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Radios confiscated by Nazi German forces are returned to the civilians of Bayeux, Normandy.

August 1944: Civilians outside the Civil Affairs Committee building in Bayeux, Normandy. A large crowd waits outside the building. Men and women lined up. Radios confiscated by the Nazi German forces are returned to the civilians. Men and women walk out the building with their radio sets in boxes. Men and children on the street as military vehicles pass by.

Date: 1945
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020661
U.S. troops advance towards Cherence Le Roussel.

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).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020666
French and U.S. troops celebrate Bastille Day in liberated Cherbourg.

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).

Date: 1944, July 14
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020671
Allied troops in Cherbourg, and German prisoners, after the D-Day Normandy landings in World War II

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.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020904
U.S. soldiers throw darts at Adolf Hitler portrait in Cherbourg after the D-Day invasion of Europe in World War II

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.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020905
United States soldiers fight enemy around Saint Lo after D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II.

U.S. troops battle enemy in Saint Lo, Normandy during World War II. Soldiers fire rifles and machine guns through hedge. Soldiers advance near hedge cautiously. Wounded soldier receives first aid behind hedge. A soldier begins to dig foxhole.

Date: 1944
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075136