A United States cruiser sailing the English Channel after the D-Day landings in World War II. United States Navy Admiral Harold R. Stark’s four-star flag. Admiral Stark looks through binoculars on board the ship. Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk climbs down a sea ladder and is assisted aboard the USS Augusta by crew. Crewmen from the USS Augusta watch as officials board the ship. Allied ships in Normandy as seen from a DUKW. Admiral Stark with Admiral Kirk and Admiral John L. Hall Jr. on their way to Normandy beachhead. The three admirals tour the shore installations. An official talks to them. Soldiers wading through water ashore while carrying guns and supplies. Admiral Stark looks on as the official shows a part of the installation. Admiral Hall inspects a foxhole. Admiral Stark and an officer talk while standing on top of a Jeep. Soldiers carrying supplies in the foreground.
The Allied invasion fleet on a beachhead in Normandy as seen from a glider during the D-Day landings in World War II. A pilot talks through a radio. United States gliders on the ground are seen, some of the planes are partly demolished after landing.
Road graders and bulldozers leveling a new airstrip in Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. Rolls of Marston Mat steel planking in the foreground. A Piper L-4 plane lands and takes off from the new strip. A United States soldier radio operator working with a colleague.
Two trucks and a bus full of liberated French prisoners drive down an avenue in Paris. A large Parisian crowd including young girls watch their arrival. People wave out to welcome the prisoners as they wave back. Sign on bus stating 'Repatriated Prisoners'. Shots of French prisoners as a civilian offers them cigarettes. A Parisian volunteer nurse. Trucks of prisoners pull up before a building. Algerian prisoner as he drinks from a bottle of wine. A French soldier. (World War II period).
Scenes of a Paris compound. Two men working on a machinery part. A man fixing the hood atop a jeep. Another man approaches the jeep.
Views of numerous gargoyles, grotesques, and chimeras on the Notre Dame Cathedral (Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris). The city of Paris can be seen in the background. U.S. military personnel leave the church as French honor guards line up outside. Gendarmes around the church as MPs get ready to march. (World War II period)
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