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French Forces of the Interior (FFI) clear the way for Allied troops in Paris.

August 1944: French patriots clear the way for Allied troops approaching to liberate Paris. A map shows entry of Allied troops into France. French patriots draw and distribute hidden arms. French men march towards Paris. Demolition fires set by the retreating Germans occupiers throughout the city. Quiet streets and areas of the city before the August uprising. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) Headquarters. FFI men in hideouts. A FFI command post in the city. The members map strategy and prepare arms and ammunition. A woman with a sleeve band with the letters FFI and the Free French Cross of Lorraine insignia. FFI men and women erect barricades throughout the city. Men load rifles. German tanks advance. FFI men in a street fight. A wounded African French man is helped to safety. French patriots behind barricades. A burning vehicle on the road. Smoke from explosions. A man near a wounded on the street. French man and woman disarm a German soldier. German Panther tanks flee. The French take German soldiers prisoners. (World War II period).

Location: Paris France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020658
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's armor advance towards Caen in France.

August 1944: Allied troops in Caen, France. Aerial view of the Allied 21st Army Group Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery's armor advancing in the Normandy countryside. Tanks and artillery advance in fields. A tank on fire. Field Marshal Montgomery shakes hands with three little French girls and accepts flowers from them. He talks to the local residents. Refugees in a church. Children, women, men and elderly people are given food. They take rest. Refugees transferred in trucks. A soldier lights a smoke. French underground soldiers in the street. Women collaborationists who aided the Germans are rounded up and their heads shaved. The bald men and women in a truck. Russian troops near a railway track. The troops march back towards Caen. (World War II period).

Location: Caen Normandy France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020669
The U.S. 3rd Armored Division on Landing Ship Tanks (LST) lands at Normandy in World War II

Allied troops land in Normandy during reinforcement operations in June 1944, in the weeks after D-Day, in World War 2. The U.S. 3rd Armored Division on Landing Ship Tanks (LST) heads towards Normandy. Tanks, trucks, vehicles and equipment on the LSTs. British crew and officers including the Captain on deck. The Captain looks through binoculars. A sailor looks through a telescope. The beach at Normandy filled with battle ships, carriers and Landing ships wait for the tide to recede off shore to avoid unloading equipment in deep water (landing ramps having been destroyed by earlier storms). Barrage balloons overhead. Soldiers build ramps on the beach. Half tracks, trucks and other vehicles driven off the LSTs and across the ramps on the beach.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020903
A Rhino barge and other vessels during invasion of France in World War II

A large military barge, marked "US RHF-25" (Rhino Ferry) passes camera viewing from a boat in the water (unseen). Large transport ships seen in background. The barge is filled with military equipment including trucks, construction equipment, and soldiers. As it proceeds, the camera reveals a large transport ship behind it. Closeup of soldiers standing among the cargo on the barge. Landing ship Tank, (LST 499) flanked by a tug boat. Barrage balloons aloft. Closeup of LST 499 port bow. A transport ship in the background. (Note: on June 8th, 1944, LST 499 struck a mine while backing away from Utah Beach, loaded with wounded and medical personnel. Fourteen Crew members were lost, and an unknown number of casualties among the wounded passengers and medical personnel.)

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020937
British soldiers fight the Nazis in Lisieux and General Charles De Gaulle visits Chartres en route to Paris liberation

British soldiers enter the town of Lisieux, France. Armed British soldiers patrol the streets. Soldiers walk past the destroyed buildings. Firing and bombardment. Soldiers and British tanks fire at Nazis hiding in the town. A French civilian woman brings a glass of water and a pitcher to a prone British soldier firing at German positions from a street corner. Soldier prone firing a machine gun. People in the town of Chartres, a center of resistance. A young woman resistance soldier talks to an Allied French soldier. French General Charles De Gaulle and other officers greeted by the town on August 23, 1944. De Gaulle addressed the town to commend their resistance. De Gaulle looks at the Chateau de Rambouillet in Rambouillet, France, from where he directed the French armored divisions in their push to Paris. Views of the palace, gardens, and a lake at the Chateau de Rambouillet with Charles De Gaulle standing beside the lake. (World War II period).

Location: Lisieux France
Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021091
Scenes from 1929 Geneva Convention; surrender of 20,000 Germans to U.S. General Macon by German Major General Elster near Loire

A U.S. Army Signal Corps training film on Rules for controlling German prisoners of war in World War 2. International conference 1929 in Geneva, Switzerland. Various officers and dignitaries in the conference where the Geneva Convention was agreed-upon by many nations. Image of Field Manual 27-10 states the Rules of Land Warfare based on the Geneva Conventions and describes standard procedures for handling Prisoners of War. Scene of 20,000 Prisoners of War who surrender under Nazi Major General Eric Elster at Loire, France September 16, 1944 to the United States 3rd Army, 83rd Division, under General Macon. General Elster salutes General Macon, then approaches the microphones in the middle of a roadway and delivers a surrender speech. General Macon then replies accepting the surrender on behalf of General Simpson. General Macon states that the men will be treated according to the rules made during the conference in Geneva.

Location: Loire France
Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021183
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