U.S. Army 29th Infantry Division soldiers stand in smoke-filled streets of Isigny-sur-Mer, France, during its liberation from Nazi German occupation, three days after the Allied invasion of France in World War 2. Two American soldiers stand at a stone monument in Place Gambetta, at Rue Émile Demagny. View of the damaged Hotel de France in the town, and U.S. soldiers crouched under its sign, looking upward and likely monitoring for German snipers. Next scene shows a U.S. Army soldier standing guard with his rifle pointed at four captured German soldiers and one German officer. The prisoners of war are a mix of young soldiers and old. With sullen, exhausted expressions the German soldiers lean and sit against the building of the Cafe du Port. A seated German soldier has a bandage wrapped around one foot. Close-up view of an old French sign above the head of the U.S. soldier, dated 1867, that warns residents not to throw garbage into the port waters. A French woman wrapped in a shawl leans close toward a seated U.S. soldier while she speaks to him and points. A very elderly French woman, using a cane, and wearing traditional clothing of the region, walks past a group of American soldiers over top of rubble from bombing. A group of U.S. soldiers on patrol walks away from camera position toward other streets of the town.
French military police with motorcycles stand near a crowd of French civilians outside a church in France near the end of World War 2. U.S. Army personnel with handheld cameras take pictures of services. Parisian girl standing with a U.S. Army soldier. Military Police lined up in front of the cathedral entrance. Bishops emerge from the church. General de Gaulle leaves the church in a motorcade. French car with a military official seated inside and four stars on the pIate. French soldiers as they give rifle salutes. Church cleric talking to a French officer. Gendarmes standing among civilians and American officer standing with a WAC (Women's Army Corps) officer. British guards lined up as people emerge from the church. Guard of Honor in the fore ground. Elderly French woman and man leave the church. GIs enters the church. Russian Bishop emerges from the church and enters car. French civilians around the church including children and a young boy on the shoulders of a man.
Two trucks and a bus full of liberated French prisoners drive down an avenue in Paris. A large Parisian crowd including young girls watch their arrival. People wave out to welcome the prisoners as they wave back. Sign on bus stating 'Repatriated Prisoners'. Shots of French prisoners as a civilian offers them cigarettes. A Parisian volunteer nurse. Trucks of prisoners pull up before a building. A liberated Algerian prisoner drinks from a bottle of wine. View of a French soldier. (World War II period).
A large crowd including elderly women welcomes the liberated French prisoners to France. Truck of liberated French prisoners arrives amidst the waiting civilians. French girls wave to disembarking prisoners as the smiling prisoners wave back. Young girls hug and kiss the prisoners.Civilians cheer and applaud their return. Little girls wave in the crowd. Prisoners eat bread and drink from wine bottle. A prisoner holds the French flag. Liberated Senegalese prisoners. (World War II period).
American U.S. Army officers and WAC (Women Army Corps) officers walk up to the Notre Dame Cathedral (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France) in Paris during World War II. A bus load of U.S. Army soldiers arrive and enter the Cathedral. Military Police (MP) officers march and line up outside the church. Civilians entering the church. French officers salute MPs on their way inside. Army personnel and civilians leave church. A USO (United Service Organizations) worker outside the church. MPs march away from the cathedral.
Views of numerous gargoyles, grotesques, and chimeras on the Notre Dame Cathedral (Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris). The city of Paris can be seen in the background. U.S. military personnel leave the church as French honor guards line up outside. Gendarmes around the church as MPs get ready to march. (World War II period)
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