French civilians gather on the streets in Luxeuil-Les-Bains, France during World War II. The civilians gather on a street. They hold flags. A board on a wall reads: 'L Escadrille La Payette'. The civilians cheer.
The 101st Airborne division band plays during inspection of 101st Airborne troops in Mourmelon-le-Grand, France (World War II). 101st Airborne soldiers in Class A uniforms march. Marching division band plays. A soldier plays a trumpet. The conductor swings his baton as he leads the marching band.
Local French boys salute the 101st Airborne soldiers in Class A uniforms parading during World War II. A French boy with glasses saluting. More faces of boys watching and saluting at the ceremony. French officers and a priest watch the ceremony and salute. A French officer raise his hand to salute. Generals Eisenhower and Taylor descend from the review stand. A staff car drives away after the event in Mourmelon le Grand, France.
A U.S. Army soldier lays prone in the foreground, looking at a destroyed German tank in flames on the side of the road, three days after the Allied invasion of France in WW2. Smoke billows from the tank. A transport vehicle passes carrying a group of U.S. Army soldiers with rifles. Another smaller vehicle passes by the tank. Closer shots show the tank wreckage left on the road, fire burning on the treads.
A group of passengers waiting to go on board the American ocean liner SS Washington, standing at the port of Le Verdon Sur Mer, Bordeaux France. Passengers leaving France shortly before its fall to Nazi Germany are shown inspected for passport and searched before boarding. A car being hoisted onto the ship. View of the clock tower and loading areas at the port of Le Verdon Sur Mer (subsequently destroyed by Nazi Germany later in the war, in November 1944). Captain Manning standing on the bridge. View of ship SS Washington pulling away from dock. June 1940.
Montage of scenes with soldiers returning to Italy and France at end of World War 1. A large troop ship docked at a port in Italy, carrying returning Italian soldiers. Huge crowd assembled on the wharf. Supplies being unloaded from a ship. A few U.S. soldiers are seen. A field kitchen set up on the wharf and Italian troops being fed. American and Italian flags fly above the wharf shelter roof. Crowds on streets in France. French General Petain enters a car and is given a large bouquet of flowers (which he promptly gives to an officer accompanying him in the front seat of the car). French President Poincare joins Petain in the back seat of the car and they drive away. Scene shifts to the port in Italy, again. Men wave the Italian Naval ensign flag.
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