United States 3rd Division, 30th Infantry Regiment marches on road in southern France in vicinity of Aix-en-Provence. Soldiers hold two German prisoners at gunpoint. Group of American Army soldiers marches on French street. (World War II period).
Scene of Vimy Ridge War Memorial in Pas-de-Calais, France. King Edward the Eighth goes to inaugurate the War Memorial. Military officers gather to see inauguration. King Edward unveils the Figure of Canada on Vimy Ridge Memorial. Large crowd gathered to see ceremony.
CIC patrol moves though wrecked streets of the town of Saint Lo in France after allied bombings and D-Day (World War II). Views of city after heavy bombardment. German prisoners captured in battle are marched off with their hands behind head.
Twenty one former Nazi German SS men go on trial before military tribunal for the massacre of 1944, of 642 men, women and children at a village in Oradour-sur-Glane, France during World War II. While in the village, seven survivors survey the charred buildings of the hamlet which was put to torch. Abandoned bicycle with flowers. Mourners at graves.
United States Army Field Artillery Battalion of 92nd Infantry Division (Colored), "Buffalo Soldiers," equipped with tractor-drawn 8-inch Howitzers, in Mantes de Gassicourt, France during World War 2. Opening scene shows an 8-inch howitzer shell on a stand. It has the words: "Harlem to Hitler" written on it in chalk. A gunner screws a fuse into its nose. Closeup of the shell and chalk message. Four soldiers then pick up the shell and walk it towards the breech of their 8-inch howitzer. Cloeup of the gun breech as gunner locks breech and then unlocks and opens it for the camera. Scene shifts to gun crew member communicating on field telephone. Camouflage netting is visible behind him. Next, a gun crew member is seen holding his ears as if to protect against the noise of a gun firing. Change of scene shows members of gun crew relaxing near their 8-inch howitzer, near a grove of trees. New scene shows brief glimpse of a shell exploding in hill above Mantes. (The tower of the Mantes Notre Dame cathedral is seen in lower left of the shot.) (Note: These scenes probably show members of the 795th or the 999th Field Artillery Battalion)
Activities of U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Mechanics and soldiers push a DH-4 biplane bomber out of a canvas-covered hangar and onto the airfield. Five DH-4s parked on the grass field. The mechanics and the soldiers push two more DH-4 aircraft into the line at the field. The tails of all the aircraft are painted in the French scheme of vertical blue-white-red stripes, with the blue forward.
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