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French and U.S. troops celebrate Bastille Day in liberated Cherbourg.

U.S. and French troops parade in liberated Cherbourg on Bastille Day. The troops and civilians gathered in a city square. Men, women and children watch. Soldiers and civilians hold flags. The US, French Navy and French Forces of the Interior (FFI) march alongside. The band plays. People watch from their homes. General Charles De Gaulle present at the celebration. 'Vive De Gaulle' on a banner. The square is renamed 'Place General De Gaulle.' Soldiers and policemen salute. Children hold flowers. People sing and dance in the square. Musicians play their instruments. (World War II period).

Location: Cherbourg Normandy France
Date: 1944, July 14
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020671
Allied troops in Cherbourg, and German prisoners, after the D-Day Normandy landings in World War II

Allied troops soon after D-Day landings at Normandy in World War 2. View of Cherbourg town destroyed by the Germans. A soldier near a wall. The destroyed docks. A soldier on a destroyed inland bridge. French women and a man welcome the Allied troops with bouquets on a destroyed bridge. Hundreds of German officers and soldiers taken prisoners marched on the street. A wounded prisoner in a wheel barrow.

Location: Cherbourg Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020904
U.S. soldiers throw darts at Adolf Hitler portrait in Cherbourg after the D-Day invasion of Europe in World War II

Allied troops in Cherbourg after the Normandy Landings on D-Day in World War 2. A former German Headquarters in the town. A portrait of the German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. A U.S. soldier and MP (Military Police) point towards the portrait. The soldiers use it as a pin board, throwing darts at it.

Location: Cherbourg Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020905
Red Cross worker and medical corpsmen attend to wounded U.S. soldiers at Fleville during WWI.

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) wounded soldiers being assisted by Red Cross and medical corpsmen during World War 1. U.S. soldiers gathered around a number of wounded lying on the ground on stretchers. A senior Red Cross worker, using a cane, makes the rounds, stopping to visit with the wounded soldiers. Several medical corpsmen, wearing red cross arm bands, accompany him. He gives a cigarette to one soldier and converses with him. He bends over another wounded soldier, holding what appears to be gum and such, in his hand. He chats with the soldier. Medics carry wounded on stretchers to a tree line, where a sign identifies a Red Cross Post. A medic unwraps first aid supplies from a box. The medics bandage the arm of a wounded soldier. Closeup of the wounded soldier. They give him a cigarette. Closeup of him smiling and smoking.

Location: Fleville Chatel France
Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023653
U.S. sailors aboard the USS Memphis salute as Lindbergh climbs aboard to return to the U.S.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh leaves Paris after his trans-Atlantic flight. The USS Memphis arrives to receive him. The U.S. flag on the ship. 'Memphis' written on the ship side. Sailors on the deck. A boat approaches the ship. Sailors standing on the smoke stacks and on deck await his arrival. They watch as Lindbergh boards the ship. The sailors salute as he climbs aboard. They greet and congratulate Lindbergh.

Location: Cherbourg Normandy France
Date: 1928
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031364
French 1st Army entering towns in Alsace during World War II

French 1st Army, C.C.1, under Colonel Gruss, moving west along highway D16 through the village of Schwoben. Infantry and armor entering Schwoben, past a sign reading "Tagsdorf" ( a village towards the west) in Alsace, during World War 2. A French soldier pauses by the body of a fallen German soldier. Local French people reentering the town of Sierentz,, some carrying belongings on horse-drawn wagon. The church of St. Martin in the background. Large number of French civilian men march loosely into the town, headed by one carrying the French flag.They wave and smile as they pass the camera. They march past an M10 tank destroyer and several French troops. View from jeep passing roadsign reading "Mulhausen,3.62." (This was located on highway D56 between Zimmersheim and Eschentzwiller.) View from parked jeep as jeeps and armored vehicles enter town. Local people fill the sidewalks to watch as French troops and tanks enter the town. French tricolor flags fly from windows of buildings.

Location: Alsace-Lorraine France
Date: 1944, November 22
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055071
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