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5 days after D-Day, gliders and more American forces arriving in Normandy region and 9th Division troops advancing to front

Allied gliders in flight in France during World War II 5 days after D-Day. Gliders land, and thereafter are concealed among trees. U.S. Army 9th Division soldiers march forward toward the battle front in France.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 10
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038183
German ammunition trucks and trains explode when strafed by United States fighter planes operating on D-Day in World War 2

Slate titled "Fighter kills on D-Day". Shows strafing of German-operated ammunition trucks on highways of France by United States fighter planes during the D-Day invasion of France in World War II. Gun camera footage from pilot point of view shows U.S. Army Air Force fighter planes in very low approaches as they strafe railroad trains, trucks, marshaling yards, and buildings. Some strafing attacks result in explosion of targets. Smoke rises up in the sky.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040507
Johannes Hoffman, Prime Minister of the Saar and Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister, in Franco-Saar negotiations

Post-World War II, Franco-Saar negotiations, in 1952. Participants stroll on grounds of a Chateau in France. Principals seen include Johannes Hoffman, Prime Minister of the Saar and Georges Bidault, Foreign Minister of France. (Note: these negotiations were unsuccessful, at the time.)

Location: France
Date: 1952
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041188
Various views of Paris under German occupation in World War II

Momentary glimpse of French Regimental flag held by French collaborator militia German officers and civilians at the Longchamps racetrack in Paris, France. German officers examine damaged areas of the city. Closeup of a heavy concrete structure with writing on it reading: "St. Pierre des Corps" and "Entree de La Gare" (This is the severely damaged entrance to a central train station of the city.) Heavy smoke seen rising from a fire in the background. Somewhat blurred views from a vehicle driving through portions of Paris. One apartment building displays a sign reading "Soldatenheim" (Soldiers' Home). Major buildings displaying Nazi Swastika flags. View from overhead of German army truck, covered in foliage camouflage, driving along a boulevard. Posters on a wall lamenting France's suffering. Parisians going about their ordinary activities, walking in a town traffic circle. View from close overhead of another German army truck covered in foliage camouflage with soldiers riding on its rear. Another view of the posters on the wall.

Location: France
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041921
Montage of scenes related to role of 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and 9th Troop Carrier Command before D-day, World War II

U.S. soldiers wade ashore at Omaha Fox Green Beach on D-Day, from landing craft of USS Samuel Chase (APA 25). during the Invasion of France. Preparations for invasion underway in an idyllic village in England, United Kingdom on June 5, 1944. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 aircraft towing a Waco CG-4 glider over shelters made of wooden shipping containers. "Shanty Town" written atop one tall structure. Glider being pulled out a shipping container. Soldiers moving into empty shipping container. Glimpse of their homemade barrack. Soldiers eating a meal inside a shipping container shelter. Soldiers at barber shop. German defenses of the Atlantic Wall on the French coast. German Army gun crews drilling. German rail gun. Animated map of German fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. Allied officers, including U.S. Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force and British Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, Commander, 2nd Tactical Air Force, in D-day planning. Airborne troops board buses and arrive at restricted airfields. Troops playing musical instruments in jazz band; exercising on field; and playing volleyball. Paratroopers reading mail. Airmen painting invasion stripes for D-day on C-47 aircraft. French francs issued to paratroopers. Soldiers sharpen knives and bayonets. Chaplains conduct religious services. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting 101st Airborne troopers. Airborne Pathfinders. Paratroopers march to C-47s, and put on parachute packs. Troopers of the 101st Airborne, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Headquarters Company Demolition Section ("Filthy 13") in their Mohawk Indian haircuts. Clarence Ware puts war paint on Charles Plaudo, using still-wet paint from their C-47's D-day stripes. Heavily laden paratrooper help one another board airplanes. Pathfinder C-47s taking off at dusk, followed by all others, on June 5, 1944. formations of C-47s. Closeup of several planes. Paratroopers exiting C-47s. Formation of towed gliders. Gliders landing in field. Troops from gliders engaging in fire fights. Naval gun barrage.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 10 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045254
British and American C-47 tow planes and gliders during Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II

Aerial view of many USAAF Troop Carrier Command C-47 aircraft,together with gliders, parked on a field in England. The aircraft and gliders are all painted in D-Day stripes. Views on ground of C-47s taking off towing gliders behind. Formation of C-47s and gliders overhead. Views from an aircraft in a formation. Below, the Portland Bill lighthouse & directional beacon (code-named Flatbush) is seen as the formation departs the English coast. (Note: film view of Portland Bill light is reversed. Roundabout should appear to right of the lighthouse.) Closeup of a glider in the formation. View from a ship, in the English Channel, as an airplane crashes and explodes on the French coast. Aerial view of landing craft on the Normandy beach, as the formation passes overhead. View of French fields flooded by the Germans. Aerial view of parachutes from U.S. Army paratroopers who had dropped into France the night before (June 5th), but no sign of the troops themselves. Masses of gliders on the ground. View inside a glider as it cuts loose from its C-47 tow plane. View from ground as gliders cut loose and maneuver for landing. View of a glider that crashed into a German Headquarters building, and view of another landing in water. Allied gliders destroyed (some burning) and damaged by German gunfire and passive defenses (15 foot poles planted closely in landing zones). A German artillery piece concealed at the edge of a landing zone. American troops, from the gliders, marching into Saint Marcouf, France. Montage of Allied advances and gunfire. Road sign pointing to Sainte Marie-du Mont and Carentan. U.S. troops moving through French town of Sainte Marie-du Monte. U.S. troops riding in a captured German Ketenkrad tracked motorcycle.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045255
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