German Schutzstaffel (SS) Hitler Youth advance near Bayeux in France during World War II. German soldiers advance supported by tanks. Soldiers on camouflaged tanks. German Panzer IV tanks and armored vehicles advance past immobilized Allied tanks. German tanks and infantry move pass abandoned Allied tanks and equipment. German troops fire small arms. Soldiers move towards and attack a French village. Street fighting in the village. Soldiers fire machine guns amidst ruins. Bomb damaged buildings. Smoke due to explosions.
German soldiers and French civilians in occupied France during World War II. German officers and soldiers with French civilians in a French town. German soldiers distribute food to French civilians. People stand in line for food. Elderly men, women and children take food. Food distributed from trucks and vans. French civilians in tents. Soldiers serve bread loaves over a counter. Bread on the counters. Relief workers serve distribute food. Civilians including children in lines. French POWs (Prisoners of War) at work. They drill, break stones and do construction work. German troops gathered to welcome German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. Hitler arrives, gives a Nazi salute and greets the troops. The soldiers cheer as he waves to them.
Germans advance during the Battle of France in World War II. German officers and soldiers look on as infantry, artillery, tanks and other military vehicles move across a pontoon bridge. German Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch talks to officers. Soldiers in the pontoons and rafts. French prisoners wearing rain coats. Panzer division troops and tanks advance on a road through fields.
Ferry boats in Loire River, France. French civilians operate small ferry boat between Orleans and St. Marcean. Passengers include a German prisoner, wounded Frenchmen, a U.S. soldier and French civilians. A man paddles the boat. Civilians wait on the river bank. Men holding a stretcher and a cycle. The boat arrives, passengers get off. The civilians watch as the soldiers come onto the bank. French policemen accompany a prisoner. Civilians take the stretcher aboard the ferry to help a wounded soldier. A man paddles the ferry. (World War II period).
Ferry boats in Loire River, France. French civilians operate small ferry boat between Orleans and St. Marcean. Civilians wait on either banks. A ferry arrives with passengers. Allied soldiers, French civilians with cycles, and a medic get off the ferry. Men help the women up the step bank. Civilians with cycles board the waiting ferry. (World War II period).
The Allies advance after amphibious landings in France during World War II. Allied tanks blast a German pillbox. Nazi gun crews surrender. A nazi soldier with a white flag. The prisoners marched by the Allied soldiers. Allied soldiers search German prisoners and confiscate their belongings. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) soldiers greet and talk to Allied soldiers. The men with the FFI sleeve patches. Allies advance further inland. Citizens of the town of Frejus come out to welcome the Allied troops. They greet and cheer the soldiers. Soldiers on tanks greet the civilians.
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