Invasion of France by Germany during World War II. German Army trucks pass over a bridge near damaged canals and locks on a river. Large pieces of rubble line the side of the bridge. Families evacuate from the town during German occupation, using horse-drawn wagons, and bicycles to carry their belongings. A car being used as a powerless conveyance, with men pushing it. Inside a mother and baby can be seen. The car is filled inside and out with bedding and other articles strapped to the roof. Catholic nuns leaving along with numerous French people walking and using bicycles to help carry belongings. A mother with two girls, pushing a baby cart holding belongings. A team of four horses pulling a large wagon loaded with people and belongings. A woman in the wagon is crying. Evacuees pause at side of road, as woman drinks from a bottle.
Comite Francais d'Assistance aux refugees in France after annexation of Austria by Germany prior to World War II. Relief being given to Austrian refugees in the form of cash. The refugees sign receipts. They wait in a lobby and show papers to officials of the committee. A meeting of the committee's council shows former commanding officer of the Republican Guards Colonel Duriex, President of the Committee Albert Levy, Managing Director of the Committee Gaston Kahn and the Secretary General Raymond Raoul Lambert. The committee discusses the problem of Jewish settlement in the world over a map.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight Eisenhower in U.S. 2nd Infantry Division area in France during World War II. U.S. officers arrive in jeeps at 2nd Infantry Division area. General Eisenhower and U.S. Army General Omar Bradley talk with Commander of U.S. 2nd Infantry Division Major General Walter M. Robertson and other officers of the 2nd Infantry Division. A jeep pulls up. General Eisenhower speaks to his second cousin, Sergeant G. C. Etherington of Abilene, Kansas, and of the Chemical Warfare Section. General Eisenhower's jeep pulls up.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight Eisenhower in U.S. 2nd Infantry Division area in France during World War II. U.S. officers arrive in jeeps at 2nd Infantry Division area. General Eisenhower and U.S. Army General Omar Bradley talk with Commander of U.S. 2nd Infantry Division Major General Walter M. Robertson and other officers of the 2nd Infantry Division. A jeep pulls up.
French pilots fly American built Curtiss Hawk airplanes in France early in World War II. French pilots board U.S. built airplanes to combat German aircraft. Formations of French Curtiss Hawks in flight. A German Dornier Do-17 bomber descending in normal flight. French fighters in the area. Downed German He-111 bomber near front lines is inspected. Frenchmen eat lunch using part of wrecked German bomber as a table. Holes on the damaged German aircraft. The Imperial German Eagle insignia is on the fuselage of the wrecked airplane (with no swastikas). But swastikas appear on the empennage. A triangle with 87 inscribed in it appears on the fuselage, indicating that 87 octane fuel should be used.
Developments in the field of aviation in France. An early model airplane taxis on a field. Trees in the background.
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