French troops operating in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, France, during World War 2. Burning buildings in village. The spire of a church. Smoke rising from the burnt areas. A man directs several boys to help fight the fire. Village residents fighting fires with buckets of water. Colonial North African infantry of the French 1st Army accompanied by an M4 Sherman tank on street outside gated official-looking building. They enter through gates cautiously. Elsewhere, a local Frenchman pours glasses of white wine for American soldiers sitting in a jeep. Scene shifts to the French troops, along with a cameraman, who are sheltering under sniper fire, near building. Their M4 tank (named "Marne") also provides some cover. Momentary glimpse of German soldiers taken prisoner.
French 1st Army troops in Colmar, France, during World War 2. Two French officers looking at a map spread on the front part of a jeep. A gun on the jeep. French soldiers lying on the ground and looking through binoculars. A soldier with a gun beside him. Soldiers with automatic rifles lying on the ground and firing. The soldiers among bushes with the guns. The soldiers getting up and running. They lie on the ground. Grenades explode. The soldiers advance forward. A French soldier hurls a grenade and lies on the ground. A phosphorous grenade bursts. The soldiers running through the smoke. The soldiers on the ground.
Troops of the 1st French Army assemble in a courtyard in Colmar, France, during World War 2. They proceed out on patrols past camouflaged tanks. A dead German soldier on the ground. A halftrack passes carrying French troops, one holding his hand up in a "V" for victory. Debris from battle is seen everywhere.
French troops in Colmar, France during World War II. Two French officers at an observation post. Commander of the French II Corps General Edgard de Larminat, holding a stick in his hand, with Commanding General of II French Corps General de Montsabert who holds a newspaper in his hand. An officer comes with binoculars. General Larminat takes the paper and looks at it. Two officers near General de Montsabert. General Larminat looks through binoculars. The Generals converse.
American soldiers of th 90th Infantry Divisionat, at the fortress of Guentrange (Fort Obergentringen) in Thionville, France, during World War 2. The town of Thionville. A cluster of buildings in the town. Smoke rising from certain areas in the town. High walls of the main barracks of the fortress south of the Maginot Line in Thionville, built by the Germans when they occupied Lorraine after 1871. An iron palisade in front of the main barracks of the fortress. Trees near the iron fence. People walk along a pathway beside the fence. American soldiers at the fortress. A couple of soldiers using a field telephone. The soldiers sit outside the entrance of the fortress and clean rifles. Krupp 105 mm guns at the fortress.
An Anglo-American Nazi internment camp in Vittel, France. The Grand Hotel in Vittel which was an internment camp by occupying German forces. The hotel building with a lawn in front. A barbed wire fencing around the hotel. Allied flags on a small bridge in the camp. Internees walking on the bridge. Women looking through the fence in the camp. Men and women seated and standing behind the wire fence. Two American soldiers outside the fence. Men and women smiling. Children among the group. A woman with Punch and Judy dolls in her hands. Other women behind her. A few men and women with children near the bridge. (World War II period).
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