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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.

Date: 1944, August
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021888
United States 1st Infantry Division soldiers advance into French cities and fight for Aachen during World War II.

The role of United States 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) in various campaigns in Europe during World War II. United States 1st Infantry Division men fight in France as they advance further inland into the country. Soldiers relax, get a haircut and write a letter back home to their families. On July 25th , 1944 German aircraft launch an air attack. Infantrymen fight in the streets of a city in France. Combat engineers plant land mines. 1st Infantry Division soldiers enter Coutance, Mortain, Etampes, Meaux and Soissons. Soldiers around a monument at the Belgium border. 1st Infantry soldiers advance towards Aachen. Tanks fire as soldiers fight against the Germans in Aachen. Men on a machine gun. On October 25th 1944 Aachen surrenders to the Allies. U.S. Army armored vehicle drives over Nazi flag lying in a street.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058746
German forces defending against Allied advances toward Germany during WW2.

Map highlighting France, Belgium, and low countries, and German border city of Aachen during World War II. Soldiers riding on German Panther tanks camouflaged with foliage. They pass infantry walking along the side of the road. A Panzer IV with side track protectors. Commander of the German 5th Panzer Army, General Hasso von Manteuffel, conversing with officers of the 116th Panzer Division, September 1944. German tanks and infantry moving across a field. German soldier firing from prone position in a field. Knocked out American M3 halftracks. Captured American jeep and M3 halftrack. A very young German boy soldier escorting two ambulatory wounded American soldier prisoners of war. A small group of American prisoners of war. German field artillery firing and smoke rising from their shells exploding in distance. German troops entering town of Moncel-Les-Luneville, in Northeast France. Fire burning in the town. The Moncel-les-Luneville building after bombing in Luneville, France, at 15 Rue des Tuiliers, 54300 Moncel-lès-Lunéville, France. A Panzer tank enters Luneville. A huge smoke column rising in background.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675056350
Various Allied Generals assume new commands in Italy during December, 1944, World War II.

On 12 December, 1944, at an airport in Naples, Italy, British General Sir Henry Nathan Wilson inspects an honor guard of American Military Policemen in formation. (Narrator states he is en route to replace the late Field Marshal Sir John Dill, in Washington, DC, USA) A contingent of British troops is also present as part of the honor guard, on the wet airport tarmac. (Narrator states that Wilson will head the British Joint Staff Mission and be personal military representative for Prime Minister Winston Churchill.) He approaches a line of U.S. military officers who salute him. Closeup of General Wilson With U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, next to U.S. Vice Admiral Kent Hewitt. Also with them (back to camera) is British Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet. Next, General Wilson and his party are seen boarding a British Avro York four-engine Heavy Transport aircraft. View from the ground, of the aircraft cockpit and the engines running as it taxis out for takeoff. Change of scene shows troops gathered in open air battlefield environment. General Mark Clark, now Commander-in-Chief of the Allied 15th Army Group, decorates some members of the 5th Army, as General Lucian King Truscott Jr. (new 5th Army Commander) stands by his side. General Clark says farewell to members of the 5th Army and shakes hands with many of them. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944, December 12
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044519
Allied bombings over France by RAF Boston (A-20) and Mitchell (B-25) bomber aircraft during World War 2.

Close-up front view of nose of parked A-20 aircraft with two French crew members of RAF 342 Squadron during World War II. Symbol of Free French Forces seen painted on their Boston (A-20) aircraft. Aerial view of several A-20 aircraft at low altitude flying on daytime bombing run over waters of the English Channel with white cliffs of Dover in background. Dramatic low-altitude gun camera footage as A-20 flies over coast of France, with shadow of A-20 on ground while in flight. Dramatic point of view shots from moving aircraft at very low altitude as bomber aircraft skim just above buildings, homes, railroads, and factories in France while en route to target area. Target area comes into view, with smoke rising from recently hit bombing targets. Higher altitude gun camera shots as bomber aircraft passes through smoke and near smoke plumes rising from bombed targets, and then begins return trip home. Close up aerial view of two B-25 aircraft of Dutch Squadron on bombing run over German held targets in France from medium altitude . Gun camera footage as bombs hit targets and raise huge clouds of smoke. A B-25 aircraft is hit by enemy fire. The B-25 bomber is seen falling out of control in smoke and flames.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038864
View from the air of grounded British glider aircraft used in invasion of France, strewn across large fields.

Daytime aerial view of grounded British Airspeed Horsa glider aircraft used during the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion of France during World War II (Battle of Normandy). Many gliders strewn across a wide area of fields. View of a glider on the ground and British soldiers moving away from a glider. Two soldiers wheel bicycles away from a glider. Footage is from period between June 6 and June 9, 1944 (D-Day to D plus 3)

Date: 1944, June 8
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038171