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Indochinese soldiers perform music and Hat Tuong opera in France (WW1)

French Indochinese soldiers play musical instruments from their home country while stationed in France during World War I. Soldiers from Indochina with drums, gong, and a fiddle-like instrument (likely a Dan). Indochinese actors dressed as Vietnamese warlords. An elderly Indochinese playing an indigenous trumpet. Actors performing a Vietnamese Hat Tuong opera. A young Indochinese soldier smiling during the play.

Date: 1918
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080355
Senegalese soldiers perform native dances and music; wrestling match in France (WW1)

French colonial Senegalese troops perform traditional native dances during their spare time in France (World War I). Musicians play tom-tom drums, tambourine, and pipes as French African soldiers dance. Two Senegalese soldiers engage in a wrestling match as a crowd watches.

Date: 1918
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080358
Senegalese soldiers boarding a train at a railway station in France (WW1)

French colonial Senegalese troops waiting for trains at a railway station in France during World War I. Some soldiers are seen waiting under the shade of a tree. Rifle pyramids in front of soldiers. Senegalese soldiers arrive in station platform. They are boarding a train. A Senegalese soldier peers from railroad train window. French officers waving good-bye at the Senegalese soldiers as train departs.

Date: 1918
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080359
B-25 bomb at Brest, Canadian troops advance, civilians buy goods and U.S. soldiers secure voting cards in France (WW2)

Normal life of civilians resume after German surrender in some parts of France during World War II. Aerial view of flak in sky. Close-up view of two U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight. (Narrator incorrectly states they are British Lancaster bomber aircraft.) View from bomb bay doors of bombs away shot as the B-25 bomber aircraft drop bombs on U-boat pens at Brest. Explosions and smoke rise. The aircraft drop bombs over ground installation over enemy area. Canadian soldier scenes: Troops advance through a burning coastal town in France. Buildings collapsing and gunfire in streets. Smoke rising. Ruins of destroyed French town are seen. Allied Army tanks advance and fire artillery. German prisoners of war from Wehrmacht 7th and 15th armies being marched under watch by Canadian forces. Among the German prisoners is a 13 year old Russian boy who was forced to work by the Nazis. German prisoners in a soup line and seen drinking from mugs. Some appear to be very young boy soldiers. U.S. Army soldiers in Le Mans: American soldiers are welcomed by civilians of France. Happy French civilians waving to U.S. forces including a happy young woman who runs forward and pats a U.S. Army tank with her hand. Men and women collaborationists who assisted the Germans are rounded up by French and marched away. U.S. Army soldiers seated at stools in a French bar drink as the bar maid pours more into their glasses. French civilians line up at shops and groceries to buy food and goods in Le Mans. Pictures of General De Gaulle for sale. American women in U.S. Army uniforms (possibly nurses or Womens Army Corps WAC members) look in shop windows at French fashions. Voting cards: U.S. Army troops read pamphlets that read "requirement of soldiers to vote" and "Soldiers Voting". The U.S. Army GI's receive and mail postcards to their homes requesting absentee voting ballots for the upcoming November 1944 election. The soldiers line up to secure their application cards for absentee ballots.

Date: 1944, August 31
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071443
British and French forces in Dunkirk; German forces close in on Dunkirk and British sailors board ships in France during World War II.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German attack on Dunkirk. The map depicts advancing German forces and retreating British, French and Belgian forces. View of British Expeditionary Force soldiers firing artillery, and of French soldiers firing artillery, as German forces continue to close in. Germans advance on Dunkirk in France. German soldiers take aim and fire artillery. German artillery guns behind nets. Explosions in the battlefield. German soldiers communicate over the radio. They take cover under enemy fire. Machine gun fire. German tanks advance at high speed. German soldiers on foot advance amid explosions on the battlefield. German soldiers climb onto tanks. German troops eat and drink beer while they rest. The British forces on camouflaged tanks. British and French troops board British boats and ships during the Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo).

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021747
German soldiers explore a cathedral and civilians listen to an French occupation broadcast in France.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. German soldiers enter the sandbagged Notre-Dame of Laon cathedral in Laon, France. They take a look around. Pillars and arches inside the church cathedral. A soldier plays the pipe organ in the cathedral nave. A French woman washes clothes in a stream. Little boys play by a fountain in a town. An elderly carpenter in a workshop. A woman irons clothes in a room. Civilians on a street. Pedestrians and cyclists move about. A crowd outside the 'Radiobecks' radio store on the street. Men, women and children listen to an occupation broadcast in French. Soldiers battle in fields. Machine gun fire.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021750