U.S. soldiers in France during World War II. A tank loaded with troops rolls through a town. Buildings along street sides. Truckloads of U.S. troops move past. A jeep passes on a road. U.S. infantrymen in trucks move across French fields. A U.S. tank rolls past. Traffic on a road comprising of American tanks, cars and a donkey cart ridden by an old man. Wreckage of vehicles along a side of the road.
U.S. ground crewmen standing outside a hangar in France. They rolll a De Havilland DH-4 airplane out of a camouflaged hangar. Three of them crouch under the left wing as they load bombs onto hooks under the wing. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Sea plane base activity in the European Theater during World War I. A U.S. Navy Curtiss HS-2L seaplane lands and taxis to beach on coast of France during the First World War. . Ground crew sets plank for the crew to step to the beach. Several Curtiss seaplanes parked on a ramp near hangars. Weather is raining. Sailors maneuver a seaplane into a parking place. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Operation "Rutter,"(aka Operation Jubilee) the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe, France, conducted by the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division and British Commandos plus some Inter-allied commandos, during World War 2. Map highlighting Dieppe. Low-flying British Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft attacking German positions. German gunners firing heavy field gun from a grove of trees. Batteries of German antiaircraft guns firing from positions in hillsides. Explosions close to the camera. Fortified German gunners firing quad 2 cm Flakvierling 38 antiaircraft gun. A German 8.8 cm Flak 18 antiaircraft gun in operation. Explosions on the beachhead. German soldiers at roadside, one with a hand grenade. Another huge explosion near the camera. View from inside fortified German position, as soldier fires MG42 machine gun. View through window of building as bomb or shell explodes close by. View of Allied beachhead in disarray as Allied raiders are taken prisoners of war. Several are ambulatory wounded and another is carried on a stretcher. A German Junkers Ju 88 bomber overhead, bombs an allied ship at the waterfront. Wounded Allied soldiers lying on the beach with knocked out Churchill tank and a burning landing craft behind them. Abandoned landing craft on the beach. A larger ship afire. Allied soldiers being gathered up by German soldiers. One gives a drink to an Allied soldier in a landing craft. Remnants of Allied forces being escorted as prisoners of war along a road with seaside Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours in the background. Some prisoners are barefoot. One is carried on a litter. Burning landing craft on the beach. Canadian soldiers march with hands raised. Views of damage to buildings in Dieppe, from bombing and shelling. Canadian prisoners of war being escorted by German guards through town. View from high point overlooking Dieppe, showing the town, with smoke rising in places, and the beach with Allied boats and equipment strewn on it.
German troops invade France during World War II. A German soldier sleeps in a room. Several British Expeditionary Force soldiers with arms raised, are marched into and through a building, followed by large numbers of French prisoners, all under German guard. The Allied prisoners are marched by German troops across a town square. Allied prisoners being marched along a road in wooded area. A German Pz.II tank stationed at the side of the road.
French citizens use every means at their disposal to evacuate a city ahead of German invasion. A man with a baby in a seat on his back, walking with his wife who pushes a baby carriage with belongings loaded on it. Another man and woman using baby carriages to carry children and belongings. Horses and wagons being used to carry evacuees. A horse-drawn milk wagon, with a completely destroyed rear tire, but still moving. Milk wagons carrying people. Automobiles overloaded with people and belongings. All manner of horse-drawn vehicles, automobiles, buses and trucks being used by evacuees. A woman using a wheelbarrow walking with another pushing a baby carriage. Numerous bicycles laden with belongings. A car pulling another car by a chain. (Adjacent clips from same reel are in Hauts-de-France region. This clip is likely in that region)
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