The First Army Signal Service Headquarters, Executive and Communication Section in France during World War 2. A soldier takes a message from the check post at the entrance. He delivers the dispatch message to the 'Master Message Center'. View of an American cipher machine ( SIGABA or Converter M-134 or ECM Mark II, akin to a German enigma machine) used to encipher or encrypt the message. Another soldier decodes the incoming messages and encodes the outgoing messages using an automatic code machine. Soldiers operate teletypes, wirelesses, telephones and radios at the Headquarters. Officers near telephone carrier equipment that provides 7 channels in all and has 2 ground simplex circuits. A messenger plane lands near the Headquarters. The pilot hands over a map to the messenger. The map is cleared through the Message Center, sent by facsimile to Intelligence. Officers then forward the information to the artillery. The designated target area on the map. Soldiers fire artillery and shell the target area.
Repair of German-controlled railroads and bridges in occupied France during World War II. French laborers (slave labor) rebuild railroads. Laborers lay tracks. Stationary rail cars on tracks. Laborers dig and excavate near tracks. Reconstruction of railway bridges. French laborers work on a bridge. They weld and assemble parts. The bridge pillars under construction. Aerial cranes used for construction. An armored German train moves across a reconstructed bridge. A Nazi Swastika flag on the engine. The train steams into Paris' Gare du Nord. German officers and soldiers in the rail cars. German officers greet the soldiers on arrival.
German troops advance to target Allied landings in France during World War II. A damaged sign post reads 'Caution. Enemy in Sight!'. German Army panzer division troops advance under cover of artillery fire. Soldiers take cover. German stick grenaded or stick hand grenades (Stielhandgranate) on the ground near soldiers in a wooded area. Soldier readies a Panzerfaust weapon. Explosions on the battlefield. Wrecked Allied tanks and vehicles on the road. Soldiers load shells and fire artillery. Camouflaged artillery fired. Soldiers in the undergrowth. Soldiers greet each other and talk. German Panzer tanks advance. Black smoke due to explosions. Soldiers use small arms and flamethrowers during night fighting. Scene changes to coast, with view of Allied ships and craft seen off shore from German Atlantic Wall fortifications. German soldiers behind defense lines and fortifications on the beach. Smoke rising from ships off shore. A German officer inside a fortification bunker surveys the beach and ships at sea using binoculars.
German Schutzstaffel (SS) Hitler Youth advance near Bayeux in France during World War II. German soldiers advance supported by tanks. Soldiers on camouflaged tanks. German Panzer IV tanks and armored vehicles advance past immobilized Allied tanks. German tanks and infantry move pass abandoned Allied tanks and equipment. German troops fire small arms. Soldiers move towards and attack a French village. Street fighting in the village. Soldiers fire machine guns amidst ruins. Bomb damaged buildings. Smoke due to explosions.
German soldiers and French civilians in occupied France during World War II. German officers and soldiers with French civilians in a French town. German soldiers distribute food to French civilians. People stand in line for food. Elderly men, women and children take food. Food distributed from trucks and vans. French civilians in tents. Soldiers serve bread loaves over a counter. Bread on the counters. Relief workers serve distribute food. Civilians including children in lines. French POWs (Prisoners of War) at work. They drill, break stones and do construction work. German troops gathered to welcome German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. Hitler arrives, gives a Nazi salute and greets the troops. The soldiers cheer as he waves to them.
Germans advance during the Battle of France in World War II. German officers and soldiers look on as infantry, artillery, tanks and other military vehicles move across a pontoon bridge. German Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch talks to officers. Soldiers in the pontoons and rafts. French prisoners wearing rain coats. Panzer division troops and tanks advance on a road through fields.
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