German soldiers taking American prisoners of war (POWs) during battle following Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Two U.S. soldiers, holding their hands on their heads, being esorted by armed German soldiers. Several American soldier POWs, including some with bandaged wounds. Two French prisoners in civilian clothes. German soldiers escorting tens of American POWs. A few are wounded. One is helped to walk, by two others.
Huge fires burning in a French town due to battles between Allies and German forces and Allied bombing, following the Allied Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Buildings and homes being destroyed by the flames. French firefighters with hoses trying to control the fires. They use tall extension ladder and hoses in attempt to save a church building. They battle fires in several places. Two men hold a high pressure hose. Buildings destroyed and a tall factory chimney falling due to fires. Flames bursting from a shop in the midst of a block of such stores on a commercial street. Local citizens working together to clear debris in the wake of the fires. Workers carry a litter, with body of a victim retrieved from rubble. Closeups of distraught women. Scene shifts to German soldier stealthily carrying a shell to artillerymen under a camouflage netting. View of a German V-1 buzz bomb in flight overhead, on its way toward Britain.
Allied Air Front invasion bombers of the 9th Air Force of United States Army Air Force raid German held positions on French coast during World War II. B-26 planes take off from a base during dawn and bomb Nazi targets on French coast. Nazi antiaircraft guns fired at them and a plane gets crippled by it. The pilot returns and makes crash landing at the base. Airmen rush for help. The airmen ready planes for another raid on the Nazi French invasion coast. Guided bombs dropped from the bombers destroy Nazi bases. Commanding officer of the 9th Air Force, Major General Lewis H Brereton from the war room in England speaks about the success of Allied bombers in Europe.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Lady Churchill celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on the French Riviera. Churchill with his close friends sits in a car. He sits with his family members and smokes cigar while posing for a photo. Wedding photograph of Winston Churchill and Lady Churchill.
Various dramatic scenes captured by newsreel cameramen. French antiaircraft batteries firing during World War I. Aircraft in flame tailspins into earth after being struck by gunfire. Bombs falling towards earth. A capsized ship sinks in water. Bombing of the obsolete battleship New Jersey (BB-16), by one of General Billy Mitchell's bombers, during test, in 1923. View from directly above the battleship as it is hit by a bomb, and view as it capsizes and sinks.
Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) marching informally, on the cobblestone streets of a town on the Belgian—French border during the so-called "Phoney War," at start of World War 2, in 1939. Some local residents watch and wave to the troops. Some children are seen, including a small girl held in her mother's arms. Soldier on bicycle and a canvas-covered utility vehicle are seen along with the marching infantry. The atmosphere is relaxed with no hint of hostilities.
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