U.S. troops advance towards Cherence Le Roussel. SOldiers fire at the enemy. A soldier scouts for enemy soldiers through binoculars. Smoke from artillery fire. Explosions across the terrain. Soldiers stand on a camouflaged tank. Barrel of a tank jutting out of the bushes. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Soldiers march on the road and through fields. A sign board for 'Cherence Le Roussel' amid ruins and destroyed buildings. (World War II period).
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.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) wounded soldiers being assisted by Red Cross and medical corpsmen during World War 1. U.S. soldiers gathered around a number of wounded lying on the ground on stretchers. A senior Red Cross worker, using a cane, makes the rounds, stopping to visit with the wounded soldiers. Several medical corpsmen, wearing red cross arm bands, accompany him. He gives a cigarette to one soldier and converses with him. He bends over another wounded soldier, holding what appears to be gum and such, in his hand. He chats with the soldier. Medics carry wounded on stretchers to a tree line, where a sign identifies a Red Cross Post. A medic unwraps first aid supplies from a box. The medics bandage the arm of a wounded soldier. Closeup of the wounded soldier. They give him a cigarette. Closeup of him smiling and smoking.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh leaves Paris after his trans-Atlantic flight. The USS Memphis arrives to receive him. The U.S. flag on the ship. 'Memphis' written on the ship side. Sailors on the deck. A boat approaches the ship. Sailors standing on the smoke stacks and on deck await his arrival. They watch as Lindbergh boards the ship. The sailors salute as he climbs aboard. They greet and congratulate Lindbergh.
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