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German Luftwaffe fighter aircraft engaging Allied fighters over France in World War II
A flight of three German warplanes flying very low over flat terrain, during World War 2. German pilot in cockpit of his Me-109, taxis out on grass field and takes off. Glimpses of Me-109 followed by FW-190 flying close overhead. Pilot in cockpit. Aerial view of a plane flying beneath a set of contrails overhead. Aircraft engaged in dogfight. Smoke rising from site of an airplane crash. An FW-190 aircraft flying past the camera. Glimpse of German pilot in cockpit. Gun camera footage from German fighter shooting down a British Spitfire with wings painted in D-day white invasion stripes. An airplane falling out of control and crashing into the ground with an explosion and black smoke rising.
German prisoners are marched double time across a field to the prisoner of war enclosure in France (WW2)
U.S. Army troops move on a road with tanks and artillery during World War II. German prisoners are run-marched double time along the road and then across a field. U.S. Army soldiers stand guard with rifles in hands. German POW gathered at prisoner of war enclosure. An American soldier distributes food to the prisoners.
German forces engage in realistic live fire exercises in preparation for defense of France against Allies, WWII
German forces engage in live fire exercises as they prepare to defend against anticipated Allied invasion. German gun crew fires artillery piece. Concealed German soldiers look through binoculars toward coastal terrain. .Soldiers climb hilly terrain behind bushes. Soldiers, in trench, hold their ears as they fire a mortar. Artillery guns beinf fired. Heavy smoke rises up due to explosions. Soldiers communicate through radio. View of Atlantic coast from camouflaged defensive position. Sky is filled with German paratrooper chutes. Paratroopers organizing on the ground and moving as a group. Firing a machine gun. German gun crew fires from concealed position. Crewman wipes shells clean before they are placed in gun. German officer looks through periscope. (World War II period).
General Charles De Gaulle addressing the citizens in France.
Peaceful view of River Seine. Crowds gathered in streets. Tape strung across walks reads: "Honneur aux Forces Francaises de L'Interieur." General Charles de Gaulle walks through huge wreath arch that displays Free French symbolic Cross of Lorraine in white wood on each side of arch. The French tricolor flies from tall flag pole. A huge crowd gathered in a town square. Man with a little girl atop his shoulder. General Charles De Gaulle walks up to a platform in the center of the crowd and waves to them. The General speaks into several microphones. The officers with folded arms listen to the General. A reading 'Tribune Officielle' denotes official seating area. Several men seated on top of an entrance to a building. Several men on bicycles. The people are restrained and quiet, but applaud at the end of the speech.
A U.S. Army reconnaissance patrol in the Village of Bru, France, during World War II
Members of a Reconnaissance patrol, of U.S. soldiers, are seen walking slowly through the small French village of Bru (about 3 miles east of the town of Rambervillers) during World War 2. There doesn't seem to be an established road, as such, but a road sign is erected reading "Bru." A large tree stands nearby. Modest dwellings are seen and a power line pole, as well as a very tall power and/or communications tower. Two soldiers read their notes to another, sitting in an M8 armored car, who reports by radio phone. Another soldier also sits in the armored car. Several army vehicles move along an established road, followed by a jeep, backing along the road, closer to the camera. Closeup of the jeep, stopped in the road, as 3 passenger soldiers look over the area (one using binoculars). The driver seems occupied looking down at the road near the rear of the jeep. A Browning M1919 machine gun is mounted in the jeep. Closeup of soldier with binoculars. Several soldiers walk past a parked jeep. Others stand around the M8 armored car. Glimpse of a soldier standing near the "Bru" road sign. View of narrow tree-lined French country road, on which several soldiers sit on parked jeep. Closeup of them riding on the jeep as it backs along the road. (Reportedly, because the road is narrow, tree lined, and soft on the verges, the Recon vehicles drive backwards into the area, so they can escape quickly if necessary.)
U.S. 7th Army and French FFI during the recapture of Metz, Strasbourg and Belfort in France during World War II.
U.S. 7th Army and French troops recapture French cities during World War 2. French troops parade in Metz. The troops march in formation through the city streets. U.S. Army Major General Walton H. Walker, who led the U.S. Army and the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) in the capture of the city from the Germans. General Walker with other officers walks out of a building. French soldiers stand in a formation during a ceremony in which the city is to be returned to the French. In the official ceremony, General Walker returns the city to French Lieutenant-General Andre-Marie-François Dody, acting for his country.The crowd cheers. The Generals walk away. Scene shifts to Strasbourg, where Provost Marshal McIntyre, of the U.S. 7th Army, accepts the surrender of Two German Battalions (5 thousand troops) from their commanding General. The surrendered German soldiers are lined up in the street. German officers waiting to get into trucks. In another sequence, a sign on a street in Belfort reads 'N.463 Montbeliard'. French 1st Army troops on tanks advance through the streets in Belfort. A sign showing the direction to Belfort Castle. French troops fire at the castle in Belfort. Soldiers behind a wall and an M-3 Stuart tank and an anti-tank gun fire from behind the Theatre Granit building at the Belfort Castle. Explosions occur at places in the castle. An underground tunnel of the Belfort Castle is inspected by a French General. Several officers walking with the General. The French flag hoisted on the castle. U.S.Major General Walker proceeding with officers over a bridge. The officers on a path on a hill. Aerial view of buildings.
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