The German invasion of France during World War II. German soldiers advance in an area. Damaged equipment on a field. Allied paratroopers being taken as prisoners. Prisoners being made to march. A landing field where a number of aircraft were strafed. A wrecked United States Army Air Force transport aircraft. Interiors of a damaged aircraft. German soldiers in a jeep on a field. An arm insignia of a prisoner reads ' 1st Canadian parachute battalion'. The prisoners being questioned by German officers.
Dead German soldiers in France during World War II. A wrecked bus as French woman look at it. Dead bodies of German soldiers outside the bus after it was bombed by the Allies. Faces of dead German soldiers with blood on it. Interiors of the bus with dead soldiers lying in the bus. A dead soldier lying in grass.
Wrecked vehicles in France during World War II. Artillery pieces as bullock carts move past in the background. Wrecked civilian and military vehicles. A damaged upturned tracked vehicle lies along the road.
Wrecked vehicles in France during World War II. Damaged civilian cars as American soldiers and French partisans look at the cars. A building gaily decorated with American, British and French flags. American soldiers loaded onto trucks and on foot as they move past the civilians. French women wave at the American soldiers.
Wrecked railroad train in France during World War II. Men work on a demolished section of a railroad track and a wrecked locomotive in the background. Demolished buildings in a French town. A wrecked train loaded with torpedoes after it was hit and burned. Torpedoes on ground near the train. German sign on the side of the damaged railroad train.
Allied capture of Cherbourg, France, on June 25th, 1944, in World War 2. German prisoners of war marching under guard, with hands on their heads following surrender. Aerial vies of the Cherbourg harbor, extensively sabotaged by the Germans. Allied engineers working to repair the port. Power shovels, welders, and divers seen at work. Troops moving up the peninsula from Cherbourg. Weapons being distributed to French members of the Maquis guerilla resistance, in Allied occupied areas. French irregular soldiers firing against German forces in mountains, and sabotaging German facilities. Numerous dead bodies of French civilian villagers, killed by a Battalion of the Nazi SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer" (an infantry regiment of 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"), and destroyed buildings in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane where the massacre took place. Temporary stakes marking their graves.
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