Recap ot the Allied invasion at Normandy, in World War II. Convoy reaches Normandy on D-Day. Allied fleet heads for Normandy beach. Blinker signals being given from ships. Naval ships start to fire broadsides and bombard coasts. Allied troops board landing crafts alongside ships. U.S. P-51 fighters and B-26s strafe flak towers, railroads, and canals in Normandy. Troops offload onto assault boats and landing craft. Rockets being fired from ships toward coastal positions of the enemy. Bombs being dropped over ground targets from Allied bombers. Smoke billows up from bomb explosions. Naval guns bombard a coast. From edited film produced in 1947.
Men of FFI (French Forces of the Interior) in German occupied Paris during World War II. Interiors of a building shows a meeting of civilian heads of FFI (French Forces of the Interior). A German prisoner with a beaten face walks in. Captured German prisoners are led into a courtyard. Formation of FFI men and other Frenchmen in uniforms. A girl stands in front of the formation of FFI men.
Two civilians and two soldiers, are standing on the sidewalk in front of the train station at Montparnasse, Paris (Gare de Montparnasse) during World War 2 liberation of Paris. A remnant of former German occupation is a sign (in German) indicating it is for the German Army and contains the office of the train station guard officer. The French tricolor is displayed on the front of the building. Through the large glass window of the station, several men are seen huddled around a table inside. Camera moves inside, showing General Philippe Leclerc commander of the Free French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée,2e DB, aka La Division Leclerc). He is reviewing tactical maps with officers of his staff. After a glimpse of a train on a track behind them, the camera returns to Leclerc and his officers, and then pans upward to the train station clock reading 12:47.
View from elevated vantage point, of soldiers assembling beneath the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. Others move from a street, forming up and marching into the circle around the monument (which has been cleared for the event). Spectators line the sidewalks around the Arch circle. Several motorcycles lead and others escort a motorcade of several cars. Street-level view of General Dwight Eisenhower,saluting the crowds, as he stands in an open car passing the Monument to the Republic, situated at Place de la République. The car crosses a bridge and turns toward the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) on the place de l'Hotel-de-Ville. Closeups of crowds from the passing car. Sequence shifts to a different open car carrying French Marshal jean de lattre de tassigny (smoking a cigarette) sharing the back seat with a French Air Force officer (appears to be Philippe Maurin). (World War II period).
General and Mrs Eisenhower meet other officials in Paris. He sends his request to be relieved of his post as the Commander-in-Chief of Western Europe's armies. He addresses the officials and talks about the GOP convention.
Panning views of the damaged Fort Conde (East of Soissons, on Aisne) after its capture by French forces on April 17, 1917, in World War 1. Several British officers walk into the abandoned fort. Two dead horses are seen amid debris.
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