German soldiers in France. Sldiers repair autos, work on tanks, weld parts, and fix tire tubes. A soldier washes clothes in boiling water, then under a hand pump. Soldiers hang clothes on aline to dry. Soldiers organize papers and clothes. They stitch and sew on machines. Repair and stitch boots. (World War II period).
German soldiers relax in occupied France during World War 2. Soldiers play music directed by a conductor. Soldiers play leap frog on a beach. German soldiers splash around and swim in a lake. Soldiers relax with nurses at a hospital. Nurses among soldiers. German soldiers relax at an outdoor cafe here (with no sign of any French people around) and they drink draft beer poured by two women. A German soldier talks to a little boy. German soldiers observe the view over a river and ravine from an elevated position.
German airmen mechanics perform maintenance inspections on a Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in occupied France, during World War 2. They rearm it with machine gun ammunition and install a gun camera. One ground crewman paints a tally mark, for a mission, on the aircraft tail. A German flier feeds a pet bear, while others look on. Another pilot plays with two pet dogs, while being photographed by a movie camera (cameraman seen only by his shadow). German soldier reports the sighting by telephone. German pilot dons life vest and climbs into the cockpit of his Bf-109. Several Bf-109s take off. Gun camera view from German fighter aircraft firing from headon and below, at a British Spitfire aircraft. German pilots on the ground look up as two British Spitfire aircraft buzz low over nearby buildings. Group of German airmen gather to watch dogfights between German and British aircraft. Closeup of several looking up and pointing. Gun camera footage of a Spitfire taking headon fire from below and another being shot at from rear and above. A ball of black smoke is seen from an aircraft that has been hit by gunfire. Closeup of German Bf-109 in flight. German Gun camera view of a Spitfire being being hit from behind. Glimpse of two aircraft in close combat followed by one crashing and exploding on the ground. Gun camera view from German aircraft attacking a British Lysander aircraft. Extreme closeup of German ace Adolf Galland in cockpit of his airborne Bf-109. A British Spitfire aircraft sitting where it crash landed in shallow water. Fighter aircraft flying high above in echelon formation. A BF-109 buzzing low over the camera, followed by one taxiing after landing. View of Adolf Galland, stepping from cockpit of his Bf-109, and walking back to base operations along with other pilots who greet him.
U.S. troops in France soon after the Allied Invasion of Europe, in World War 2. An American Army medic in a field. French Farmers stack hay with hay forks. Hay stacks on the field. Big U.S. artillery gun camouflaged in the same field. The artillery fires at German positions while the farmers continue moving hay, uninterrupted.
American troops and war correspondents in France, during World War 2. They visit Mont Saint Michel, a small rocky island at the mouth of Couesnon River in Normandy, separating Normandy and Brittany. View of the island with a monastery at the top. War correspondent Robert Capa (of Life and of Time Magazines) looks on and takes pictures. Military jeeps leave the island. Madam Poulard stands under a sign at her Hotel Poulard. Sign for the Hotel and its reputed omelette. Soldiers on the street. Shops and French flags. GIs at the Benedictine Abbey and steepled church. An old French man points. U.S. Soldiers take a tour of the monastery with a woman guide. Steeples, towers, arches and other architectural features of the abbey and monastery. War correspondents including Charles Collingwood, Chicago Daily News' Helen Kirkpatrick, New Yorker Magazine's Joe Liebling (Abbot Joseph Liebling) and Warden Becker. Helen and Charles pose for the camera. Ernest Hemingway, covering for Colliers Magazine, drinks and talks to Bill Walton. War correspondents including Bill Stringer seated and walking on the street. They visit the monastery and take pictures. Civilians on the streets. Tall sticks in sand placed by German forces around the island to prevent Allied planes from landing at low tide. Three war orphan brothers whose parents were killed at the battle of St Lo, play on the beach as their grandmother looks on. Views of the island and patterns on the sand around the island from the receding waters of low tide. St. Malo, Brittany: Field near Saint Malo. American soldiers bathe and swim in a lake. They fool around in the water, taking a break from battle.
Damage caused during the war between Allied forces and the German troops in France. Wrecked vehicles, artillery and other equipment. Wounded German soldiers. Soldiers carry wounded on a stretcher. German prisoners emerge single and then in small groups. German prisoners at a prison camp built by them for the French. The prisoners sit, stand and talk. A soldier talks to a man. Soldiers talk to a boy who was made a slave after his parents were killed by the Nazis in Ukraine. Prisoners eat and drink.
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