United States troops stand in formation at U.S. cemetery in France. Soldiers stand with guns raised. Bareheaded troops with bowed heads. Chaplain addresses the soldiers. Soldier plays piano in the ceremony. United States flag at half mast. Soldiers sing. Soldiers fire rifles in the air. They raise their guns. (World War II period).
Generals walk on a field outside U.S. Army encampment in France during World War II. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson visits General Omar Bradley and General George Patton on the field. Secretary Stimson and the Generals converse. They have a formal lunch in a tent. Bradley and Patton pose and converse with local Commander, a Brigadier General.
Soldiers carry the body of a dead American on a stretcher in France. They place it before other covered dead bodies. They process the dead body. Tags and contents of pockets removed and placed in a bag. The body covered and the soldiers leave. (World War II period).
The Jayhawk cemetery outside St Mere Eglise in France. Trees in the background. Men walk in the cemetery.
U.S. Fourth Infantry Division in Normandy, France, during World War 2. A sign on highway N.13 points to Montebourg 8.9Km and Cherbourg 34.9km, indicating their location as just north of Sainte Mere Eglise, as they advance following the Allied Normandy invasion in World War 2. A knocked out German Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault gun is seen on a road next to some power lines. Closeup of the Stug III with two shell holes in it. Fourth Infantry soldiers in a jeep drive past another destroyed Stug III, as they make their way through the town of Montebourg. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer is parked on the road behind. Scene shifts to a jeep displaying a red cross flag carrying medics along a road past several U.S. soldiers standing near a cemetery containing old gravestones. Another knocked out Stug III is seen. Two American soldiers, with rifles, ride through a deserted town on horses, followed by another soldier on a motorcycle. Street sign shows distance to Ravenoville as 6.8km and to La Mer as 9.7km. Closeup of one of the mounted soldiers.
With the 82nd Airborne Division in the days following D-Day. Dead bodies of the German soldiers at a field in France. Location is vicinity of Amfreville-Gourbesville, and west of the Merderet River. U.S. Army soldiers talk among themselves. Dead bodies of German soldiers lie near abandoned gun. French civilians load bodies into a truck, including the body of a U.S. Army soldier. United States Army soldiers in jeeps, trucks and motorbikes pass on the street. Civilians pick up a dead body beside a road. (World War II period).
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