance forces gathered with captured German Swastika flag, which one of them presents to the leader of the French Resistance, Gorges Rene Tanguy (aka Colonel Roy-Tanguy). Next, a car drives into the FFI-held Police headquarters, carrying the ex-Prefect of Corsica, Charles Luizet, sent by General Charles de Gaulle to assume command of the Paris Police forces. Uniformed French police are seen in a formation, next to a group of FFI members. Luizet and Tanguy walk together informally inspecting the two groups. Luizet speaks to those assembled, extolling their efforts. Next, a poster calls for volunteers to build defenses. Parisians, using pick axes, dig up paving stones and cart them off to build barricades. Women placing the stones on barricades. Men moving sand bags on carts. Boys helping men to build barricades. Frenchmen checking their weapons. Inside resistance headquarters, women and men, oftain information about disposition and status of German units and about approaching Allied forces. The Notre Dame cathedral viewed from a window of the Resistance headquarters. French police in position with weapons ready. German tanks moving near the Hotel de Ville. A Resistance bugler sounds call to arms. German Panzer I tanks on the streets and passing barricades. Parisians fell a tree as a tank deterent. Closeup of Notre dame facade from Resistance defense position. German snipers on Cathedral roof fire at FFI running across the square. Many scenes of street fighting, and individuals being hit, rescued, and the like. German vehicles on fire. Several German prisoners. Resistance fighters looking out windows of the Battle-scarred Hotel de Ville. Many scenes French exchanging fire with German snipers. More German prisoners.
U.S. P-47 aircraft strafes a train and an open field in European Theater during World War II.
Aerial views of Allied air attack in the European Theater during World War II. Gun sight aiming point view of a train strafed by an American aircraft, smoke rises. The pilot in a U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft in flight over Corsica, France. Pilot with the oxygen mask. Aircraft flies over a town. Gun sight aiming point view of a field being strafed. Buildings in the field. Smoke rises.
Italians cheer as American soldiers of the 5th Army enter Rome, Italy, during WWII
The United States 5th Army enter Rome, Italy during World War II. Italians fill the streets and cheer for the Americans. Italians gather in front of the Porta San Giovanni (00185 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy) near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Crowds of Italians cheering in front of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Soldiers on military vehicles, M4 Sherman tanks, trucks and jeeps proceed into the center of Rome, past the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) and other ancient structures and landmarks including the Vittoriano and Capidoglio on Capitoline Hill. United States soldiers in truck near the Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo, Via del Circo Massimo, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Crowds gathered in front of the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Men carrying the Italian flag on top of a truck driving in Via del Corso. The American, British and Italian flags hang in front of the Campidoglio. Façade of the Campidoglio (Piazza del Campidoglio, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Young Italian men and women wave at the camera while marching. Italians hitch a ride with soldiers on a Jeep in front of the Saint Peter’s Basilica (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). Some Italian civilians ride with U.S. soldiers on their trucks. U.S. Lieutenant General Mark Clark consults with two U.S. Major Generals.
Inhabitants of San Pietro Infine, Italy, attempt to begin life anew, after U.S. Forces capture the village from German Forces, during World War II
Aftermath of the Battle of St. Pietro Infine, Italy, after it was taken by soldiers of the U.S. 36th Division, 143rd Infantry Regiment and troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers of the 143rd Infantry Regiment, scramble down a mountainside over rubble from destroyed buildings in San Pietro Infine, Italy, following the battle there during December 1943. (These scenes were photographed later, in 1944.) Next, more local people are seen running from a mountain cave, where they had taken refuge during the battle of San Pietro. Old people, women, and children make their way down the rubble strewn hillside and onto a remnant of road surrounded by destroyed buildings. Italian women carry their belongings balanced on their heads as they walk towards the remains of their dwellings. A man leads two cattle. One woman carries a new coffin balanced on her head. An 82nd Airborne trooper warns local people about the danger of mines and booby traps left behind by retreating German soldiers. A soldier removes a booby trap in a doorway. Women trying to clean up and settle in the ruins of their homes. As one woman sweeps debris, an huge explosion occurs, bringing down large portions of a building. U.S. Soldiers dig through debris, with shovels. An MP and infantryman stand with several Italian men as one is grief stricken while they retrieve the body of a loved one from the rubble. A woman weeps. Women nurse and comfort their babies. Small children are seen happily emerging from a cave. A mother admonishes her boy. Women and children are relieved and smiling. Several children scamper down a hill. Others are seen walking about and posing shyly for the camera. Local men clearing rubble and women washing clothes in an outdoor stream as they try to reestablish some normalcy in their lives. A shoemaker resuming business at a small bench outdoors. Men unloading sacks of flour from a truck. People purchasing flour being weighed in an outdoor market. Farmers plowing fields with oxen. A church procession, led by a youth carrying a Christian banner, moves from a bombed out church, between mounds of rubble, . Statue of a Saint at the church.
Allied troops fighting toward and entering Rome, Italy during World War 2
British and troop patrols converge on the road to Rome, in the beginning of this film. Soldiers of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and 5th Canadian Armored Division are seen next, mopping up after breaching the Hitler Line, on 24 May 1944. They are seen leaving the area to advance further. Brief view of soldiers tending to a tank and marching past an abandoned anti-aircraft gun. Captured German prisoners march rearward along a road as a camouflaged (with foliage) Canadian M4 Sherman tank advances along a road. It carries many infantrymen riding along atop it. (Narrator states they are en route to Pontecarvo.) Allied artillery pounds the ruined streets of the city. Canadian troops are seen next,entering the destroyed town of Aquino. British Hawker fighter planes flying over water in trail formation, behind the camera plane. Allied patrol from the Anzio front engages a German strong point, using bazookas and small arms. Glimpse of burning German armored vehicle. Polish troops are seen entering the village of Piedimonte. They pull a German from his hideout in a trench. German prisoners marching under guard. Stretcher bearers carry wounded to an open field where they are being tended. Polish forces hold a ceremonial parade where British General Sir Harold Alexander decorates a Polish soldier. Brief closeup of General Alexander. June 4, 1944, American troops enter Rome. German Sturmpanzer (panzer) IV "Grizzly Bear" tank abandoned on the street. U.S. troops walking about in the city. Local inhabitants cheering the Americans. Italians mob the local fascist controlled radio studio and force occupants to leave the building, abusing some as they depart. Views of happy crowds. Some showing newspapers announcing the arrival of the Allies.
German Army fortifying coastal areas of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy, in World War II
German military preparations to fortify the Italian coast near Anzio and Nettuno, during World War 2. Thousands of German heavy artillery shells stacked in an ammunition dump in Italy during World War 2. German soldiers form line and pass shells and other ammunition to each other for loading into trucks. View from German Coastal shore guns overlooking the Anzio-Nettuno areas in Italy, before the Allied amphibious attack of January 22, 1944. German soldiers attend to their guns. German soldiers preparing more gun positions on side of a mountain. A German tank being covered with foliage, on a mountainside.
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