Eastern France 1939 stock video footage and royalty free HD video clips and photos.(page 1201).

Town of Saint Lo after massive destruction done by allied bombings.

Two United States patrol men talk to each other. One patrol man enters a house. View of a building in the town of St Lo. Patrol men walks through wreckage in Saint Lo. Many views of massive destruction done by allied bombings. A soldier tries to get inside a building. View of Rabbits in cage left by germans. (World War II period).

Location: Saint Lo Normandy France

Date: 1944, July 25

Duration: 1 min 51 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675038873

U.S. Army members of 15th Engineer Regiment observe enemy territory.

View of U.S. Army members of 15th Engineer Regiment in a recon car. They look through binoculars to observe enemy territory. (World War II period).

Location: Perriers-en-Beauficel France

Date: 1944, August 10

Duration: 59 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675039021

French fireman pour water from a hose into a building under fire.

Group of civilians manning a water pump in street. French firemen put up ladders against a building which was hit by shell during World War 2. Firemen climb up the building and direct water from a hose into the building.

Location: Carentan Normandy France

Date: 1944, June 12

Duration: 1 min 8 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675039037

Surf-boarding by surfers at Basque Coast.

Surf-boarding at Basque Coast. Many views of surfers carried along the face of breaking wave using a surf-board and riding on waves of water. Surfer standing on top of the board and lying down on his stomach on the surfboard doing body surfing.

Location: Basque Coast France

Date: 1963, September 5

Duration: 1 min 22 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675039206

Allied forces hold air superiority in battle of Saint Mihiel during World War I.

This film shows numerous types and models of World War One aircraft in operation. It opens showing Allied airplanes preparing for a maximum air campaign in the battle of Saint Mihiel. View from inside a hanger as its flap opens and men push a Sopwith Camel airplane out onto airfield. Map of St Mihiel. American planes warm up on flight line in predawn, with flares burning at wingtips. Huge numbers of allied airplanes are marshaled on airfields throughout the theater of operations and begin taking off. Among them is a French Morane-Saulnier low wing monoplane. German fliers are seen loading small hand held bombs into the cockpit of their Albatross aircraft. Soldiers in combat on ground in "no man's land" during the battle of St. Mihiel. They take refuge in large shell and bomb craters and try to advance running between them.. Germans fliers dropping bombs, by hand, from airplane. Numerous Allied and German airplanes in aerial dogfights. American planes over clouds. American Observation balloon attacked in sky. Balloon in flames, and trailing black smoke as it falls to the ground. French flag flies at an airfield, where a nosed-over airplane sits, by a hangar, as airplanes fly overhead. Aircraft taxiing about in close quarters at airfield. Large formations of American airplanes flying overhead in a grand formation, following the Armistice, November 11, 1918 Then the film shifts dramatically from World War One to the post-WWII year of 1947. It illustrates the dramatic advances in warplanes since WWI by showing U.S. B-36 bombers and straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet fighters is formation.

Location: Saint Mihiel France

Date: 1918

Duration: 3 min 55 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675051727

Gunfire from pockets of German resistance cause panic among Parisians near the Notre Dame cathedral after Free French General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division enters Paris during World War II.

Opening scene shows crowds of Parisians surrounding tanks of Free French General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division and elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division enter Paris, on August 25, 1944, during World War 2. General Charles de Gaulle is seen with French officials in the crowd. A Free French soldier speaks to a tank driver and points to the source of some lingering German resistance gunfire. The crowds drop to the ground as gunfire erupts. A French tank fires its gun at a building harboring the German resistance elements. Some persons take shelter behind jeeps. People scramble for shelter in the courtyard of the Notre Dame cathedral. Smoke rising from targeted buildings. People lying down en masse on the ground as gunfire continues.

Location: Notre Dame France

Date: 1944, August 25

Duration: 1 min 1 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: German

Clip: 65675053984

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Eastern France 1939 stock footage and images

Town of Saint Lo after massive destruction done by allied bombings.

U.S. Army members of 15th Engineer Regiment observe enemy territory.

French fireman pour water from a hose into a building under fire.

Surf-boarding by surfers at Basque Coast.

Allied forces hold air superiority in battle of Saint Mihiel during World War I.

Gunfire from pockets of German resistance cause panic among Parisians near the Notre Dame cathedral after Free French General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division enters Paris during World War II.