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Massive concrete bulwark erected to protect Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, France (WW2)

Views of the Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral (Pl. du Cardinal Luçon, 51100 Reims, France) in Rheims, France, during World War II. A massive concrete wall has been erected in front as a bulwark to protect the cathedral from war damage. An equestrian statue of Saint Joan of Arc is seen in front of the Cathedral. Various views of the cathedral.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055077
United States soldiers search POWs in destroyed Periers, Normandy (WW2)

Captured German soldiers with raised hands are searched in Periers, Normandy, France during World War II. A young German prisoner wearing an oval-shaped dog tag (erkennungsmarke) being searched. A soldier flips through the pages of a booklet seized from a captured German prisoner. An M7 priest 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 with soldiers moves in front of the ruins of Église Saint-Pierre (Place du Général de Gaulle, 50190 Périers, France). Soldiers in tank passes by destroyed houses on devastated road.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079417
Allies advance following the invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II

Film opens showing map of Normandy, France. Next, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is seen seated in a jeep, conversing with an officer, standing nearby, who makes notes in a pad. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley sits in the back of the jeep, and a Major General stands beside the jeep. Other officers stand around in the background. Eisenhower converses with the Major General. Scene shifts to closeup of Lieutenant General George Patton. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers fly overhead, part of a two thousand plane bombarding the Saint-Lô area on July 25, 1944. Closeup of a B-24 dropping bombs and views of bombs exploding on the ground. American M4 Sherman tanks and infantrymen advancing after the bombardment. U.S. troops riding atop an M8 Greyhound armored cars and M4 tanks. Animated map shows the extent of U.S. advance from Saint-Lô encompassing the entire Breton Peninsula. Then, it shows American forces swinging North and around to the West, trapping German forces at Falaise. A German Tiger tank, camouflaged in shrubbery, moving along a road, followed by motorcycle, and trucks full of German soldiers retreating from the trap at Falaise. Brief closeups of German soldiers in some of the vehicles. A German FW-190 fighter-bomber seen flying very fast and low toward the camera. An explosion. View of British and Canadian soldiers coordinating in the field, further South of Caen, working to keep German armor surrounded in the area. A battery of British heavy artillery guns firing from camouflaged positions. An American 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (called M7 Priest by the British) firing from a wooded area. Shells exploding in the distance. German soldiers sheltering from the shelling. Fires burning. Allied jeep driving past knocked out German tanks. A field ambulance leads a long column of German prisoners of war. They march four abreast with hands clasped over their heads. A convoy of Allied heavy duty trucks bringing supplies from beachheads to the front lines. (World War 2; WW II; WW2)

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041993
Docks, warehouses and port facilities damaged during the Liberation of Marseilles, France following Operation Dragoon

Allied Invasion of Marseilles, Southern France following Operation Dragoon. 23 August 1944. French forces enter Marseilles and engage any remaining Germans. French Algerian soldiers of the 3rd Algerian Division in firing positions. Soldiers walk to Fort Saint Nicolas. Body of executed man in Fort Saint Nicolas. Dead and wounded soldiers. Street defenses set up by enemy. Gun emplacements. Docks,warehouses and port facilities deliberately destroyed by retreating German forces. Part of ship with swastika visible just above water line. Bomb damaged hangers and aircraft at airport. Wrecked French planes with German markings. Liberated Marseillaise cheer Algerian troops. Officers converse. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072835
Explosions of the German ammunition stores at an island in Saint Malo harbor during Allied Invasion of France.

Allied Invasion of France during World War II. German ammunition stores at an island in Saint Malo harbor are exploded on 17 August 1944. Allied troops explode stores as Germans refuse to surrender. Large smoke column arises.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073005
United States Army 82nd Airborne Division soldiers enter Saint-Marcouf, France in World War II

82nd Airborne Division soldiers advance along a corridor beside the wall of an elevated cemetery in Saint- Marcouf, France during World War 2. They rest beside a wall. Local residents come their way. Rubble of destroyed buildings in the background. The French residents greet and converse with the American soldiers. Two Frenchmen point in a direction up and away. Remains of bombed out rural buildings. Soldier seen near a religious statue that still stands in rubble at front of a destroyed house. As the American troops proceed, they pass a sign reading, "Saint-Marcouf." A bombed out building. A triangular sign reading,"Touring-Club de France," with "Dunlop" written below it. View, from beside a wheeled cart, of troopers resting, in front of a wall in the relatively unscathed town center of Saint-Marcouf. 82nd Airborne patch clearly seen on left shoulder of some troopers. American trooper stooped down to speak with small French boy and girl in front of a house in town. Closeup of the little girl. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944, June 8
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038158