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United States 36th Division troops on tanks and armored vehicles pass over a reconstructed bridge in Besancon, France (WW2)

United States 36th Division troops in Besancon, France during World War II. A convoy of United States 36th Division moves on the streets of Besancon. The troops march on foot. Tanks, trucks and armored vehicles pass over a reconstructed bridge. French civilians standing at a roadside watch the movement.

Date: 1944, September 8
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044009
United States 3rd Infantry Division troops clear out debris from a street in Besancon, France (WW2)

United States 3rd Infantry Division troops in Besancon, France during World War II. Explosions on the streets in Besancon. Troops open a box of TNT(trinitrotoluene). They place the chemical explosive on a wooden platform. The troops clear out the debris on the street. An ambulance drives past. Bulldozers lift heavy metal. An army vehicle parked on a road. An explosion in the background.

Date: 1944, September 8
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044010
United States soldiers construct a bridge across the Moselle River in Arnaville, France.

United States soldiers in Arnaville, France during World War II. The soldiers construct a bridge across the Moselle River in heavy rain. A group of United States engineers at work. A soldier uses an acetylene torch on a section of the bridge.

Date: 1944, October 10
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044491
United States and British officers receive the Legion of Merit at SHAEF in Paris, France.

The presentation of the Legion of Merit at SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) in Paris, France during World War II. United States Colonel Krik Lawton and British Lieutenant George Warden receive the Legion of Merit awards from U.S. Army Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, Director of Public Relations. British and United States officers stand in a line during the presentation. Buildings in the background.

Date: 1944, December 10
Duration: 7 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044497
German General Erich Elster surrenders 20,000 troops and equipment to General RC Macon at Beaugency, France (WW2)

20,000 German soldiers surrender to Allied forces in France during World War II. German General Erich Elster surrenders himself and 20,000 troops to Major General Robert C Macon of the U.S. Ninth Army and to Major General OP Weyland, Commanding General of the XIX Tactical Air Command, on September 16. The formal surrender took place at the Beaugency Bridge on the Loire River. Long columns of Germans file into the city and lay down their arms. Numbers of items like trucks, civilian carts, horses, weapons and bicycle surrendered. View of surrendered rifles, pistols, machine guns, tucks and bicycles. 19360 Prisoners of War come down. View of Prisoners of War Camp and surrendered equipment.

Date: 1944, September 16
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044538
Allied air attack and German defense in the city of Caen during the Invasion of Normandy, France in World War 2.

German newsreel about the Invasion of Normandy region of France in World War 2. English narration overlaid on the newsreel by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. A German soldier looks through binoculars. Artillery units move forward. North American bomber flies over. German Anti Aircraft batteries in action. Bombers drop bombs. Wreckage in the city of Caen. German pursuit planes fly to break U.S. plane formation. Ruins in the city following bombing by Allied air forces. French refugee civilians leaving the bombed city. German divisions of tanks and mobile artillery underway. Allied armed divisions air troopers and paratroopers captured. U.S. Sherman tanks knocked out. Bullet holes in the tanks. German troops advance. Germans soldiers fire rifles, machine guns and rockets.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 5 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046325