Animated map showing American 3rd Army advance toward St. Mihiel, France, during World War 2. Advance elements of General Patton's U.S. 3rd Army cross Meuse River in a French civilian's barge and proceed through town of St. Mihiel. A U.S. Army combat photographer is seen taking pictures at bank of river. U.S. Infantrymen make their way through virtually deserted town of St Mihiel. U.S. field artillery fire on German positions along the Meuse. U.S. infantrymen lying prone beside a large barn.US soldier photographing others as they rest on a sidewalk.Two U.S. soldiers running up and over a wooden bridge.American forces driven back by heavy German resistance and then resume advance after U.S. artillery fire neutralizes defending German forces. However, still under heavy fire, American infantrymen carry small boats to cross the Moselle River. U.S. troops paddle across the river in a boat at Dornot, France, September 1944. Railroad pedestrian crossover bridge visible. (Note: Unit making the river crossing was 5th Division, 11th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E and F company.Lieutenant Colonel Kelly B, Lemmon Jr. was battalion commander.)
82nd Airborne Division soldiers advance along a corridor beside the wall of an elevated cemetery in Saint- Marcouf, France during World War 2. They rest beside a wall. Local residents come their way. Rubble of destroyed buildings in the background. The French residents greet and converse with the American soldiers. Two Frenchmen point in a direction up and away. Remains of bombed out rural buildings. Soldier seen near a religious statue that still stands in rubble at front of a destroyed house. As the American troops proceed, they pass a sign reading, "Saint-Marcouf." A bombed out building. A triangular sign reading,"Touring-Club de France," with "Dunlop" written below it. View, from beside a wheeled cart, of troopers resting, in front of a wall in the relatively unscathed town center of Saint-Marcouf. 82nd Airborne patch clearly seen on left shoulder of some troopers. American trooper stooped down to speak with small French boy and girl in front of a house in town. Closeup of the little girl. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
American airmen prepare a biplane aircraft for take off in France during World War I. Map of St. Mihiel, France. Biplanes lined up on a field. Pilots stand near the biplanes. They get into the planes and start the engines. The biplanes taxi and take off. The biplanes in flight.
Troops of U.S. 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry Regiment in Pont Bellenger, France during World War II. U.S. infantrymen on the road to Vire, France. A wrecked U.S. recon car. U.S. soldiers killed by a German land mine. German soldiers killed by the same mine. A dead driver and a passenger in a car.
Mine detonation activities in Cherbourg, France during World War II. United States officer points at mine control cables outside a building in Cherbourg, France. Men aboard the mine pelorus. Man pulls a cable. Flag on a paravane in water. An electrically controlled mine explodes in harbor. A wrecked L' Ouste fort with a tower on the top. Mines explode as a pillar of water and smoke rises up.
German rocket launching platforms sweep in Cherbourg, France during World War II. A German rocket launching platform in Cherbourg, France. Wooden planks at an incomplete rocket launching platform. Men make bags move down a ramp. Men save unused iron and concrete at the rocket launching platform. American military truck and vehicles at the rocket launching platform.
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