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A crowd cheers as Charles de Gaulle arrives and is greeted by a French officer in Paris, France.

French General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle returns to Paris, France during World War II. A crowd of the French civilians on a street as General Charles de Gaulle's car enters. Parisian motorcycle corps surround the car. The car en route along the Champs Elysees. Charles de Gaulle gets off the car amid cheers from people. He salutes a French officer standing in front of a line of personnel carriers. Officials and Charles de Gaulle walk past the line of personnel carriers and tanks and move towards the Arc de Triomphe. The crowd cheer the name of De Gaulle, celebrating the liberation of Paris.

Date: 1944, August 26
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067179
Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) in an underground headquarters in Paris, France during World War II.

The secret Free French headquarters in Paris during World War 2. Opening scene shows the Lion Of Belfort Statue, at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, France. Pedestrians and cyclists are moving through the area. Next are views through the windshield of a car driving around the statue. It drives up a side street, and a passenger is let out. As the car drives away, the passenger enters a building, housing the secret headquarters of the Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and goes inside. He proceeds through some anterooms and down several flights of stairs deep into a subteranean room where he is admitted by a man wearing a white FFI armband. He delivers a paper message to one of two men sitting at a table. The information causes various members of the FFI in the headquarters to begin taking actions to plan a mission. A woman transmits the informtion and orders via a teletype machine.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067180
Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill together in Paris, France following its liberation in World War II

Opening scene shows French General Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as they leave a French Headquarters building in Paris, France, after its liberation in World War 2.. It is snowing. An American soldier, bugler, is blowing a salute. Another U.S. soldier holds the door of a staff car open. Among those following Churchill and de Gaulle, is British Field Marshal Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. And (behind two French civilian officials), is French General Marie-Pierre Kœnig. Next, is seen an honor guard of American soldiers, rendering rifle salutes with right shoulder arms. Alternating Closeup glimpses of Churchill, de Gaulle, and company with those of the honor guard. Very close view of Churchill. Scene shifts to French military drum and bugle corps playing. Closeup of Churchill, de Gaulle, Brooke, and French General de Lattre, all saluting, and a French military color guard dipping colors in salute as others render rifle salutes. More views of French honor guard. Next, a jeep carrying General de Lattre, in front and Churchill and de Gaulle in the rear, passes by with occupants saluting. Glimpse from rear of French military honor guard. The jeep passing between troops in formation and a line of American Sherman tanks with their crews standing in front of their tanks. Views from various angles of the scene.

Date: 1944
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067182
U.S. troops in landing crafts approach the French shoreline during the invasion of Normandy, France.

During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Landing crafts approach the French shoreline. The crafts underway off the coast of Normandy. A rocket is fired from a naval vessel offshore. Water splashes due to a fire. A landing craft and an invasion fleet move towards the beach. U.S. troops in the landing craft.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068783
On D-Day, U.S. troops land on a beach and advance across a beachhead during the invasion of Normandy, France (WW2)

During D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. troops land on a beach. They carry a wounded on a litter. The soldiers of 3rd Battalion land on a very small parallel beach. They are trapped against a chalk embankment on which were Nazi German machines and guns. The soldiers dig foxholes on the open beach. The soldiers are seated in a group on the beach. Landing crafts near the shore. U.S. soldiers in a landing craft. A group of soldiers advance across the beachhead. Two of them are hit by enemy fire and fall. A U.S. medic gives first aid to the wounded.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068784
Wounded soldiers are provided first aid and dynamite fuses are prepared during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France (WW2)

Allied troops during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. A United States Army medic gives first aid to wounded soldiers. Three Nazi German prisoners are captured by U.S. 3rd Battalion and U.S. 16th Regiment troops. Blood plasma given to the wounded. Soldiers huddle together on a small beach. The three Nazi prisoners are seated separately. The soldiers dig a foxhole in the foreground. One soldier in the foxhole in the background. The soldiers prepare dynamite fuses.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068785