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U.S. 96th Aero Squadron mechanics line up Dehavilland DH-4 airplanes on airfield in World War I

Activities of U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Mechanics and soldiers push a DH-4 biplane bomber out of a canvas-covered hangar and onto the airfield. Five DH-4s parked on the grass field. The mechanics and the soldiers push two more DH-4 aircraft into the line at the field. The tails of all the aircraft are painted in the French scheme of vertical blue-white-red stripes, with the blue forward.

Date: 1918, July 26
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070256
De Havilland DH-4 bomber preparing to depart on a mission from a French airfield, in World War I.

U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. A gunnerchecking out the Scarff ring mounting of his Lewis machine gun in the rear cockpit of a De Havilland DH-4 bomber aircraft. His pilot approaches the aircraft and gets in the cockpit. The pilot and the gunner both shake hands with an American officer who reaches up to them from the ground. Then they settle down in their cockpits for engine start. Three ground crewmen with hands linked together, pull the propeller through several times before they manage to start the aircraft engine. They move away from the aircraft as the engine fires. They pull chocks from in front of the wheels and the aircraft taxis onto the airfield. The airplane tail displays the French blue-white-red vertical paint stripe scheme.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070259
Presentation ceremony of French tricolor flag to Mayor of Cherbourg after Allied Invasion of Europe in World War II

Allied troops in Cherbourg after the Normandy Landings on D-Day in World War 2 . The first official ceremony in France after the Invasion of France. Allied soldiers lined up. A statue in the background. Dignitaries outside a building. U.S. General Joseph Collins presents the French tricolor flag to the Mayor of Cherbourg. Soldiers of the 7th Corps in clean uniforms for the ceremony. French people on the street. Colonel of the Signal Corps with war correspondents including Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Ernie Pyle, Burt Brandt, Cecil Cons, and John Leglinsee

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020906
German soldiers fire across a canal and put out a fire in a cathedral in Rouen (WW2)

War ruins in Rouen, the capital city of Normandy in France, during World War II. A German General survey the city. Smoke from burning buildings. German soldiers fire guns and battle the enemy across the canal. Soldiers take cover behind sandbag barricades. Pillars of a damaged bridge. Soldiers use binoculars to survey the area. They load and fire artillery. Smoke from explosions on either side of a canal. Smoke from burning buildings. Jets of water put out fire in damaged Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Pl. de la Cathédrale, 76000 Rouen, France). Ruins and rubble on the streets. Soldiers clear debris from the streets. They use water hoses to put out the cathedral fire. The damaged structure of the cathedral. Bomb damaged buildings. French prisoners marched on the streets. Military vehicles enter a gate. A sign for Paris beside the gate. The smoke shrouded skyline.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021836
Red Ball Express trucks carry military supplies to the war front (WW2)

Red Ball Express trucks carry military supplies from Cherbourg, France to the front lines in operation during World War II. Red Ball Express trucks disembark from ships on the beachheads of Normandy. War materiel gathered beside trucks. Jerry cans loaded by soldiers. A Military Police (MP) directs Red Ball trucks on the road of a village. Officers discuss plans. Animated map showing Red Ball Express truck round trip route from Cherbourg to the Western Front. Maintenance station signage such as “Check Tires” along the Red Ball Express Road. A man changes truck tire. Red Ball Express truck drivers, including many African American soldiers, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes on their breaks. Men refueling trucks using gasoline stores they carry with them. Allied truck convoy in France. Allied soldiers in French countryside. A brick wall with hole showing truck convoy in the background.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029663
LST 282 burns as a result of radio-controlled flying bomb released from German Dornier aircraft on D-Day of Operation Dragoon.

Night view from behind a building wall. LST 282 (Landing Ship Tank) burns as a result of radio-controlled flying bomb released from German Dornier approximately 2100 hrs on D-Day of Operation Dragoon invading southern France. Location is Green Beach near Saint Raphael France. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 15
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051847