Free French partisans inspected by General Philippe Leclerc in Paris, France during liberation of Paris. Several soldiers with guns walk in a line on a road. A boy on a bicycle with the soldiers. The walkway near the road lined with trees. A motor vehicle on a road. Buildings in view. Trees on either side of the road. Smoke rises near the building. Trees in view. A tank and some soldiers on the road. French guards in a line on a side of the path. An officer salutes. Two men in front of a motor vehicle salute. General Philippe Leclerc inspects the guards. The General talks to the officer. General Philippe Leclerc holding a swagger stick in his hand as he walks with other officers. (World War II period).
General Charles De Gaulle at the Paris Victory Parade in Paris, France after World War II. The French troops lined on the path. Buildings in view. Huge crowd on the sides of the road. Army band and the guards on one side. General Charles De Gaulle arrives at the ceremony with other officers. The General walks along the road with other American and French officers. A man sets a camera on a tripod stand. The General awards medals to officers. Another man takes pictures with a camera held in a hand. Officers look on. Troops in rows on the other side of the road. Few officers stand at the back and watch the event. Few buildings in view.
Firemen respond to a fire in a new sedan fire engine, and they put out the fire in a building in Paris, France. Fire fighters rush outside a building. The firemen rush to a "fire-engine sedan, which is a sedan car fitted with pumps and equipment attached to the rear of the vehicle, used for putting out fire. The firemen get into the sedan and drive away. The sedan arrives at a fire-stricken building. The firemen get out of the vehicle and take the pump and other equipment from the rear of the sedan, hook up hoses to local fire hydrants, and start putting out the fire. The firemen are seen spraying water from a hose onto the building on fire.
Cab drivers on a strike in Paris, France. The cab drivers move in a group along the streets during a strike due to a rise in the price of gasoline. The cab drivers around an upturned vehicle on the road. The men put the vehicle upright on the road. Policemen arrive and a clash between the cab drivers and the policemen on the street. Several buildings on the sides of the road. Vehicles parked on the roadside.
French troops operating in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, France, during World War 2. Burning buildings in village. The spire of a church. Smoke rising from the burnt areas. A man directs several boys to help fight the fire. Village residents fighting fires with buckets of water. Colonial North African infantry of the French 1st Army accompanied by an M4 Sherman tank on street outside gated official-looking building. They enter through gates cautiously. Elsewhere, a local Frenchman pours glasses of white wine for American soldiers sitting in a jeep. Scene shifts to the French troops, along with a cameraman, who are sheltering under sniper fire, near building. Their M4 tank (named "Marne") also provides some cover. Momentary glimpse of German soldiers taken prisoner.
French 1st Army troops in Colmar, France, during World War 2. Two French officers looking at a map spread on the front part of a jeep. A gun on the jeep. French soldiers lying on the ground and looking through binoculars. A soldier with a gun beside him. Soldiers with automatic rifles lying on the ground and firing. The soldiers among bushes with the guns. The soldiers getting up and running. They lie on the ground. Grenades explode. The soldiers advance forward. A French soldier hurls a grenade and lies on the ground. A phosphorous grenade bursts. The soldiers running through the smoke. The soldiers on the ground.
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