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German troops occupy abandoned French positions. Germans launch an airship. World War 2

German troops battle French during World War II Battle of France. German troops advance into areas abandoned by retreating French forces. They probe abandoned trenches and fortifications. German troops rush to prepare their blimp airship for launch. Troops handle airship lines. Crew members prepare to board the airship. The airship in flight, above.

Date: 1940, January
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675074055
Town in French Alps with glacier and surrounding mountains; group of mountaineers starting hike

A town in the French Alps, possibly Chamonix, France. A man stands next to a car parked on a platform at edge of a river. River and mountain in the background. Two women tourists walk with a glacier behind them. A columned building is in foreground. Next scene shows a group of mountaineers or boy scouts and possibly guides with packs heading out on a hike or mountaineering trip in the Alps. Views of mountains and valleys. Women walk through forest. Farmer using horses to harvest grain in a field. (Amateur home movie.)

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074075
U.S. soldiers of the AEF play games of chance behind the lines during World War I

U.S. Soldiers behind the lines in France during World War I. A large group gathers outside a building for a dice game of craps, with many around wagering on the outcomes. . Chickens on a field. Other soldiers engage in some sort of game of chance. Clothes draped on a stone wall for drying. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076718
French General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts from London calling on the French to continue fighting the Germans

View of the French Legion Headquarters in London, with flag at half-mast following the capitulation of France to Germany in World War II. Several French officers, including French Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, who support General Charles de Gaulle and his free French forces, walking on the sidewalk. General de Gaulle enters his Headquarters at St. Stephens House (Present day Norman Shaw Building South, 1 Victoria Embankment, London WC2N 5AQ, United Kingdom) in London, and broadcasts, via the BBC, to the French nation, exhorting them to continue fighting, with their Allies, against the Germans.

Date: 1940, June 18
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077068
Long truck convoy along the Voie Sacrée "Sacred Way '' to Verdun during WWI.

French troops leave Souilly, the headquarters of French Generals Philippe Pétain and Robert Nivelle, for Verdun by trucks during World War 1. Outside Souilly, General Philippe Pétain observes the trucks leaving for Verdun. Trucks drive along the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way”), a road that connects Bar-le-Duc to Verdun (Meuse), France. Long convoy of trucks transport troops, supplies and artillery through the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way ''). Trucks driving along the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way ''). Soldiers disembark from trucks after arriving in Verdun. Soldiers push field artillery attached to a truck.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079178
Indochinese and African colonial soldiers loading shells and boxes into vehicles at a munitions plant (WW1)

An Indochinese gate outside a munitions plant in France during World War I. French troops from Indochina enter through the gate. French officers stand by the gate to watch the soldiers. French Indochinese troops form a crowded line in munitions plant. French Indochinese and African troops in line passing shells to each other and transport them into a train. Troops from various French colonies load boxes into a truck while a French officer watch over them.

Date: 1918
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080351