American troops welcomed in village, by Nuns and children, and in Paris, France, in August, 1944 during liberation of Paris. December 16, 1944, German counterattack causes American casualties. Dead and wounded shown being picked up on stretchers. American troops advancing across fields.Tanks and burning buildings. Americans fight in streets of town and from trenches, with snow on ground. Chaplain prays over body of fallen American soldier. More views of U.S. wounded on stretchers. German officers led by General Manteuffel planning actions. German home front civilian guards (Volkssturm national militia) seen on parade. German Tiger II tanks of s.Pz.Abt.503 parade in a training area. German SS troops advance during the Battle of the Bulge. German "buzz bomb" shown in flight. Smoke rises from buzz bomb strike on town. (World War II period).
World War 1 victory parade in Paris, France after signing of Armistice and end of World War I. Allied cavalry units, infantry units and band march down the Champ Elysees with Arc de Triomphe in the background. French soldiers carry American flags at the victory celebration and parade.
Opening slate (in French): French women during the War (World War 1). Women at work in France during the First World War. French women load hay onto a horse drawn cart. A woman takes care of a horse. Woman leads two pairs of yoked oxen out of a barn. They make the cattle plow a field. A woman with a pair of horses as they till the soil. A group of women collect harvest from a field. Women bring buckets of water from a pond.
French soldiers in France during World War 1. French women in a street. A girl pins up a medal onto a French soldier. Women knit as they sit around a table in a building. Line of French soldiers receive clothes from women working at a counter during a snow storm. A woman in a war manufacturing helmet factory works on a helmet. She weaves straps into the inside of a French Army helmet. She removes a pencil from her hair bun and writes out a note of support to the future recipient of the helmet, and then she tucks it under an inside flap of the completed helmet. Nuns outside a cinema hall hand out treats to soldiers and soldiers enter the movie theatre hall. Women nurses and nuns care for young children and help them at a gathering where they receive flags and toys. Soldiers look on as a girl sings with an amputee. A man and woman couple walk together in a field. The woman helps the man put on and tighten an arm prosthesis, and then the man ably helps saw a log of wood. Women put flowers on French graves in a field. French soldiers sleep in a trench as one soldier stands watch.
United States 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, in France during World War II. Soldiers of the 314th Infantry Regiment load onto assault boats at the bank of river Seine. Men row across the river in assault boats. The boats being manned by United States 304th Engineers Division.
United States 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, in France during World War II. Soldiers of the infantry regiment cross river Seine in assault boats. The boats approach the bank. Men pull a rope as the boats come ashore. Major General Ira C. Wyche and Brigadier General Greer watch as the men cross the river. Soldiers march inland after crossing the river..
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