Tractors and plows made in a French factory. A manufacturing plant. Worker inspects a Lanz Bulldog tractor. Tractors lined in a field. Men drive the tractors ahead for work. Workers plow a field. Unassembled parts of tractors and plows at the manufacturing plant. A train car loaded with tractor and plow parts. Men operate a wheat cutter to harvest wheat in a field.
August 1944: U.S. soldiers get off a Landing Craft on the French coast. Soldiers on U.S. battleships. U.S. officers discuss among themselves. Soldiers move across the beach. Soldiers sit outside an abandoned unfinished German pillbox. They examine German artillery. A camouflaged German gun IMPLACEMENT. A U.S. Landing Craft hit by a German radio controlled flying bomb. The charred and destroyed craft on the beach. Soldiers unload heavy equipment and vehicles including jeeps and tanks from Landing Crafts. U.S. battleships in the background. Blimps in the sky. Soldiers move across a street. Soldiers in trucks. Engineers construct an airstrip through a vineyard. Heavy machinery and equipment used to remove the rubble and bushes, as well as to level the ground. Military trucks and vehicles on the road. (World War II period).
Women leaders of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). French women patriots Marquis de Chabannes La Palice and Madame AC Staehling. Both women being interviewed by several men. The women seated at tables. They smoke cigarettes while giving the interview. The interviewers seated around the two women.
French soldiers unload containers of ETO Blood Bank from an aircraft onto a military truck. The military truck passes under a board which reads 'Entrepot Frigorifique Des Halles Certsales.' Soldiers put blood bottles into containers. Doctor inserts a drip into French soldier's arm and checks the flow of blood in the drip. Instrumental soundtrack in background. (World War II period).
View of damaged French railroad yard and destroyed rail track on a bridge. Destroyed rail tracks, damaged trains and electric pole can be seen. French workers weld girders, repair rail engines and rail tracks at a devastated French railroad yard. Workers repair the rail track on a bridge. Instrumental soundtrack in background.
Allied armies face rain and storm. General Eisenhower gets into army jeep with officers. Soldier salutes him and gives hand signals for vehicles to pass by. General Eisenhower reviews soldiers and inspects a unit of the 29th Infantry Division. Army vehicles drive past a flooded highway affecting the 3rd and 7th army routes on their drives to Metz and Strasbourg. The flooded Moselle River (or Mosel) expanded from 50 to 1500 yards. Soldiers drag a plane to shore that brings medical supplies. The 90th Infantry Division troops cross Moselle River in assault boats. Soldiers construct a raft. Tank moves in heavy waters. Wrecker of a tank battalion overturned in an irrigation ditch along with a 2.5 ton truck. Truck towed from ditch. Damaged buildings and broken bridge. French division gunners stand guard at emplacements amidst an early winter snow. Machine gun position. Infantry men line up for a chow meal. Vehicles covered with snow. Army trucks plow slippery roads. Telephone wires strung pole to pole. (World War II period).
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