The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German advance across Saar and the Rhine. They close in on Belfort, Verdun, Strassburg, Epinal and Colmar. Explosions near a defense line in the battle field. French troops load guns in the Verdun fort bunkers. French soldiers wearing berets shout out instructions inside the fortifications, load and fire artillery guns. Racks full of shells. Soldiers take aim and fire guns. Soldiers operate various machines and equipment. Explosions near railroad tracks. Numerous explosions on hills. German soldiers prepare and fire a Krupp K5 railway gun. German officers brief soldiers with the help of a map on a wall. German infantry crosses a river in motor launches. Firing on either side of the river. Soldiers in boats go across, land ashore and move into wooded area. German troops advance, reduce French strong points. Soldiers fire artillery. German officers ride by in staff cars. Officers and soldiers survey the surrounding hills and landscape. Germans guard French POWs (Prisoners of War). Troops cross a pontoon bridge and enter French forts.
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. German infantry crawl through grass. Artillery shells burst nearby. The German infantry run across a farm field. French defenders are seen operating a heavy gun inside a Maginot Line fort. German infantry cutting through barbed wire surrounding the Maginot Line fort, and employing flame throwers against the top turret of the fort as well as the lower base in the rear. View of the fort blackened by the fire. German troops enter the fort. A Nazi flag flies above it. French officers surrender. French POWs (Prisoners of War) walk along. Prisoners seated and standing about at a prison camp. Wounded prisoners. French Colonial African Senegalese prisoners of war greet one another and then several of them begin to dance.
German invasion of France during the Battle of France in World War II. German army units advance in the Somme department. Horse cavalry, and soldiers in horse carts advance. Artillery bombards French positions. Soldiers fire machine guns across the fields. They take cover in the thick undergrowth. Soldiers push artillery on a road. Wrecked and abandoned Allied tanks and artillery. One knocked out tank with name "Terrible I." A German convoy moves across a bridge over the Canal de la Somme. Aircraft in flight overhead. Many captured French prisoner of war soldiers advance on foot under German guard. German soldiers march in formation with rifles over their shoulders as they enter a French town, while prisoner of war French soldiers standy and watch on the sides of a street. German tanks and other units move through the ruins of Fecamp commune. Soldiers on tanks amidst ruins. Smoke from burning buildings. Artillery units advance. Soldiers amidst rubble and debris. They take cover in a field. A soldier surveys the area with binoculars. They cross hills.
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. French and other Allied soldiers surrender. The soldiers surrender to German officers on a street. Officers question the soldiers. French African soldiers surrender. German troops proceeding through places made famous during World War 1. The World War I battlefield at Compiegne. World War I memorials at the site. French Marshal Ferdinand Foch's statue and a memorial tablet with a dedication to him. A swastika placed on the memorial. A museum containing Foch's railway car in which the World War I armistice was signed. The Alsace-Lorraine Memorial. German troops battle their way through a village. Soldiers march with rifles. armored vehicles advance on roads. Street fighting between German and French soldiers. Soldiers fire machine guns and take cover among the ruins on the village. Rubble strewn across the streets. Soldiers enter and inspect damaged buildings. Smoke due to a sudden explosions nearby. The soldiers pass a corpse on the street.
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. A map depicts the German advance into Rethel, Reims and Chateau-Thierry. Soldiers advance on foot and motorcycles on a tree flanked road. The hills and landscape. Soldiers seated with radio sets at a table. They discuss maps. Soldiers load and fire artillery in fields. Soldiers on bicycles cross a bridge, move through a field. Military vehicles cross over a bridge. Artillery loaded and fired. Germans carry rafts on a road and across a field. Soldiers construct a bridge over a river. German panzer division infantry and tanks advance. They cross the Aisne River as German Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch looks on. He supervises as military vehicles and equipment are taken across the bridge.
United States officials and officers in France during World War I. U.S. Secretary of War Newton D Baker and American Expeditionary Force (AEF) Commander General John Pershing inspect U.S. positions in France. Baker and Pershing with French General Joseph Joffre at the docks. Numerous American and French officials and officers follow. Smoke from stacks in the background. Aerial cranes at work. General Pershing reviews U.S. troops in front of U.S. barracks. Troops march with the U.S. flag.
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