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A Rugby match and an American football game being played, successively, in France during World War II

A Rugby match in France at the end of World War 2 in Europe. Opens as players come out of a huddle and kick off. Play proceeds. Closeup of Allied military officers in front row seats of a huge stadium filled with spectators. Commercial advertisements are posted in French all along the stadium roof facia. Views alternating between play on the field and spectators cheering in the stands. Complete change U.S. soldiers playing and American football game. closeup of a player, wearing shoulder pads, helping a teammate with his jersey. Another player wearing a protective helmet. View of the football players starting the game with a kickoff. The stadium appears to have mostly U.S. military spectators (although some French civilians are seen standing in the stands at end of the film). Glimpse of an American woman in military uniform cheering in the stands. Views of the game in progress. Near the end, one of the players kicks a field goal.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: French
Clip: 65675067183
French Socialist Party officials address a gathering during a political meeting in France.

A political meeting in France during World War II. A sign outside a building reads 'Parti Socialiste SFIO'. A French Socialist Party official addresses a gathering during the political meeting. Several broadcast microphones are present. Another official addresses the gathering. People at desks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: French
Clip: 65675067184
A river no longer navigable in France due to a bombed out bridge during World War II. The French repair the bridge

Many commercial barges tied up next to one another along banks of a river blocked by a destroyed bridge in France during World War 2. Numerous tug boats also tied up along the river bank. View from one bank of the remains of the bridge completely blocking river traffic. A man rows a small boat from the near shore. Camera pans over the wreckage. Next workers are seen repairing the bridge. Water flows rapidly through an open section of new substructure. A barge loaded with men and steam driven equipment is on the up-river side of the bridge. Black smoke issues from burning coal or oil powering the barge. A single new walkway spans above the bridge opening. Next is a closeup of the work barge with steam rising from it. A different section of the bridge structure is seen next, with a gang of workmen on new bridge decking and others working from below on a barge. Closeup of workers installing the bridge decking. One is cutting excess length of a board, with a hand saw. Several men looking over the edge of the bridge deck at water flowing through spillways underneath it. Closeup of a diver in complete diving gear, including a metal helmet, working at the base of the bridge. Man climbing a ladder from a steel section of bridge. Worker using an Oxy-Acetylene Cutting Torch to remove a damaged section of steel. Tugboats plying the river. Local citizens watching the tugboats from atop a downstream bridge. as boat traffic resumes with the upstream bridge repaired. Closeup of tugboat passing under the bridge. Glimpse of tugboat under a graceful undamaged bridge. Closeup of a bulk carrier powered barge passing a bridge filled with spectators. A clamshell bucket grabbing material from the barge and raising it to load it somewhere.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067185
French General Charles de Gaulle decorates the Free French troops in France during World War II.

The Free French troops being decorated in France during World War II. A building. French General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle gets off a car. People at desks in a hall. The General decorates the Free French troops.

Date: 1944
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067186
Troops assemble for a presentation ceremony and John Ernest Dahlquist decorates soldiers with Bronze Star Medals in France.

Japanese American Division citations in France during World War II. United States Army General John Ernest Dahlquist presents citations to 442nd Infantry Regiment Combat team. Troops salute and stand at attention. The troops stand holding the American flag. They march and assemble for the presentation ceremony. The soldiers are decorated with Bronze Star Medals.

Date: 1944, November 11
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068624
Surveyors and engineers at work during the construction of an airstrip in France.

Construction of an airstrip in France during World War II. Three sappers walk on a grassy area. They look for buried mines. The sappers dig out mines from the ground. Surveyors at work on the field. Two surveyors show equipment. Two engineers signal to the two surveyors. An engineer at transit signaling. A bulldozer pushes a huge pile of dirt on the field. Two guards and a group in the background. A scraper on the field. A soldier sitting at the back door of a vehicle talks with another standing beside him. The bulldozer and heavy equipment on the airstrip. The bulldozer and the scraper turn and go down the field. Insignia of the United States. Different views of the equipment on the field. An aircraft is towed and is taken to the airstrip.

Date: 1944, June 8
Duration: 5 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068760