Important landmarks in Paris, France. The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel at the Tuileries Garden (Pl. de la Concorde, 75001 Paris, France) in Champs-Élysées. People pass under the Arc. Traffic on the streets of Rue De Rivoli. People walk on the street. Cars and buses move along. A man, woman, and a child on a tandem bike ride through the traffic. People wait to cross the street.
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War 2. Allied soldiers with a white flag in a car. Soldiers on foot and in cars. Soldiers on streets and on bicycles. Two officers talk to each other on the steps of a building. They leave the venue in a car. Civilians talk to soldiers in trucks. A German soldier guards French and British Prisoners of War (POWs). Allied prisoners marched on the street. An animated map depicts the movement of German troops as they close in on Dunkirk. German soldiers near a barricade on the road. Explosions as buildings are demolished. British sailors and Allied soldiers aboard naval vessels during the Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo). The ships underway at sea. Sailors aboard the ships. German Junker Ju 87 (Stukas dive bomber aircraft) dive-bomb the ships. Point of view shot from beside pilot, inside Ju 87 aircraft, looking through aircraft front windscreen as it dive bombs a large ship. Ships set on fire. Sailors look through binoculars and fire from a ship. Bombs dropped, ships are hit. German aircraft bomb the docks, ships and harbor area. Smoke arises from hit ships off shore. Street fighting on a deserted street. Soldiers take cover from machine gun fire. Smoke due to explosions. Artillery fired under the supervision of senior officers. French and British POWs are marched by Germans. Soldiers talk to the prisoners. The wounded are carried. Bomb damaged buildings and artillery on the streets. Dead soldiers amidst rubble and wreckage in a field. Troops march and advance. Wrecked vehicles by the road. Horses amidst wrecked artillery. Vehicles and buildings on fire. Soldiers push artillery. Dead soldiers. Soldiers stand outside the Renault plant in Boulogne. Soldiers light cigarettes, rest on the streets. Camouflaged tanks and hundreds of British prisoner of war soldiers on the streets guarded by German soldiers. Damaged and wrecked ships off shore. Debris and wreckage strewn on the beach. Abandoned Allied war materiel. A Nazi flag on the beach. British corpses lying around.
United States and French troops in France during World War I. Military ceremonies at the courtyard of Les Invalides (Hôtel des Invalides 75007 Paris, France) in Paris. The military band parades. U.S. and French soldiers present. Officers and dignitaries attend the ceremony. U.S. General John Pershing, French General Joseph Joffre, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French President Raymond Poincare, former Prime Minister Paul Painleve, Admiral Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze, French General Auguste Dubail and others process, reviewing the French and American military forces assembled. The dignitaries greet each other. U.S. and French troops parade. A military band performs. Soldiers march.
A Pan American Airways 4-engine Boeing 707 (N893PA) passenger aircraft at Orly Airport outside Paris, France. Air France and Finnair passenger planes taxi along a runway. A sign on an aircraft reads 'Pan American'. A woman boards the flight. Several of the terminal buildings are seen. Large cranes and construction are underway in parts of the airport. A Boeing 707 aircraft taxis down a runway and past other aircraft on the airfield. Aerial views of Paris near Orly Airport. The aircraft in flight. The aircraft flies over a beach and comes in for landing. The aircraft lands and taxis. A sign reads 'Jet Clipper Whirlwind' on the side of the Pan American Boeing 707. Aircraft at an airfield.
Group of former U.S. war correspondents in Paris, France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A view of railway tracks as seen from a moving train. American correspondents outside the U.S. Embassy in Paris. The group is joined by R. Sargent Shriver, then American Ambassador to France. The Eiffel Tower in Paris, viewed from a moving bus. Correspondents at a U.S. military helicopter pad in Paris. A helicopter lifts off. Aerial views of a city as seen from the helicopter. View of the Seine river and buildings of Paris below. Correspondents get off a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Another smaller helicopter, the blades rotate.
Slate reads: "Coucy, France. The American Aero Corps, which has seen active service with the Allied Armies, is now ready to fly for Uncle Sam." Aircraft are seen on a grass flight line. Closeup of one airplane fuselage shows Indian Head dress Squadron Insignia of the French Army, Lafayette Escadrille, that continued to be displayed on aircraft of the American 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron. French flier, Gervais Raoul Lufbery, sits on the ground leaning against the airplane. Another French flier sits nearby, accompanied by a German Shepherd dog. American flier,, William Thaw, stands against the propeller of the airplane. A group of American and French fliers display a large American flag, in recognition of the the 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron commencing operations in France, as a U.S. entity.
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