French Marshal Petain, now Premier, following Battle of France, walks to a car and seen later at conference table with Pierre Laval and other national leaders. View of Adolf Hitler, with close associates, expressing delight after signing of the second armistice at Compiegne,ending resistance by France, on June 22, 1940. German honor guard marching near Marshal Foch's railroad car where the 1918 armistice was signed. Monument of Marshal Foch. Hitler, Hermann Goering, and Admiral Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine, review the honor guard. German stand at steps of the rail car. Raeder, and Goering, both carrying Marshal's batons, flank Hitler. French Army General Charles Huntziger, accompanied by General Jean Bergeret,Air Minister, Vice Admiral Le Luc, Commander of Maritime Forces, and Ambassador Leon Noel, are escorted by two German officers. They enter the railroad carriage. View inside, as Hitler, Goering and German representatives stand when they enter. Newspaper headline describes tax on France for German occupation. French prisoners of war in an outdoor yard and being moved to Germany. French prisoners in bucket brigade and carrying construction materials. French workers engaged in labor to support German war effort. Unhappy French children. Public funerals for persons executed by the Germans. German flag draped over the Foch statue. Hitler's touring motorcade passes Arc de Triomphe in Paris in early morning when streets are empty. Parisians gather on streets to hear German orders broadcast. Many express distress. In Southern France, Military units carry their colors as they depart for North Africa. General Charles de Gaulle is among the marchers. De Gaulle seen reviewing contingents of French military. Free French soldiers parading in London, England. Military officers salute as the ship carrying Regimental colors departs. French colors carried beside unit with American flag. General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Giraud at 1943 Casablanca Conference (Roosevelt and Churchill seated).
United States Navy air craft carrier Boxer arrives the Yokosuka harbor, Japan with planes on the flight deck including F4U Corsairs. American sailors carry the wounded on stretcher down the gangway and place them in an ambulance.
Hose stick into holes on flight deck to extinguish fire in hangar deck of United States Navy air craft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) off the coast of Korea during Korean War. Men throw ammunition overboard. A helicopter takes off the fantail of Boxer and flies around the carrier.
Major General Gavin of United States 82nd Airborne Division and Captain Cameroon Briggs,Commanding Officer on the deck of United States Navy aircraft carrier Boxer (CV-21). Flight Deck chief signals and Lieutenant Scott Cummins climbs into cockpit of his F-4U-4 Corsair. Lt. Cummins has Navy Fighter Squadron VF-63 Fighting Redcocks patch on his right shoulder. VF-63 is part of Carrier Air Group 2 (CVG-2). (Korean War)
Two man talk to each other in forward engine room of United States Navy air craft carrier Boxer during Korean War. A bearded man wipes oil from the pump. Ship's drive shaft turning in after auxiliary machinery room. A man speaks over a telephone.
A film titled ' Airborne armies join big attack on Germany' shows Allied airborne troops getting into planes to join the attack on Germany during World War II. Planes take off and paratroopers land in Germany while in mid air to reinforce Army units in field.
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