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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.

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 male collaborators and one woman collaborationist, accused of assisting the Germans, 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.

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.

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.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049779
King George V visits the British hospital ship HMHS Plassy during World War I

King George V of Great Britain visits the Royal Navy's Hospital ship, HMHS Plassy, at Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys, on June 23, 1917, during World War 1. The original Lascar (Asian) crew of the P&O (Peninsular and Oriental) ship , is seen lined up, in whites, on the deck of the Hospital ship, as King George walks past them, slowly ,accompanied by captain, Edward de Walrond Wells Bruce, and officers of the ship's company. On another deck, the King and his party stop to greet the uniformed medical staff, including nurses. An aide introduces each medical staff person by name, and the King shakes hands with each and converses briefly with some. The King visits wounded in the ship's medical ward. He converses with one patient, before proceeding to visit others.

Date: 1917, June 23
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049922
Visit to the Mission Santa Barbara, a Spanish mission of the Franciscan order, founded in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Franciscan monks at Mission Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. A red map of the United States. Exterior view of the Santa Barbara Mission at Santa Barbara in California, USA. A Franciscan monk walking in a covered walkway of the Mission (Misión de Santa Bárbara 2201 Laguna St. Santa Barbara, California 93105). Greyhound tourist bus travels through a tunnel and on a highway. Exterior views of the greyhound bus, and interior point of view shot of highway and approaching tunnel from inside the bus. Silhouette of the passenger bus driver, driving on the highway.

Date: 1942
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675050325