Allied invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon) during World War 2. Equipment on Red beach in southern France and ships in the background. Sailors on the beach send a blinker signal. A landing craft approaches the beach. A gun emplacement on the beach. Another landing craft approaches the beach and its ramp being lowered. Vehicles unload from the craft. A DUKW (amphibious vehicle) arrives on the beach. Vehicles being unloaded from a landing craft as a man signals on the beach.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Corsican women and soldiers outside a dispensary at Alto Air Base in Corsica, France. A young girl wearing a hat outside the dispensary. U.S. Army trucks and jeeps on a road towards Bologne, Italy.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Armorers and ground crew work on a U.S. Army Air Forces A-26 Invader aircraft at a field in France. Men work on the nose section of the aircraft. Aircraft in formation flight over the field. An A-26 Invader aircraft taxis along the field.
Allied bombers drop bombs near Caen, France during World War II. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers of the United States Eighth Air Force in flight, passing over surface vessels bound for France six days after D-day. Aerial view of a French city, bombed by another group. Pillar of smoke rises up from the bombed city. Moving engine propeller of a bomber. small fragmentation and incendiary bombs are released over French airfield and railroad bridges outside Caen. Aerial view of Norman countryside. Craters from bombs are seen in aerial view.
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.
Officials arrive for the Paris Peace Conference in Paris, France. Officers in uniforms pose for a photograph. United States Navy Admiral Benson and United State Ambassador to France Henry C. White leave the Hotel Crillon building (10 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France). They read the document in hand. Henry C. White speaks with the officials. French Premier Georges Clemenceau and Marshal Ferdinand Foch get inside a car. View of the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France) with flags in the foreground. People walking in the street.
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