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French Marshal Philippe Petain addresses a crowd from the balcony of a building in a French town during World War II.

French Marshal Philippe Petain in a French town in 1944 during World War II. Philippe Petain walks along a street with other officials. A crowd cheers. Petain addresses from the balcony of a building. Petain and staff stand at attention saluting as the crowd sings the national anthem.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061141
U.S. flyers who escaped from internment in Switzerland examine destroyed German warplanes in World War II

U.S. flyers, who escaped from Swiss internment, examine remains of destroyed German warplanes at a French airfield. A swastika seen on the tail of an airplane and a German cross on the wing of another. Men stand on the tail of a Nazi airplane. A group stands near the wrecked tail of a large German airplane. A U.S. P-47 aircraft is parked in the background. It has a red cowling, identifying it as belonging to the 56th Fighter Group (likely to the 63rd Fighter Squadron, which in Spring of 1944, showed no squadron color on the tail). .Army Air Force L-5 Sentinel aircraft in flight over a field.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070352
The U.S. 3rd Armored Division on Landing Ship Tanks (LST) lands at Normandy in World War II

Allied troops land in Normandy during reinforcement operations in June 1944, in the weeks after D-Day, in World War 2. The U.S. 3rd Armored Division on Landing Ship Tanks (LST) heads towards Normandy. Tanks, trucks, vehicles and equipment on the LSTs. British crew and officers including the Captain on deck. The Captain looks through binoculars. A sailor looks through a telescope. The beach at Normandy filled with battle ships, carriers and Landing ships wait for the tide to recede off shore to avoid unloading equipment in deep water (landing ramps having been destroyed by earlier storms). Barrage balloons overhead. Soldiers build ramps on the beach. Half tracks, trucks and other vehicles driven off the LSTs and across the ramps on the beach.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020903
French General Charles De Gaulle leads victory celebration of French resistance fighters in Paris

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944. French General Charles De Gaulle leads troops as they march on the Champs Elysees. Soldiers with the French flag. A large crowd of civilians join the celebrations. De Gaulle pays tribute at the Eternal Light at Arc de Triomphe. He is accompanied by French officers and soldiers. Civilians crowd around. De Gaulle and his men parade on the Paris streets. Civilians cheer and celebrate the liberation. Men and women on tanks. U.S. General Eisenhower together with U.S. General Omar Bradley join in the celebration, smile, and talk to American and French military leaders in front of the Arc de Triomphe. The French Resistance flag unfurled on a building. Parisians give the victory sign. The French flag raised on a building. (World War II period).

Location: Paris France
Date: 1944, August 26
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021865
Free French tank crew removing casualties from one of their Sherman tanks during World War II

French tank crew of the Free French Forces, leave their M4A2 Sherman tank to inspect another that has been knocked out. Both tanks display the logo of French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), commanded by General Philippe Leclerc. The destroyed one belongs to the 501ème Régiment de Chars de Combat (501st RCC 3eC) and was knocked out, probably by an 88mm anti-tank shell, on August 13, 1944 in Ecouves forest. Closeups of huge holes penetrating the turret of the tank. The other tank's crew members begin recovering bodies of dead from the stricken tank, which has the name "l'Ourcq" stenciled on its side. They remove the body of one dead soldier and place it on a blanket. They also remove the headless body of another from the tank. (Note: Reportedly, the destroyed tank was number 420583.)

Location: Sées France
Date: 1944, August 13
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034886
U.S. Army troops wade ashore from landing craft during D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II

U.S. soldiers in a landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, in World War II. Support ship firing rockets in background. Barrage Balloon overhead in distance. smoke rising from hillside and many troops already on the shore. View from beach as U.S. troops wade from landing craft and make their way around numerous steel obstacles placed on the beach. Two soldiers felled by German gunfire. U.S. troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment sheltering by an overhanging ledge of chalk cliff at the edge of the beach. Warships and landing craft offshore. View from base of protecting chalk cliff as more troops wade ashore. Troops huddled at base of cliff, some still wearing personal flotation gear. They begin to dig in. Soldiers preparing explosives. View from cliff base of fallen soldiers at waters edge and damaged landing craft in the water. Distant view of bodies of some U.S. soldiers floating in surf at edge of beach.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038892
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