General Jacques Philippe Leclerc of Free French Forces and French troops enter Paris during liberation of Paris in World War II. Tanks pass along a road in Rambouillet. General Jacques Philippe Leclerc of Free French Forces speaks to a crowd in the city. French civilians along a road. German prisoners are marched on a street.
View of U.S. Army Field Hospital set up in Normandy, France, following the Allied invasion in World War 2. U.S. DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) passes along a road. American wounded being carried on stretchers to hospital tent. Intravenous treatment being administered to a wounded soldier; man standing holds IV bag. American Army nurses and corpsman preparing bandages inside a field hospital tent. Nurses seated near a tent. One drinks coffee from her metal mess cup. Nurses comforting and assisted wounded soldiers. Two German prisoners of war (POWs) pose for camera. It is unusual that two of the German soldiers appear to be of East Asian descent. (It has been reported that there was a Korean man named Yang Kyoungjong who was three times captured and conscripted into the Japanese army, then the Soviet Army, and then the German Wehrmacht during World War 2. He was captured by the U.S. Army during the invasion of Normandy. The identify of the two German soldiers of Asian descent seen in this footage is unknown.) German POWs carrying a wounded comrade toward a treatment tent. A German POW Army doctor and his assistant treating a soldier for shrapnel wounds. The doctor waves toward German POWs to bring their wounded, on a litter, to him. POWs carrying wounded on a litter. Paratrooper of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, with bandages across his face, carries a wounded buddy to treatment area. Closeup of the trooper smiling in spite of his bandaged face. Ambulatory wounded U.S. soldier being registered by Army nurse. Corpsman of 101st Airborne, on stretcher on the ground.
U.S. officers in Cherbourg during World War II. American Brigadier General leads two German General officer prisoners along a road in Cherbourg. Interiors of a building as a U.S. Intelligence Officer (Captain) interrogates the German Generals. After the interrogation, U.S. Major General Joseph Lawton Collins stands with the German Generals outside the building. He then directs the captured German officers to a vehicle in which they are driven away.
A U.S. Navy officer at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria after his liberation immediately after World War II. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack Taylor from Hollywood, California stands among other survivors and describes his capture, imprisonment and conditions for prisoners at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
Eastern terminal of the Trans-Siberian railway. Various views of the railroad terminal building in Vladivostok, Russia, during Russian Civil War and World War I. Soldiers and travelers stand on the station steps. A horse-drawn carriage arrives at the building. An American Army officer comes out of the train station. A funeral cortege with elaborate carriage drawn by team of horses, and mourners walking behind. An electric street car on a street, and an open automobile, both passing several horse-drawn wagons. Horse-drawn carriages pass Czech soldiers escorting German prisoners along a street.
U.S. Coast Guard works to rescue victims of a flood in Greenwood, Mississippi. Men lower Coast Guard dory boats from a railroad car. Spectators watch as the men put dory boats in the water. Prisoners in striped clothes stack sandbags to control overflowing water of Yazoo and Tallahatchie Rivers. Submerged houses and trees. Residents flee in boats. Coast Guard officers aboard a boat in water. U.S. Army and Red Cross Fokker F.VII a aircraft in flight over the flood area. Aerial views of the flooded region.
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