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Allied forces prepare for D-Day, also known as 'Operation Overlord' (WW2)

'Eve of Battle' depicts the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Slave labor from Nazi Germany-invaded countries construct Atlantic Wall. German artillery and fortifications in the Atlantic Wall. Nazi German soldiers marching in groups. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shake hands with Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin sit together during the Tehran Conference in December 1943. Exiled Allied leaders such as General Charles de Gaulle of France, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Dr. Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia inspect Allied troops. Various Allied troops from Poland, Norway, England, United States, and Czechoslovakia prepare to launch an invasion in France. Eisenhower along with other officers plans the European invasion. Allied ships and aircraft on their way to Europe. Allied bombers drop bombs over Nazi German U-boats. Naval battle begins and explosions occur, smoky docks. In England war supplies unloaded. Supplies include weapons, military equipment, and food. A tank and locomotive trains being loaded into a ship bound for Europe. Allied aircraft take off at night. A man directs an aircraft taking off. Allied bombers bombard German targets resulting into fiery flare in Europe. British children playing jump rope as a supply train pass by in the background. Tanks and fighter planes transported by train. Supply boxes unloaded and stacked for transport to the battle front.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049407
Mexicana Lockheed 10 Electra air crash on Peñon hill in Mexico.

Mexicana air crash near Mexico City, Mexico. 8 passengers die in the crash after the aircraft struck against the hill of Peñon de los Baños. Wreckage of the Mexicana Lockheed 10 Electra plane (XA-BAU) scattered on the mountain.

Location: Mexico
Date: 1938, December 8
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049477
Parisians celebrate victory in the battle for Paris during World War II

The end of the Battle for Paris during World War 2. French woman on bicycle ducks under Large white banner reading (in German) "Armistice. Do not shoot." French Resistance taking German prisoners through the streets. Camera pans down burned out hotel building to street below filled with Parisians making their way around burned and shattered vehicles. The French tricolor flag flying above a building. View of Fort de Romainville, and bodies of French executed in its yard. Frenchmen tear down posters of Vichy officials. People ride in truck displaying American flags. Others pose atop a German tank on which they have painted the Free French Cross of Lorraine symbol. French General Leclerc leads elements of his armored division past Liberty statue. Spectators jam every available space along the way. Suddenly smoke appears as shooting breaks out and the parade stops. People in the streets and sidewalks seek cover, while French forces return fire on the German snipers. Soon the scene is partially obscured by the smoke of gunfire. People keep running for cover. Final scenes are entirely celebratory, filled with happy Parisians.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049503
FFI leaders in Paris, France during World War II.

On the liberation of France from German troops during World War II. A group of FFI ( French Forces of Interior ) men round up collaborators and load them into a FFI truck. Leaders of FFI. Dead bodies of civilians lying on the grounds of the Fort de Romainville which served as a Nazi prison and transit camp. They had been massacred by German forces.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1944, August
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675049547
Allied forces and FFI fight against German forces in Paris, France during World War II.

Liberation of France from German troops during World War II. Allied soldiers look at a map and plan the strategy to fight against the German troops in Paris. Red Cross flags in the background. Allied troops loaded on tanks and half ton trucks as they advance to counter the Germans. Dead soldiers. Heavy firing takes place. Intense street fighting. Tanks move past the Arc de Triomphe as Allies rout the resisting Germans from the area. German prisoners of war enter a prison. Prisoners made to march.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675049550
A girl wears a dress of Allied flags during Victory in Europe Day celebrations in Paris, France (WW2)

Victory in Europe Day, at end of World War II in Europe. French girls with pilots wearing small Allied flags. French man fist pumping. Civilians march as they carry Allied flags. A girl with a poodle on a truck during the celebrations. A French girl in a traditional costume with an Allied soldier. A "liberated" Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft flies over a crowded Avenue des Champs Elysees. A girl with a bicycle wears a dress made of Allied national flag.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1945, May
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049779
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