Allied soldiers in France during World War II. Allied infantrymen carrying rifles move up a field in France. Infantrymen move along a road. French civilians gather around the soldiers. A French woman holds a child in her arms. The civilians greet the soldiers.
French partisans, members of Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, also known at the FTP or FTPF, in southern France during World War II. French partisans guard and walk with a accused Nazi collaborator on a street and then stop and interrogate him. The accused collaborationist talks and gestures. A partisan with a rifle advances through rubble. A panel delivery truck with initials 'FTPF' drives past with men inside. French people carry chairs in a street. Two French civilians kiss a man with a patch over his eye. The partisans stand with rifles in the street. The partisans or FFI engaged in street fighting. Grenades fall in the street and smoke rises.
Allied invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon) during World War 2. Equipment on Red beach in southern France and ships in the background. Sailors on the beach send a blinker signal. A landing craft approaches the beach. A gun emplacement on the beach. Another landing craft approaches the beach and its ramp being lowered. Vehicles unload from the craft. A DUKW (amphibious vehicle) arrives on the beach. Vehicles being unloaded from a landing craft as a man signals on the beach.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Corsican women and soldiers outside a dispensary at Alto Air Base in Corsica, France. A young girl wearing a hat outside the dispensary. U.S. Army trucks and jeeps on a road towards Bologne, Italy.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Armorers and ground crew work on a U.S. Army Air Forces A-26 Invader aircraft at a field in France. Men work on the nose section of the aircraft. Aircraft in formation flight over the field. An A-26 Invader aircraft taxis along the field.
German newsreel opens with a map of France. French peasants drive their cattle to a safer place from Normandy after the Allied invasion of the area. German Mechanized Forces and German armor move forward to combat the Allied invasion as they pass amidst a herd of cattle. Allied airplanes bomb a French city as smoke rises due to bombing. People dig through debris and remove dead bodies. French civilians leave the city. Damaged buildings in the city. Women move away with their belongings. American prisoners march in Paris as French civilians kick and strike the U.S. soldier prisoners of war following the Allied bombings in France. Narrator explains the belief that it is clever film cutting propaganda and that this kind of reaction by the French was rare.
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