36th Division forces establish beachhead on Green Beach. Three bulldozers level beach. Naval Beach Patrol on duty in marked off beach sector. One man sends message over telegraph key while smoking a pipe. Sign on beach reads 'Beach CP Shore Party' One bulldozer pulls stalled jeep out of water. Barrage balloons float in sky over ships. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) U.S. 989 at beach.
U.S. Troops formally depart from France. Brief ceremonies mark the closing of U.S. Military Command Headquarters at Saint Germain-En-Lay in France. 26 Thousand NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Troops leave France by order of French President De Gaulle. U.S. and French Flags are lowered together.
Exiled members of the Habsburg Dynasty in Southern France. Pretender to Austrian throne Archduke Otto of Habsburg enters a car outside hotel Villa D'Iris, Saint Jean de Luz, France. (16 Rue de Sainte-Barbe, 64500 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) View of the hotel Villa D'Iris. Sign hanging outside the villa shows the office address of the Hotel Manager at 36 Rue Gambetta, Saint Jean de Luz. A white sheet is hanging on the balcony railing of the villa. Former Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma (wife of the late Emperor Charles I of Austria), enters a different car outside the hotel Villa D'Iris. She is accompanied by two women, likely two of her daughters.
View of a wrecked and ruined Saint Lo town after the allied bombings of World War II. Damaged buildings of the town. Two United States soldiers of the 60th Engineer Combat Battalion, 35th infantry division enter the block house.
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.
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) P-47 Thunderbolts, aka "jugs," fly low over an airfield in France. Some of the P-47s display yellow cowlings and blue and red striped tails. Others display red cowlings. The aircraft fly over in flights of 4 aircraft each, and break for landings. However, they do not land, but either buzz low over the runway, or make touch and go landings.
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