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U.S. General George S Patton visits the Arc De Triomphe in Paris (WW2)

U.S. Army General George S Patton visits France. Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) on the Avenue Champs-Élysées. General Patton and French General Alphonse Juin arrive at the Arc De Triomphe in Paris. He is greeted by officers. Photographers click pictures. The General and other officers salute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He places a wreath at the Eternal Light. The General signs the Golden Book. Soldiers give a gun salute. General Patton salutes the French flag. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, August 7
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020652
Montage of scenes depicting D-day landings and convoys to Normandy in World War II

U.S. Navy officers and sailors aboard a landing craft still at port in England, pose with chart of their destination in Normandy, France, during World War 2. They all raise their caps for the cameraman. U.S. troops fill deck of a large landing craft infantry (film reversed). Views of other landing craft underway. U.S. troops standing aft on a ship. View of a destroyer escort ship. Landing craft underway in moonlight. Barrage balloon visible overhead. A camouflaged Benham class destroyer passing abeam the camera ship. More views of landing craft and barrage balloons. Officer aboard ship using a telescope. A Destroyer escort and another view of the Benham class destroyer. (These color sequences are reversed) Black and White sequence 02:36 to 03:39 shows members of the Canadian North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment approaching and landing on D-day, at La Rive Plage,Bernieres-sur-Mer, France. Scenes are interposed with some of U.S. troops wading ashore at Omaha Beach. At time code 03:40, Troops of the U.S. Army First Division, the "Big Red One," are seen wading ashore on Omaha beach, from Higgins boats of the transport ship, USS Samuel Chase. (APA-26). U.S. soldiers reaching the beach from the surf, as two fall to German gunfire.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020900
The fishing village of Barfleur shortly after the Allied invasion of Europe (WW2)

Allied troops moving forward during the Allied invasion of France in World War II. Crucifix statue in front of the Church of Saint Nicholas (Église Saint-Nicolas, Rue Saint-Nicolas, 50760 Barfleur, France). View of the Church of Saint Nicholas in the fishing village of Barfleur, which had been spared by retreating German forces. French flag on a building. Boats in the harbor. Barrage balloons in the sky. Buildings on the shore.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020908
British soldiers fight the Nazis in Lisieux and General Charles De Gaulle visits Chartres en route to Paris liberation

British soldiers enter the town of Lisieux, France. Armed British soldiers patrol the streets. Soldiers walk past the destroyed buildings. Firing and bombardment. Soldiers and British tanks fire at Nazis hiding in the town. A French civilian woman brings a glass of water and a pitcher to a prone British soldier firing at German positions from a street corner. Soldier prone firing a machine gun. People in the town of Chartres, a center of resistance. A young woman resistance soldier talks to an Allied French soldier. French General Charles De Gaulle and other officers greeted by the town on August 23, 1944. De Gaulle addressed the town to commend their resistance. De Gaulle looks at the Chateau de Rambouillet in Rambouillet, France, from where he directed the French armored divisions in their push to Paris. Views of the palace, gardens, and a lake at the Chateau de Rambouillet with Charles De Gaulle standing beside the lake. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021091
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel at the Tuileries Garden and the crowded Rue De Rivoli streets in Paris.

Important landmarks in Paris, France. The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel at the Tuileries Garden (Pl. de la Concorde, 75001 Paris, France) in Champs-Élysées. People pass under the Arc. Traffic on the streets of Rue De Rivoli. People walk on the street. Cars and buses move along. A man, woman, and a child on a tandem bike ride through the traffic. People wait to cross the street.

Date: 1956, October 9
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021103
German troops advance and Allied troops evacuate during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War 2. Allied soldiers with a white flag in a car. Soldiers on foot and in cars. Soldiers on streets and on bicycles. Two officers talk to each other on the steps of a building. They leave the venue in a car. Civilians talk to soldiers in trucks. A German soldier guards French and British Prisoners of War (POWs). Allied prisoners marched on the street. An animated map depicts the movement of German troops as they close in on Dunkirk. German soldiers near a barricade on the road. Explosions as buildings are demolished. British sailors and Allied soldiers aboard naval vessels during the Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo). The ships underway at sea. Sailors aboard the ships. German Junker Ju 87 (Stukas dive bomber aircraft) dive-bomb the ships. Point of view shot from beside pilot, inside Ju 87 aircraft, looking through aircraft front windscreen as it dive bombs a large ship. Ships set on fire. Sailors look through binoculars and fire from a ship. Bombs dropped, ships are hit. German aircraft bomb the docks, ships and harbor area. Smoke arises from hit ships off shore. Street fighting on a deserted street. Soldiers take cover from machine gun fire. Smoke due to explosions. Artillery fired under the supervision of senior officers. French and British POWs are marched by Germans. Soldiers talk to the prisoners. The wounded are carried. Bomb damaged buildings and artillery on the streets. Dead soldiers amidst rubble and wreckage in a field. Troops march and advance. Wrecked vehicles by the road. Horses amidst wrecked artillery. Vehicles and buildings on fire. Soldiers push artillery. Dead soldiers. Soldiers stand outside the Renault plant in Boulogne. Soldiers light cigarettes, rest on the streets. Camouflaged tanks and hundreds of British prisoner of war soldiers on the streets guarded by German soldiers. Damaged and wrecked ships off shore. Debris and wreckage strewn on the beach. Abandoned Allied war materiel. A Nazi flag on the beach. British corpses lying around.

Date: 1940
Duration: 6 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021748