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U.S. AAF VIII Fighter Command 1st Lieutenant RS Wetmore strafes a train and an FW 190 in Germany during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 22 April 1944: 1st Lieutenant RS Wetmore of the 359th Fighter Group 370th Squadron attacks ground targets. Lt. Wetmore strafes a Germn train. Smoke billows from the burning train. A hit German Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf FW 190 Wurger in a field. Smoke rises from the wrecked aircraft.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021829
U.S. AAF VIII Fighter Command Lieutenant O.R. Jones attacks a German FW 190 in Germany during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 24 April 1944: Lieutenant O.R. Jones of the 4th Fighter Group 335th Squadron attacks a German Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighter aircraft. The U.S. aircraft in flight amidst clouds. The FW 190 in sight. The two aircraft in a dogfight. Firing and explosions.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021830
U.S. AAF VIII Fighter Command Captain Woody attacks 5 ME 109s in flight over Germany during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 24 April 1944: Captain Woody of the 355th Fighter Group 354th Squadron attacks 5 German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt (ME) 109 fighter aircraft. The U.S. aircraft in flight amidst clouds. The ME 109s in flight. Captain Woody attacks the German aircraft. A ME 109 is hit, descends towards the ground. Other ME 109s in flight.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021831
French General Charles De Gaulle leads victory celebration of French resistance fighters in Paris

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944. French General Charles De Gaulle leads troops as they march on the Champs Elysees. Soldiers with the French flag. A large crowd of civilians join the celebrations. De Gaulle pays tribute at the Eternal Light at Arc de Triomphe. He is accompanied by French officers and soldiers. Civilians crowd around. De Gaulle and his men parade on the Paris streets. Civilians cheer and celebrate the liberation. Men and women on tanks. U.S. General Eisenhower together with U.S. General Omar Bradley join in the celebration, smile, and talk to American and French military leaders in front of the Arc de Triomphe. The French Resistance flag unfurled on a building. Parisians give the victory sign. The French flag raised on a building. (World War II period).

Location: Paris France
Date: 1944, August 26
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021865
U.S. General Patch, U.S. Admiral Hewitt, and French Admiral Lemonnier lead the Allied fleet invasion of southern France.

Amphibious and airborne Allied forces land in southern France during World War II. (Operation Dragoon in August 1944). Map of France depicts Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day. Naples: An Allied naval force assembles, poised for landing in Southern France, 10 weeks after the Normandy D-Day invasion. Thousands of landing crafts, trucks, tanks, mobile cannons, military vehicles and equipment in the embarkation area. Barrages in flight overhead. Allied officers supervise as the vehicles are loaded into ships. US, French, British, Greek and Polish troops move up to their ships. The ships underway in the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Army General Alexander Patch, French Admiral Andre Lemonnier and U.S. Navy Admiral Henry Hewitt (Chief of the Atlantic Invasion Fleet) aboard the flagship. Allied soldiers stitch sleeve patches. An animated map depicts the Allied invasion of southern France near Toulon in a combined amphibious and airborne assault. Hundreds of transport aircraft carry paratroop forces. The paratroopers get ready, jump, and descend to the ground. The amphibious forces near the French coast. German shore batteries fire at the approaching naval vessels. Explosions on ships and in water. Allied troops crouched in landing crafts. They hit the beach under shell fire and advance in land.

Location: Mediterranean Theater
Date: 1944, August
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021888
U.S. Army officers and war correspondents at the bombed, abandoned French Chateau de Pont-Rilly during World War II after D-Day

Uniformed U.S. war correspondents and U.S. Army officers explore the house and grounds of the French Chateau de Pont-Rilly, in Négreville near Normandy France, soon after the Invasion of Europe. (The chateau was designed in 1765 by architect Pierre-Raphaël de Lozon for the Marquis d'Ourville). U.S. Army officers in the balcony of the mansion overlooking the entrance. Exteriors of the palatial chateau. A large bomb hole is visible in the roof, right of the main entrance. A French boy points out something distant on the grounds of the Chateau. A swan in a pond. Exteriors of the mansion. At the end of July 1944, near the time this footage was shot, the chateau became the headquarters of Advance Section of Com Z, also known as "ADSEC" (Advance Section, Communications Zone).

Location: Negreville Normandy France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022050
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