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Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid on German occupied port of Dieppe France.

Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid, an allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France. Allied aircraft loading bombs and preparing at dawn. Pilot enters cockpit and takes off for attack on Northern coast of France. Allied Commandos on boat mostly consisting of Canadians climbing onto ship. Close up of "commando" patch and Cross of Lorraine Free France patch on uniform. Allied aircraft flying over ships. Map showing Dieppe as destination. Radio operator speaking aboard ship. Black smoke from ship smoke stack as it speeds on water. Fighter planes in air and explosion in water. Convoys firing and shells ejected from ship artillery. Field and village shops on fire. Allied Army soldiers marching German Prisoners of War with hands up. Allied soldier with dirty face smiling. Wounded French and Canadian soldiers smiling and then walking up gang plank at dock, some helped by others. Wounded soldier on stretcher is given a cigarette. Sign reads 'Dieppe' Sign surrounded by barbed wire reads, "Defense de passer-Betreten verboten" (No Passing-Entering Prohibited). French and Canadian prisoners with hands held up behind barbed wire. Captured allied boats with names, "Calgary" and "Beefy." Floating abandoned allied landing craft at beach. Allied helmets washed by surf at beach.

Date: 1942, August 19
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039120
German tanks cross Somme river in France on a bridge

View of Church in a French town during Battle of France. A German truck enters a French city. Street sign identifies Merville, France. German Pz.38t and Pz.II tanks cross Somme river in France on a bridge. Early model German StuG III tank destroyer seen firing. A French Char B1 tank is hit and its crew evacuates the tank, with the French soldiers surrendering to German soldiers nearby. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, June 5
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041501
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler meets Phillippe Henri Petain, Pierre Laval and Francisco Franco during a meeting in France.

Meeting with Petain, Laval, and Franco in France October 24, 1940 during World War II. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler meets with Prime Minister of France Phillippe Henri Petain, French politician Pierre Laval, and Spanish Head of State Francisco Franco in France. Petain gets out of car and shakes hands with Foreign minister of Germany Joachim Von Ribbentrop. Petain crosses train tracks and shakes Hitler's hand. They are being photographed. Hitler on train with a leading member of the Nazi party Hermann Goering and military officers; Hitler laughs. Train moves past a saluting officers at Hendaye station, close to French-Spanish border. Town signs. Hitler and officers at a platform as they await arrival of Franco. Spanish train pulls up and Franco gets off and he and Hitler warmly shake hands. Hitler salutes down line of Spanish officers and Franco salutes German honor guard. Hitler and Franco board a train.

Date: 1940, October 24
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047358
Pierre Laval sentenced to death after found guilty in France after World War II

Trial of Pierre Laval charged with high treason in France. View of the Palais de Justice courthouse (10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris, France) in Paris, France. Pierre Laval defends himself during the trial. Many people gathered to watch the trial. He is sentenced to death after he is found guilty on October 9.

Date: 1945, October 9
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053378
Strategic Secret Intelligence teams set up missions and give instructions in radio operations in the southeast France.

Strategic Secret Intelligence teams operating with the 7th Army in the southeast France during World War II. Mountains in the eastern France. Animated map of France shows U.S. 7th Army driving in Bourgoin. Secret Intelligence teams and motor cars. Teams set up missions. A radio jeep makes a contact with Strategic Secret Intelligence headquarters. 7th Army officers look at a map. 7th Army soldiers drive along streets. People standing on both sides wave at them. Soldiers seated in a jeep surrounded by French people. The soldiers talk to citizens. Officers standing outside a building smoke. Large crowds gather and wave at the soldiers. They try to get autographs of the soldiers. Children run behind a jeep.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058169
French tanks and troops advance through towns and villages in France during World War II.

French troops and equipment move along the Siegfried Line in France during World War 2 Battle of France. French troops and tanks advance through a small village during occupation of France. (Renault UE Chenillette armoured carriers seen at seconds 26-37). The tanks and the troops advance across a field. A view of the village with smoking chimneys. Nazi signs on the walls of a village. Trucks and troops move through a town. Horses lined up outside a building. A damaged wooden structure. Wrecked German vehicles and equipment. An ambulance and a hospital. Soldiers look at a collection of teller land mines. They come down a hill. The soldiers on the top of a fortification along the Siegfried Line.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059057