Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and French General Charles De Gaulle meet for the first time in 14 years in Paris, France. Sir Winston Churchill and French President of the Council of Ministers, Charles De Gaulle, meet as Churchill emerges from a car. People stand beside railings and watch. De Gaulle confers France's most exclusive honor, the "Order of the Liberation," on Sir Winston Churchill. Guards stand with swords at entrance of building. Churchill and De Gaulle with their wives.
War crime trials of World War II in Paris, France. People enter the Palace of Justice (10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris, France) to observe French Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's trial for treason. Guards check everyone's IDs before they enter the court. People, judges, and lawyers enter the courtroom. The interiors of the court. Marshal Petain enters the courtroom dressed in Marshal's uniform with single decoration. The Marshal sits in a chair. Solicitor General Andre Mornet enters and questions Marshal Petain. A witness speaks. Former Premiers Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud give evidence. Pierre Laval testifies as well.
Allied Operation Jubilee, the assault against Dieppe, France, during World War Two. A sign reads 'Dieppe'. Fighter aircraft diving down across a harbor area. German anti-aircraft guns are fired from fortified positions behind barbed wire. Explosion of a gas tank in the dock area. German defenders, in grass above beachhead, firing rifles and artillery pieces. Wrecked British Churchill tanks on Dieppe beach. Wrecked tanks and a landing craft along a shore. Dead bodies on the beach. German soldiers sitting abandoned craft in the water. The streets of Dieppe, France showing captured British soldiers being marched down a street escorted by German soldiers. A wounded English soldier being carried down a street by four other English soldiers. The wounded soldier with his left eye covered with blood. Other British casualties entering the town. Surrendering British soldiers being escorted up a country road. The coastline of Dieppe. City population going about their business. Men, women and children walking in a street. German coastal guns being erected. Various types of guns and their mountings, camouflaged gun positions, guns being raised into firing position. Coastal gun barrels. A German motor train moving through a street of Germany. A large half-track vehicle towing a string of trucks through a street. A ship plowing through a heavy sea. A large submarine fleet underway at sea. The guns of a battleship are fired. A Higgins boat going through water towards a coastline. Marines aboard the Higgins boat approaching the shore. A coastline showing invasion troops hitting the shore.
United States Army Air Service (USAAS) 94th Fighter Squadron in Toul, France during World War I. Captain J. A. Meissner climbs out of the cockpit of Eddie Rickenbacker's SPAD S. XIII fighter aircraft and walks away. "Hat in Ring" insignia on side of the aircraft. Three ground crewmen work on a SPAD XIII. 1st Lieutenant Allan Rankin who is an Engineering Officer reads a notice. They pound each other on the back and jump around. Commanding Officer 1st Pursuit Squadron Major Hartney and Operations Officer 94th Aero Squadron Lieutenant Cunningham stand in front of a Fokker V-8 shot down by Lieutenant Rickenbacker. In Toul, France on 18th April, 1918: A group of officers of 94th Aero Squadron including Major J. W. F. M. Huffer, Major Raoul Lufbery, Captain J. N. Hall, Captain Kenneth Marr, Captain D. McK. Peterson, Lieutenant J. B. H. Smith, Lieutenant C. A. Rankin, Lieutenant Reed Chambers, Lieutenant Douglas Campbell, Lieutenant W. L. Loomis, Lieutenant James N. Neissner, Lieutenant M. E. Green, Lieutenant A. L. Cunningham, Lieutenant A. F. Winslow, Lieutenant C. W. Chapman and Lieutenant P. H. Walter, Surgeon, standing in front of a USAAS Nieuport 28 C-l.
Cleaning of Quai d'Orsay Foreign Ministry Palace in Paris, France. View of the Quai d'Orsay (37 Quai d'Orsay, 75007 Paris, France) and its interiors. Army of workmen brighten up the Palace for the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon of the United Kingdom. A man uses feather duster to clean an ornate Baroque clock. Workmen scrubbing a bathtub. The workmen clean chandelier, clocks, and bathtubs.
Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler visits Paris, France with architect Albert Speer during World War II. Also joining them is architect Hermann Giessler and sculptor Arno Breker. They travel by car and on foot and visit Eglise de La Madeleine (Pl. de la Madeleine, 75008 Paris, France). French Gendarmes salute the motorcade as it continues down the street. The motorcade circles the Arc de Triomphe. Close up of some damage to the Arc de Triomphe. Motorcade passes The Obelisque at Place de la Concorde. Hitler and Speer visit the Trocadero and view the Eiffel Tower.
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