U.S. troops in France soon after the Allied Invasion of Europe, in World War 2. An American Army medic in a field. French Farmers stack hay with hay forks. Hay stacks on the field. Big U.S. artillery gun camouflaged in the same field. The artillery fires at German positions while the farmers continue moving hay, uninterrupted.
American troops and war correspondents in France, during World War 2. They visit Mont Saint Michel, a small rocky island at the mouth of Couesnon River in Normandy, separating Normandy and Brittany. View of the island with a monastery at the top. War correspondent Robert Capa (of Life and of Time Magazines) looks on and takes pictures. Military jeeps leave the island. Madam Poulard stands under a sign at her Hotel Poulard. Sign for the Hotel and its reputed omelette. Soldiers on the street. Shops and French flags. GIs at the Benedictine Abbey and steepled church. An old French man points. U.S. Soldiers take a tour of the monastery with a woman guide. Steeples, towers, arches and other architectural features of the abbey and monastery. War correspondents including Charles Collingwood, Chicago Daily News' Helen Kirkpatrick, New Yorker Magazine's Joe Liebling (Abbot Joseph Liebling) and Warden Becker. Helen and Charles pose for the camera. Ernest Hemingway, covering for Colliers Magazine, drinks and talks to Bill Walton. War correspondents including Bill Stringer seated and walking on the street. They visit the monastery and take pictures. Civilians on the streets. Tall sticks in sand placed by German forces around the island to prevent Allied planes from landing at low tide. Three war orphan brothers whose parents were killed at the battle of St Lo, play on the beach as their grandmother looks on. Views of the island and patterns on the sand around the island from the receding waters of low tide. St. Malo, Brittany: Field near Saint Malo. American soldiers bathe and swim in a lake. They fool around in the water, taking a break from battle.
Damage caused during the war between Allied forces and the German troops in France. Wrecked vehicles, artillery and other equipment. Wounded German soldiers. Soldiers carry wounded on a stretcher. German prisoners emerge single and then in small groups. German prisoners at a prison camp built by them for the French. The prisoners sit, stand and talk. A soldier talks to a man. Soldiers talk to a boy who was made a slave after his parents were killed by the Nazis in Ukraine. Prisoners eat and drink.
U.S. 9th Machine Gun Battalion in France during World War I. The troops stand and are seated around a phonograph together with French soldiers. They listen to the phonograph which is kept on a table. Two soldiers pluck feathers from a chicken while they listen, and a soldier pours wine from a bottle to share. The French and American troops dance and have fun as they listen to the phonograph. The troops eat and drink.
U.S. 7th Machine Gun Battalion in La Chapelle-sur-Chezy, France during World War I. The troops receive thanks. They stand in formation. U.S. General Joseph Theodore Dickman with a U.S. officer and the Prefet de l'Aisne with French officers thank each other. General Dickman speaks to the Prefet de l'Aisne. General Dickman stands with a man. A French officer smiles.
German prisoners in France during World War I. German prisoners are escorted by the U.S. troops. The soldiers on horse back. German prisoners march forward. The prisoners are taken from a field and the troops on horse back accompany them.
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