Smoke rises from the palace known as the Grand Palais in Paris, France, during the Liberation of France. People watch from a bridge with bicycles parked in the foreground. Huge smoke cloud billows out of the building which was set fire by the remaining German occupation force. View of the Seine River. People on the street with Red Cross vans parked in the background. Views of the burning Grand Palais from various places in Paris. (World War II period).
United States Army Brigadier General Benjamin Davis and troops in Rennes, France during World War II. Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. speaks to correspondents. Brigadier General Davis Sr. smiles. Military trucks drive past French nuns and children on the road to Rennes. A crowd of nuns and children cheer for the soldiers as they pass through Rennes. United States Army soldiers in vehicles enter Rennes, heading towards the Palais du Commerce (Place de la République, 35000 Rennes, France) on Rue Jules Simon. French men and women cheering for the arrival of United States Army soldiers. Two soldiers who had been captured by the Germans. The soldiers talk to the civilians gathered. A woman kisses a soldier. French resistance fighters escort French women collaborators (with the Nazi forces). A French woman collaborationist, with a shaved head and face covered in iodine, being taunted by a mob as she is being led away by resistance fighters.
United States General Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower and other French officials at Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) in Paris, France during World War 2. General Eisenhower and British General Bernard Law Montgomery (wearing civilian clothing) walk along a field. Eisenhower and Montgomery both study a map. General Eisenhower watches military trucks move along the road. Eisenhower points to German wreckage. Remains of a burned German tank outside Paris. General Eisenhower takes a photograph of the German tank using a subminiature camera. Two British soldiers meet and shake hands with General Eisenhower, who is holding a subminiature camera (probably a Riga Minox subminiature camera). General Eisenhower, United States General Omar Nelson Bradley and French officers pose for a photograph at Arc de Triomphe. The crowd gathered waves and cheers. General Bradley and General Eisenhower in car. French civilians applaud and welcome the officials.
U.S. Army 5th Engineering Battalion soldiers on D-Day rescued from a wrecked landing craft during World War II Invasion of France (landings in Normandy France). A wrecked landing craft in heavy surf off Omaha Beach. The U.S. soldiers rescued from water after wreckage of the landing craft. The soldiers are aided to shore by rope line. A rescued soldier being helped by other soldiers. Another group of soldiers aids a rubber raft to shore. The rescued soldiers on the raft. The rescued soldiers carried by other soldiers onto shore. A soldier talks to one of the rescued as the victim lays on the beach trying to recover.
Explosions in a French village in Isigny, France during World War II, three days after the D-Day invasion of France. Smoke rises due to explosion. The civilians pick up their personal gear. Damage and burning ruins in the village. Three U.S. soldiers look at the burning building. A U.S. Army signalman speaks on a telephone. A soldier stands beside him holding a gun. Three U.S. soldiers run a spool of communications wire across the ground towards smoking buildings. A U.S. jeep carrying wounded and flying a red cross flag drives through ruined village. French civilians gathered with soldiers. One French man speaks to a U.S. soldiers.
United States soldiers greeted in Milly, France. View of an island from a rowboat. U.S. soldiers walk in single file along the sides of street in Milly, France, and are greeted by civilians. The civilians standing on either side of a road. Local officials speak to a large gathering of citizens. Townspeople parade down a street, led by several citizents playing musical instruments. An M4 Sherman tank maneuvers past a soldier and a horse. Truckloads of U.S. soldiers move along a road.
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