Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in and around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The caves at Taverny where the ball bearing industry sought refuge during the bombings. Workers inside the caves transformed into modern factories. Military jeeps parked at the factories. Soldiers talk to civilians. Workers operate machinery. A man emerges from within a creeper covered cave.
Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in and around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Villacoublay airfield and aircraft factories, a major airfield for the Luftwaffe, important flight training school and a site for immense aircraft shops. The damaged airfield after six daylight attacks by the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Bomb damaged hangars and wrecked German aircraft. Allied officers survey the damage. Damaged structures and buildings. Officers in military jeeps survey the airfield. Collapsed structures and rubble on the ground. Debris strewn all around. Wrecked Luftwaffe aircraft.
Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Reims locomotive repair shops attacked by the U.S. Eghth Air Force in May-June 1944. Allied soldiers and workers on tracks inside the repair shops. Damaged locomotives. Wrecked turntables and repair installations lie partially buried in debris. Men near an overturned locomotive on tracks. They survey the damage. Damaged equipment and material.
Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Porte Des Lilas subway station in Paris. Aircraft machinery repair equipment which the Germans had begun to install in the converted Porte des Lilas subway. Civilians and Allied soldiers at the station. The lit dome in the subway. Damaged railway tracks. Men and women Allied soldiers. French policemen among the crowd. A soldier holds a little girl. Civilians in a line.
Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over areas around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Orly Airfield near Paris attacked by the U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers. Damaged runways and dispersed areas at the airfield. Bomb craters, 30 feet in diameter. Wrecked gigantic dirigible hangars and installations. Collapsed roofs and fire-twisted steel skeletons. Large erect structures. Allied soldiers amidst the ruins. Officers survey the damage.
A huge aircraft graveyard at Gennevilliers towards the end of World War II. Thousansd of wrecked aircraft dumped at the graveyard. Wrecked German, French, American and British aircraft downed in the Paris vicinity. The aircraft stripped of engines, propellers, instruments and ball bearings. French children prowl among the wreckage and pluck aircraft parts to keep as souvenirs.
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