Allied bombers drop bombs near Caen, France during World War II. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers of the United States Eighth Air Force in flight, passing over surface vessels bound for France six days after D-day. Aerial view of a French city, bombed by another group. Pillar of smoke rises up from the bombed city. Moving engine propeller of a bomber. small fragmentation and incendiary bombs are released over French airfield and railroad bridges outside Caen. Aerial view of Norman countryside. Craters from bombs are seen in aerial view.
U.S. Army 29th Infantry Division soldiers stand in smoke-filled streets of Isigny-sur-Mer, France, during its liberation from Nazi German occupation, three days after the Allied invasion of France in World War 2. Two American soldiers stand at a stone monument in Place Gambetta, at Rue Émile Demagny. View of the damaged Hotel de France in the town, and U.S. soldiers crouched under its sign, looking upward and likely monitoring for German snipers. Next scene shows a U.S. Army soldier standing guard with his rifle pointed at four captured German soldiers and one German officer. The prisoners of war are a mix of young soldiers and old. With sullen, exhausted expressions the German soldiers lean and sit against the building of the Cafe du Port. A seated German soldier has a bandage wrapped around one foot. Close-up view of an old French sign above the head of the U.S. soldier, dated 1867, that warns residents not to throw garbage into the port waters. A French woman wrapped in a shawl leans close toward a seated U.S. soldier while she speaks to him and points. A very elderly French woman, using a cane, and wearing traditional clothing of the region, walks past a group of American soldiers over top of rubble from bombing. A group of U.S. soldiers on patrol walks away from camera position toward other streets of the town.
A war-damaged cathedral at, or near La Ferte-sous-Jouarre, France, seen during World War 1. A staff car drives along the village road. Two soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) walk toward the camera. The shell-damaged church dominates the scene. Brief glimpse of soldiers at a communications center. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Trucks experience difficulties on muddy roads in Sanzey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France during World War I. Trucks drive on muddy roads and experience difficulties. Men loaded on trucks. People standing beside the road in a wooded area. Horse carts coming from front, ride on the muddy road. A truck in the background.
Horses return from front for rest in Sonzay, Indre-et-Loire, France during World War I. Horses return from the front for a rest. A grass land in the foreground.
U.S. Troops formally depart from France. Brief ceremonies mark the closing of U.S. Military Command Headquarters at Saint Germain-En-Lay in France. 26 Thousand NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Troops leave France by order of French President De Gaulle. U.S. and French Flags are lowered together.
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