The Allied invasion fleet on a beachhead in Normandy as seen from a glider during the D-Day landings in World War II. A pilot talks through a radio. United States gliders on the ground are seen, some of the planes are partly demolished after landing.
Road graders and bulldozers leveling a new airstrip in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. Rolls of Marston Mat steel planking in the foreground. A Piper L-4 plane lands and takes off from the new strip. A United States soldier radio operator working with a colleague.
An exhibition boxing match between American boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and Frenchman Jean Stock at the Sports Palace in Paris. The boxers in the boxing ring. The match underway. Sugar Ray punches Jean Stock and knocks him down three times. Spectators cheer during the match. The Frenchman's manager forfeits the match.
Two trucks and a bus full of liberated French prisoners drive down an avenue in Paris. A large Parisian crowd including young girls watch their arrival. People wave out to welcome the prisoners as they wave back. Sign on bus stating 'Repatriated Prisoners'. Shots of French prisoners as a civilian offers them cigarettes. A Parisian volunteer nurse. Trucks of prisoners pull up before a building. A liberated Algerian prisoner drinks from a bottle of wine. View of a French soldier. (World War II period).
Scenes of a Paris compound. Two men working on a machinery part. A man fixing the hood atop a jeep. Another man approaches the jeep.
Views of numerous gargoyles, grotesques, and chimeras on the Notre Dame Cathedral (Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris). The city of Paris can be seen in the background. U.S. military personnel leave the church as French honor guards line up outside. Gendarmes around the church as MPs get ready to march. (World War II period)
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