Captured Belgium troops crowd both sides of road as German convoy accepts their surrender early in World War II. Military officials talking in front of a building as part of surrender negotiations. German soldiers and civilians talking in Dunkirk. Belgium prisoners of war cheerfully smile and wave as they leave. Animated map demonstrates how the German forces closed in on British and French forces at Dunkirk. British troops in front of a blockade. A British soldier sets off a bomb. Smoke rises from bomb explosion at Dunkirk.
Wrecked British ships in the English Channel after the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. Flag of Nazi Germany at Dunkirk Beach. Corpses in water as waves wash onto beach.
U.S. and French troops parade in liberated Cherbourg on Bastille Day. The troops and civilians gathered in a city square. Men, women and children watch. Soldiers and civilians hold flags. The US, French Navy and French Forces of the Interior (FFI) march alongside. The band plays. People watch from their homes. General Charles De Gaulle present at the celebration. 'Vive De Gaulle' on a banner. The square is renamed 'Place General De Gaulle.' Soldiers and policemen salute. Children hold flowers. People sing and dance in the square. Musicians play their instruments. (World War II period).
Allied troops soon after D-Day landings at Normandy in World War 2. View of Cherbourg town destroyed by the Germans. A soldier near a wall. The destroyed docks. A soldier on a destroyed inland bridge. French women and a man welcome the Allied troops with bouquets on a destroyed bridge. Hundreds of German officers and soldiers taken prisoners marched on the street. A wounded prisoner in a wheel barrow.
Allied troops in Cherbourg after the Normandy Landings on D-Day in World War 2. A former German Headquarters in the town. A portrait of the German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. A U.S. soldier and MP (Military Police) point towards the portrait. The soldiers use it as a pin board, throwing darts at it.
Group of civilians manning a water pump in street. French firemen put up ladders against a building which was hit by shell during World War 2. Firemen climb up the building and direct water from a hose into the building.
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