Three P-47s of the U.S. Army Air Corps 66th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, raise dust as they take off from Alto Air Base in Corsica,France, during World War 2. Pilot seen in bubble canopy of late model P-47D, named "Halliburtons Hellion" of the 64th Fighter Squadron, during flight over water. Flights of P-47s in formation maneuvers. A Squadron of P-47s in formation overhead. One P-47 dives. View over P-47 in flight over hilly terrain in Italy. View from a P-47 flying very low over some people with a small truck, examining destroyed vehicles and equipment on the ground
French General Charles De Gaulle and other French officers in Marseilles, France during World War II. General Charles De Gaulle and other officers arrive in Marseilles. Officers salute the General. A man takes pictures. Other officers behind the General. A crowd gathered on the side of the path look on. General De Gaulle salutes. Officers with the General also salute. Trees and building in view. General De Gaulle inspects the French sailors holding rifles standing in a line. General De Gaulle walks with the other officers on a path in front of a building.
General Charles De Gaulle and General Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Paris Victory Parade in Paris, France during World War II. A group of six soldiers march with guns on the road, one of the soldiers holding a flag. The soldier lowers the flag to the front. A large crowd watches. French officers on the side of the road. The French guards with rifles. The French troops march on the road. General Charles De Gaulle, General Dwight D Eisenhower and other officers stand on the side of the road and view the troops march. General De Gaulle and General Eisenhower salute. The French Army band march. Few officers follow. Guards with rifle and one guard with a flag march. The French officers and the crowd on the side of the road watch. A French officer on the road. More troops follow. A group of horsemen in rows march. A motorcade follows. Motorcycles and motor carriages pass on the road. The Generals get into the vehicle. General De Gaulle and General Eisenhower moves past the crowd in the vehicle. The French officers salute the Generals. The crowd cheers. The motor vehicles followed by the motorcycles moves along the road.
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 newly appointed French prefecture of police, Charles Luizet, at his desk in Paris, France. He reads a document and speaks with men in his office. A wounded man in the office. Girls speaks over phones sitting next to the wounded man. A girl types on a typewriter. During Liberation of Paris.
view of a building in Annecy, France, during World War 2. Flags of Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and Poland displayed together. A busy street with many bicyclists. A truck driving on a road carrying a group of American flyers who have escaped internment in Switzerland. The flyers, in civilian clothes, smile and wave at the camera from the back of the truck. Change of scene to front view of the truck arriving at Annecy airfield. some flyers are riding on the fenders and running boards of the truck. view of German prisoners of war clearing stones from a field near the airfield runway. A C-47 transport aircraft landing on the field, in background. The German POWs pose for the camera. Cyclists on a dirt road near the airfield, pause to watch a C-47 taking off. Children on bicycles wave to the camera. View again, of German prisoners clearing stones from the field. Local children looking to the sky for airplanes.
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