Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Wounded Allied soldiers are being unloaded from a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Sky Train/Dakota aircraft. Wounded on stretchers being unloaded from the aircraft and placed in an ambulance. Wounded soldiers on litters.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. U.S. troops on a beach with a Landing Ship Tank in the background. African American troops unload barrack bags from the LST. Soldiers milling about on the Green beach. A Signal Corpsman climbs up and down from a telephone pole. Tanks roll on the beach. German prisoners carry steel mats for vehicles to go over. The vehicles go over the steel mats. Some vehicles stuck in sand and being towed. Vehicles unload from the LST.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Accused Male collaborators being arrested for assisting the Germans and taken away by FFI (French Free Forces) men. An old woman kisses men on a street. German prisoners of war, under guard, march past a military truck on a street. They are halted as British soldiers approach carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Forces A-26 Invader aircraft taxis along a field. Propellers of another A-26 rotate and it begins to taxi. Armorers and ground crew work on an A-26 aircraft in a field. Men work on the nose section of the aircraft. A crew member works under the fuselage of the aircraft.
At beginning, and throughout the film, organ music is heard as camera pans from top of a church tower, down across the roof and sides, to the front of a church building in a German occupied town in Southern France, during World War 2. A lone German soldier patrols an empty street in the background. Closeup of the German soldier patrolling. Camera pans over stained glass window inside the church to a German soldier at keyboard playing the church organ. Camera shifts to view of interior balcony and stained glass windows at front of the church. View of soldiers hands on the keyboard as he plays the organ. Interior view of side of the church with pillars above which Gothic arches extend toward the roof. Camera pans down to view from behind the organist, showing him and the full interior of the church in the background, behind him. (The organ is located in a loft at the rear of the church.) Closeup profile of the soldier organist. Camera pans inside, showing damage to roof and then down to large pieces of masonry rubble on the floor. View changes to closeup profile of a German soldier standing outside at the door of the church.
Liberty ship sailing towards the coast of Cherbourg during World War 2. Ambulance and vehicles on deck of a Liberty ship to France. A truck is hoisted up from a ship. The hoisted truck is being to a landing craft alongside ship. Soldiers pulling ropes.
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