Allied forces bomb French rail lines in Dreux, France during World War II. Animated map shows the location of Dreux, southwest of Paris. The 9th Airforce Marauders on Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers flying over the English Channel. Surface craft are ferrying men and material on the English Channel. Aerial view of the Normandy countryside with abandoned gliders. German aerodrome in Dreux. Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers dropping bombs over railroad tracks, highways, and communication lines in Dreux. Clouds of smoke form from aerial bombing of Dreux. 9th Airforce Marauders drop bombs over a highway junction southwest of Caen, Normandy. Clouds obscuring the target after bombs are dropped. Pillars of smoke rise from the target area.
United States Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bombers bombing railway, highway and airfields in Northern France after the Normandy Landings (WW2). United States Ninth Airforce Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bombers flying to the German-occupied airfield of Lessay, Normandy. Aerial view of Lessay and nearby highway and railroad bridges being bombed. A Douglas A-20 Havoc drops bombs over a town south of Cherbourg. A railroad bridge is bombed. Dark smoke pillar rises from bombed railway bridge. Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bombers flying to bomb the Seine and the Belgian border two weeks after the Normandy landings. Thick clouds of smoke covers the heavily bombed airfield.
Allied motor convoys move to the front in deep snow of western front, France during World War II. A convoy of United States Army trucks drive along snow-covered road in winter. Trucks and other military vehicles pass by forests and take mountainous hairpin road. Trucks pass by a checkpoint. Soldiers sit at the back of a truck. Ski troops wearing snow capes glide the snow-covered slopes. The soldiers carefully cross a fence. Skiing soldier in snow cape slips on the slope.
Allied troops enter Paris, France during World War II. A large number of French civilians gathered on either side of a street. Civilians cheer and wave after their liberation from Nazi German rule. People clap and wave. the Opera House (Palais Garnier, Pl. de l'Opéra, 75009 Paris, France) in the background. A tank moves past the Opera House. The Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Women collaborators in Paris, France, in the Chatou suburb of Paris, France, during World War II. Women who collaborated with the Nazi German forces have just had their heads shaved, and then leave a balcony down a stair and walk in a single file through the crowd. A woman collaborator crying. They walk past French civilians gathered on either side of the street. Two French women stand close to each other. Women collaborators lined up.
United States 79th Infantry Division troops in assault boat on the Seine River at the town of Limay France, during operations for the liberation of Mantes, France. The 90th Infantry Division troops bring a wounded German prisoner and his motorcycle across the Seine River in the assault boat. While traveling on motorcycle (seen being unloaded from boat), the German soldier had been hit by fire from Sergeant Harril (seen standing over him with his rifle in the boat). The U.S. soldiers attend to the prisoner and put him on a stretcher. The soldier chewing gum who is standing while the boat is crossing the Seine, and moves the motorcycle off the boat and then assists the injured German soldier disembarking from the boat is Lieutenant Stockridge Bacchus, from "A" Company of the 314th Infantry Regiment of the 79th U.S. Infantry Division. (World War II period).
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