U.S. 3rd Armored Division elements entering towns in France, during World War 2. Sign for town of "Pre En Pail". Group of captured German soldier prisoners of war sitting on side of road. Houses are decorated with French flags. Various vehicles pass along the street, including an M10 Tank destroyer. Tanks and vehicles entering town of Ciral. Sign reads "Ciral". Civilians wave to passing vehicles. American troops on a tank pose with a woman standing next to it. One U.S. Army soldier on the tank holds a little French girl. A French man stands near his daughter as the little French girl poses on a tank holding a homemade American flag.
4th Armored Division enters city of Troyes in France. Smoke rises from wrecked buildings in background. Wrecked German trucks. French civilians destroy German street signs.
Civilian writes on wall "Vive Les Americans" in Troyes, France. Scenes after destruction. Scenes of street signs. French civilians destroy German street signs.
U.S. medical unit set up in town square attends wounded people in Troyes, France. Scene of Town Square. A truck passes a board on the street side: "Troyes".
French people of Nemours, France, punish local women who collaborated with the enemy, during the German occupation in World War II. A woman sits in a chair on a pedestal, as a barber shaves her head in the village square, as crowd of spectators watch. Several other women stand together, awaiting similar treatment.
Views of smoke rising from succession of bomb explosions on the City of Brest, France. (World War II period).
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