A newly devised non-skid tire is shown in France, 1934. The tire is shown up close and a machine is seen cutting grooves in the tire to aid with traction in all weather conditions. The non-skid tires tested on wet streets. Traffic on the streets. A woman is seen pushing a baby pram in front of a moving vehicle on rainy, wet streets. The car with older tires skids in the rain and hits the woman and baby carriage. Narrator indicates that it was a fatal accident.
German-occupied France. Officers gathered in a hall. Nazi flags on the walls. LVF (Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism ) sign in the background. Flags in the hall. A ceremony takes place. A speaker on the stage. Women volunteers in view.
American troops welcomed in village, by Nuns and children, and in Paris, France, in August, 1944 during liberation of Paris. December 16, 1944, German counterattack causes American casualties. Dead and wounded shown being picked up on stretchers. American troops advancing across fields. Tanks and burning buildings. Americans fight in streets of town and from trenches, with snow on ground. Chaplain prays over body of fallen American soldier. More views of U.S. wounded on stretchers. German officers led by General Manteuffel planning actions. German home front civilian guards (Volkssturm national militia) seen on parade carrying rifles and Panzerfaust, dressed in civilian clothing. German Tiger II tanks ("King Tiger") of s.Pz.Abt.503 parade in a training area. German SS troops advance during the Battle of the Bulge. German V1 Flying bomb "buzz bomb" shown in flight. Smoke rises from buzz bomb strike on town. (World War II period).
Brigadier General Benjamin D Foulois, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, seen together with a group of United States Army Air Service officers in France during World War I. They look at DH-4 aircraft. Group of Air Service officers pose for photographs. They play slapstick jokes on each other as they pose. Plane in the background. They talk and laugh during group photograph. A still photograph of a group of early United States Navy pilots.
The United States enters World War I. A convoy of trucks loaded with American Expeditionary Forces moves to the war front in France. Soldiers on foot advance to the battle field. Soldiers fire guns at the enemy position. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Medics in France during World War I. Armored cars lined up. Men work on the cars. French Army officers pose for a photograph as some sit and others stand behind them. A large group of nurses pose for a picture. A nurse with a coat over her shoulders. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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