German troops in France during World War 2. A map depicts Frankreich (France). A sign at a line of demarcation reads 'Demarkationslinie'. A soldier checks the time in his watch. German tanks, trucks, and motorized infantry enter the former "Zone libre," effectively ending its free status and militarily occupying it. They roll through French villages toward the South Coast of France. The convoy crosses a check post. The convoy on a long winding road through hills. German forces enter the city of Narbonne. Soldiers and tanks on the city streets. Shops on a sidewalk. Civilians including children watch the Germans. Soldiers sit, read and rest. Military vehicles on a tree flanked path. Children look around. Soldiers seated in a line on a railing. Military equipment in rail carriages. A sign for Marseille. The convoy enters the city. Civilians watch the convoy. Tanks on the streets. Soldiers on tanks as they cross the triumphal arch Porte d'Aix (Porte Royale) in the city.
Germans advance through bomb damaged areas in France during the Battle of France in World War II. Ruins and rubble in a town in France from bombing.German soldiers use binoculars to survey the area amidst the ruins of a camp commune. Soldiers fire machine guns. Explosions among the ruins below. Soldiers take cover and fight in the ruins. Burning and abandoned tanks. Soldiers fire at ships from a cliff. They fire antiaircraft guns. Boats in the Saint-Valery-en Caux port Soldiers sit and wait. Parked military vehicles. A German officer talks to English and French Generals. They discuss documents. A large number of soldiers in line. They rest in a field. A German convoy advances. Soldiers on motorcycles cross a field. They dig on a town street. Tanks on the streets. A sign board for the distance to Paris and Grand Fitz James. Soldiers rest and guard a group of French soldier prisoners of war. German soldiers fire artillery. Troops cross over pontoons.
The German advance towards Paris in France during Battle of France in World War II. A map of northern France depicts the German advance towards and attack on Paris. German soldiers fire artillery. Soldiers load shells and fire antiaircraft guns. Explosions due to the artillery fire. German infantry and motorized units advance through French villages and destroyed French fortifications. Smoke from burning buildings in a town. A sign reads 'Dubo Dubon Dubonnet'. Ruins on the deserted streets. German troops on foot, horses, bicycles, and motorbikes advance. Soldiers clear rubble from the streets. Wrecked French artillery. German soldiers fire from foxholes and bunkers. A damaged tank barrel. The Germans advance towards Paris. A sign gives the distance for Paris. Soldiers march with rifles. Explosions around the troops. Machine guns fired. Soldiers take cover in the battlefield. Officers near a military truck at a camp. A sandbagged area nearby.
Film opens with date: 10 May 1940 (date of the German invasion of Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium, in World War 2). Huge precise formation of German soldiers is shown. Alternating closeups of individual soldiers and camera pans across the formation. Animated map shows Germany, Belgium, France and Holland, plus Rein River, City of Lille, and Paris. It shows positions of English and French armies, ostensibly attacking from France, across Belgium and Holland, toward the German Ruhr region (but actually moving to repulse the German offensive). Belgian troops advancing on motorcycles past sandbagged buildings. The French border being opened followed by many French military vehicles, including trucks, trailers, artillery pieces, and some French Lorraine 37 tracked vehicles. A steam locomotive pulls a boxcar troop train. French and British Expeditionary Forces seen on the train. Many of the Allied soldiers sit in its doorways with their legs dangling. A French Char B1 heavy tank rumbles along a road. French light tanks. More views of Allied troops, including French Colonials, marching through towns and villages. Closeup of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, General the Viscount Lord Gort, with another British Commander. British troops in armored personnel carriers. British troops participating in Battle of France seen marching as someone is heard singing in background, about "washing day on the Siegfried line." Several British self-propelled heavy guns in motion. German army engineers detonating a charge followed by large explosions.
Franklin D Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of Navy during World War 1. United States soldiers aboard a transport ship leave for Europe (France) during World War I. View of young Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking. United States Army troops disembarking in France. Shipbuilding operations underway in the United States. Views of partially completed warship hulls in a line at a shipyard. World War 1 trench fighting scenes. Soldiers fire guns and throw hand grenades. Views of American and German troops engaging in battle. Explosions and dirt flying. Soldiers taking cover in protection of trench. Germans fire machine gun. Many short views of First World War combat. A biplane aircraft falls after being shot down and crashes into the earth. Battle scenes with body of soldier falling back into a trench and a Renault FT tank approaching a trench line. Narrator indicates Roosevelt keeps track of the United States forces and went to France to meet General Foch. U.S. Navy 12 inch gun mounted on rail platform fires.
War correspondents gathered in England, awaiting D-Day and preparing to enter France after the upcoming D-Day invasion in World War 2. War correspondents and soldiers at a camp on the South Coast of England. Jeeps, tents and men near baggage. Various correspondents meet up with each other. A correspondent walks amidst rows of tents with an officer. An officer gives a correspondent a shovel to defend himself. Correspondent Larry LeSueur smokes a cigarette. Various correspondents including Jack Thompson of the Chicago Tribune, Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Ernie Pyle, Associated Press' Larry O'Riley and Wharton Becker. They bid farewell to each other. A correspondent wearing a leather jacket with "War Correpondent" labeled epaulets on the shoulders. Clark Lee of INS and Chicago Daily News' William Stoneman next to a trailer attached to a military jeep. The war correspondents climb into a military truck. The truck passes through small British towns. People shop for vegetables in a crowded market place or a British town. Destroyed buildings in the town of Plymouth seen as the correspondents exit the rear of the Army vehicles.
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