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Burning and damaged buildings in a French town during World War II.

A damaged French town in 1944during World War II. Smoke rises from a burning building in the far background. The burning French building. French civilians remove their belongings. Wounded and injured people are evacuated. A damaged railroad station with wrecked locomotives.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061140
French Marshal Philippe Petain in a car flanked by motorcycle police drives on the streets in a French town as a crowd cheers.

French Marshal Philippe Petain in a French town in 1944 during World War II. Philippe Petain in a car flanked by motorcycle police drives on the streets as a crowd cheers. Damaged buildings alongside a street. Petain shakes hands with civilians. Petain speaks into a microphone and addresses the crowd.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061142
The Ford factory at Gennevilliers used by the Germans bombed during World War II.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in and around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The former Ford factory at Gennevilliers used by the Germans for military vehicles production and maintenance, bombed on June 22, 1944. The aerial attack destroyed an estimated 50% of the factory. Allied officers inspect the bombed factory. Damaged structures, tanks, machinery and war equipment inside the factory.

Date: 1945
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021873
Damaged locomotives and repair installation at the Reims locomotive repair shops after Allied bombings during World War II.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Reims locomotive repair shops attacked by the U.S. Eghth Air Force in May-June 1944. Allied soldiers and workers on tracks inside the repair shops. Damaged locomotives. Wrecked turntables and repair installations lie partially buried in debris. Men near an overturned locomotive on tracks. They survey the damage. Damaged equipment and material.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021878
Renaming of Paris Street in honor of Général Philippe Leclerc de Hautclocque

French official arrives by car to officiate at ribbon-cutting ceremony renaming the Avenue d'Orleans as Avenue du General Leclerc, in honor of Général Philippe Leclerc de Hautclocque, who formally liberated Paris, entering along this street, at the head of his French 2nd Armored Division, in 1944. The French official is greeted by a young woman wearing a sash. Members of the French 2nd Armored Division are seen holding unit flags. The official unveils the new street sign on the corner of a building decorated with tricolor bunting. A member of the French 2nd Armored Divison poses on top of a sherman tank, parked in the square. The official cuts a ribbon..

Date: 1948
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038979
United States soldiers attack German pillboxes outside Cherbourg, France (WW2)

United States soldiers prepare to fire artillery at pillboxes in Cherbourg dock area during World War 2. Artillery fires at German pillboxes. The artillery being fired appears to be QF 6 pounder 7cwt Mk 2 anti-tank guns. Artillery being fired at point-blank range in the outskirts of Cherbourg. United States soldiers fire artillery from behind a barbed wire fence. More shells are loaded into the artillery gun. Shells scattered on the ground as soldiers prepare their rifles. Soldier loads shells into artillery. American soldier fires Browning M1917 .30 calibur heavy machine gun from a house window towards pillboxes. U.S. Army soldiers with machine gun and automatic rifle. A soldier aims his Browning M1919 machine gun at German soldiers. German troops emerge from pillbox, holding a white flag as they surrender to American forces. American soldier frisks a captured German soldier. American troops frisk German prisoners. German prisoners are made to march out of the dock area with their hands up.

Date: 1944, June 26
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079294