During invasion of France, in World War II. Allied troops land and advance in Normandy on D-Day. U.S. troops run across a beach. Troops disembark from assault boats and wade through surf toward beach. Soldiers rescue wounded soldiers from water. Wounded soldiers being helped out from water. Medics treat wounded soldier on beach. British troops arrive on beach with a team of medics. British troops advance inland. LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) unload troops in the background. Allied reinforcement troops arrive on beach. Heavy engineering equipment on beach. Allied bombers drop bombs over enemy targets. From edited film produced in 1947.
Allied flyers (mostly American) who escaped from internment in Switzerland, pose in front of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport airplane, at Annecy Airfield, France, during World War 2. A C-47 seen taking off from the field.
The Battle of Somme in France during World War I. French General Joseph Joffre and French President Raymond Poincare with other French officials at the front. French General Paul Pau inspects French troops on front lines. The troops lined up holding flags.
English tanks captured at Cambrai, France during World War I. German motor troops stand and talk near a captured British Mark IV heavy tank in Cambrai. Troops get into tank and tank is being driven on field. British tank crosses a trench. Tank advances. German soldier gets out of tank.
British tanks captured at Cambrai, France by German forces during World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany arrives and inspects a British Mark IV heavy tank. Tank is driven and a French lamp post is destroyed.
Opening scene shows the commercial ship, Imerethie II, tied up to a pier at her homeport, Marseille, France, on a misty day. Camera pans along the wharf briefly, where small boats are tied. Large ships are seen moving in the port in the background throughout the film. Scene shifts to another area of the port where a German Zerstörer 1934 class destroyer is seen docked. Crew members are seen moving about on deck. Next, two armed Spanish civil war combatants, in utility coats and stocking caps are seen in closeup, stepping up to a dock and taking up positions as walking sentries. Two more Spanish combatants are also seen, one, possibly a flier, wearing a Nationalist officer's side cap.
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