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News Event of 1958. Charles De Gaulle called upon to lead French Fifth Republic

General Charles De Gaulle steps from a car and walks through crowd of reporters. (In the wake of political upheaval, De Gaulle was named Premier-designate by President René Coty on May 31 and confirmed Premier by the National Assembly on June 1.) He makes his way to a podium and speaks. According to narrator, he declares a "vacation" from politics in France, while he prepares a new Constitution. He leaves the podium and hall. View of numerous reporters and photographers in the hall. Enthusiastic French people outside the hall, wave as De Gaulle passes standing in an open car. The sidewalks are mobbed with spectators as his motorcade passes. Citizens hold banners, including some referring to the Algerian problems. Confetti is thrown from overlooking apartment buildings in Paris.

Date: 1958, May 29
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047399
Wounded American soldiers being placed in ambulances during the 2nd Battle of the Somme during World War I

Wounded American soldiers on litters carried out from a building and placed into military ambulances, during the 2nd Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. German prisoners carrying wounded American soldiers into Ronssoy, France.

Date: 1918, September
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048394
Allied paratroopers in gliders continue airborne assault in daytime, on D-day, after initial airborne troop drop the night before, in World War II

Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Allied trucks and equipment move up from beachhead after D-Day. Half-tracks, armed with antiaircraft guns, move up from the beachhead. Back in England, gliders are readied for mission. A long line of Paratrooper medics wearing Red Cross Arm bands, board gliders. View from airplane flying over an airfield filled with C-47 tow planes, and gliders, all painted with invasion stripes. Closeup of Sergeant with British 6th Airborne Division showing Pegasus insignia on his sleeve. British paratroopers boarding a Hamilcar glider. U.S. paratroopers boarding gliders. View from above of Allied gliders being towed across the English Channel View from a ship in the invasion convoy, of tow planes and gliders overhead. View, from aircraft overhead, of invasion flotilla below. Distant view of Allied aircraft shot down by German antiaircraft fire, near the coast of Normandy and exploding in flames upon impact. View from the air of areas flooded by the Germans as a defense measure. Parachutes and gliders on the ground from earlier sorties. Gliders in this wave cut loose from tow planes and maneuver independently. Glimpses of Allied fighter planes moving fast and high above the scene. A glider splashing down in one of the flooded fields. Other fields, studded by the Germans, with poles 12-to 15 feet tall as defense against gliders. Gliders landing. Paratroopers leaving a Horsa glider, after landing.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 6 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048613
Soldiers fire artillery from behind sand bag mounds during Battle of Cantigny in World War I.

America's counter attack in World War I. United States Army soldiers on a field during Battle of Cantigny in France, World War I. Explosions occur and smoke rises. View of low slung horizontal razor wire in front of artillery emplacements. U.S. 1st Division soldiers fire artillery from behind sand bag mounds. American soldiers load a mortar shell and fire it from the trench. Soldiers hang shells through the trench to load larger artillery pieces. With shells being fired overhead, the soldiers go over the top of the trench and begin to cross field. A French tank in the background.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048778
United States soldiers fire artillery at German forces during Battle of Cantigny in World War I.

United States Army 1st Division soldiers during Battle of Cantigny in France, World War 1. Artillerymen drag artillery shells on two-wheel dollies to a heavy gun under a camouflage netting. Gun crew opens breech and loads the gun. Gunner rotates controls to elevate barrel into firing position. Change of scene shows batteries of French 75 field guns firing in the open and from camouflaged bunkers.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048779
French men march on street pushing two persons in wheel chairs. Give "V for Victory" signs with hands.

A group of French men marches on edge of the Champs Elysees in Paris, France. They signal make "V for victory" signs with their fingers. The marchers push a woman in a wheel chair and a man whom they protect from the sun with an umbrella.

Date: 1945
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048974