United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) P-47 Thunderbolts, aka "jugs," fly low over an airfield in France. Some of the P-47s display yellow cowlings and blue and red striped tails. Others display red cowlings. The aircraft fly over in flights of 4 aircraft each, and break for landings. However, they do not land, but either buzz low over the runway, or make touch and go landings.
Vichy French troops recruited for the Axis war effort sing as they march through the streets of German-occupied France during World War 2. Soldiers' luggage lying at the train station, as they are inspected. Nazi German soldiers and officers seen near the group at railroad station platform. Soldiers bid farewell to their families. They board the train and wave goodbye. Chalk writing on doors of train includes a Nazi death head symbol and "Vive 8 Compagnie," possibly a reference to the 8th Sturmbrigade SS Frankreich. However, more likely is that these are soldiers of the Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism, or LVF, as a "Vive LVF" message can also be seen written in chalk on the side of a train car. Soldiers and civilians on the platform salute the soldiers as the train leaves the station.
6 August 1944: A U.S. armored column on the outskirts of Mayenne on their way to Paris, France in World War II. Soldiers in trucks, jeeps and half tracks. Soldiers prepare to fight, push artillery across a field. Troops march into Mayenne. Civilians welcome and greet the soldiers. U.S. troops and a van on the road. The troops and tanks enter Laval. Civilians greet the soldiers. Civilians on bicycles wave to soldiers in a truck. Soldiers and civilians at a bombed bridge. Soldiers fire at Nazis across the river from behind a wall. Civilians with French flags on the streets. A woman collaborationist surrounded by French men, holds pictures and has a Swastika on her dress front. A woman holds a broken picture of German leader Adolf Hitler. People with US, British, and French flags in a building window.
A bridge under construction in France. German recruits at work on the bridge. Workers assemble wooden planks. They pull a rope and lay an iron bar. '6 / EISB.PI.RGT.2' written on the side of a building next to railway tracks. German soldiers lined by the tracks. The Swastika insignia sewn on their sleeves. An officer inspects the troops. The officer and other soldiers survey the constructed bridge. A decorated train inaugurates the newly constructed bridge. (World War II period).
German soldiers in France. Sldiers repair autos, work on tanks, weld parts, and fix tire tubes. A soldier washes clothes in boiling water, then under a hand pump. Soldiers hang clothes on aline to dry. Soldiers organize papers and clothes. They stitch and sew on machines. Repair and stitch boots. (World War II period).
German soldiers relax in occupied France during World War 2. Soldiers play music directed by a conductor. Soldiers play leap frog on a beach. German soldiers splash around and swim in a lake. Soldiers relax with nurses at a hospital. Nurses among soldiers. German soldiers relax at an outdoor cafe here (with no sign of any French people around) and they drink draft beer poured by two women. A German soldier talks to a little boy. German soldiers observe the view over a river and ravine from an elevated position.
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