British soldiers in France. The officers briefs troops. Paratroopers descend through parachutes. The troops stand alongside a road. Paratroopers descend from aircraft. Soldiers in army jeep drive through a field. They load equipment onto vehicles. (World War II period).
British soldiers in France during World War II. British troops in armored vehicles advance on a field. Artillery towed by vehicles. British tanks advance. Soldiers walk on the field with rifles in hands. Dead cattle and dead Germans on field. Tanks move on a dirt road.
British soldiers patrol in a captured village in France. British troops patrol on streets and look for snipers. Damaged and destroyed buildings in the village. British troops move quickly past an exposed area where a church yard wall has been blown open with cemetery grave markers looming in the background. Damaged tanks and vehicles on the streets. British tanks move in the village. (World War II period).
German prisoners relax at prisoner of war enclosure in France during World War II. Dead American soldiers on ground covered with white sheets. German prisoners dig graves for dead American soldiers. U.S. Army troops stand guard as the prisoners dig.
A U.S. Army jeep crosses a Bailey Bridge in France during World War II. Army engineers are still working around the bridge. The jeep passes a bulldozer and a dump truck at the site. Wrecked wooden building in the background. Scene shifts to another Bailey Bridge across a canal. A tractor pulling a construction crane and a truck crosses the bridge, followed by dump truck. Several barges are in the canal, including one with a white star identifying it as an American army barge. Scene changes to the site of a bombed out bridge, where Army Engineers are at work. A damaged cathedral dominates the opposite shore. Camera pans to left where a huge steel truss bridge is seen high overhead. Further left, is the Bailey Bridge, shown earlier, across the canal. Closer view of the Bailey Bridge with construction moving across it. Change of scene shows French General Charles de Gaulle and U.S. Major General Leonard Gerow leaving a building, accompanied by a surrendered German General and followed by some American and French soldiers. After posing for the camera, they turn around and all reenter the building.
Chemical warfare activities of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) in France during World War I. A building and an open compound. United States troops dismantle German delayed-action bombs and gas shells and chemically analyze the mustard gas. A soldier makes a glass. Operation of the delayed-action fuse.
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