General Charles De Gaulle and General Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Paris Victory Parade in Paris, France during World War II. A group of six soldiers march with guns on the road, one of the soldiers holding a flag. The soldier lowers the flag to the front. A large crowd watches. French officers on the side of the road. The French guards with rifles. The French troops march on the road. General Charles De Gaulle, General Dwight D Eisenhower and other officers stand on the side of the road and view the troops march. General De Gaulle and General Eisenhower salute. The French Army band march. Few officers follow. Guards with rifle and one guard with a flag march. The French officers and the crowd on the side of the road watch. A French officer on the road. More troops follow. A group of horsemen in rows march. A motorcade follows. Motorcycles and motor carriages pass on the road. The Generals get into the vehicle. General De Gaulle and General Eisenhower moves past the crowd in the vehicle. The French officers salute the Generals. The crowd cheers. The motor vehicles followed by the motorcycles moves along the road.
Repatriation of French prisoners of war in Paris, France after World War II. Several trucks loaded with freed French prisoners of war moving along a road in Paris. People on both sides of the road wave to the men on the trucks. Men and women standing behind barriers on the road wave. The repatriated prisoners wave to them. Men leaning from the trucks, and shaking hands and embracing people. Several people around the truck. The trucks moving along the road. Repatriates getting down from the trucks with their belongings. A repatriate embracing a civilian. A girl running alongside a truck moving with the prisoners. The girl embracing a repatriate. Several people in the background.
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso with sculptures and paintings in his studio in Vallauris, France. Picasso walks from outdoors into his studio. Many small structures seen in the background. He displays two small statues. Painting of owl seen. Collage and modern art paintings seen. “Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine” by Picasso. He displays pots. He makes the famous She-goat sculpture.
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) visits Versailles in France. Her Rolls Royce Phantom car pulls up to the entrance of the Versailles palace. A man opens her car doors and moves aside. A uniformed officer holds the door and salutes, as the Queen Mother steps from the car and is greeted by a bearded gentleman in a turban, and French diplomats. She greets people in the receiving line and then enters the palace. Many press reporters and photographers follow. Later, the Queen Mother arrives by car, again, this time, dressed for dinner, wearing a triple pearl necklace. She is greeted cordially and escorted by a diplomat. Exterior views of Versailles, including the equestrian statue of Louis XIV.
German Air Force (Luftwaffe) operations in support of the German 990th Regiment (990th Volksgrenadier Regiment of the 277th Infantry Division) during battle of Normandy, following Allied invasion in World War 2. German Focke-Wulf FW-190s take off from a field in France and proceed on tactical mission interdicting Allied lines of communication in Normandy. View of FW-190 dropping bombs, and of others strafing roads, and ground targets where Allied military movements are underway.
Allied forces raid the coast of Normandy in France on the D-Day invasion, during World War II. German soldiers arrested by the Allied soldiers. Allied tanks move on roads of a freed town. The prisoners walk lined up on beach. Supreme Allied Commanders General Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley and General Montgomery aboard a warship smile at the success of D-Day Invasion. Soldiers descend from landing boats and reach the beaches of Normandy. Allied infantrymen march inwards from the beach. War bonds appeal people to join the Allied forces.
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