Allied Invasion of Montélimar, Southern France during Operation Dragoon of World War II. Map of Southern France shows Montélimar and Allied “Pincer” strategy to trap German forces. American soldiers fire heavy artillery and German batteries respond in kind. Retreating German troops and tanks leave much war materiel behind. Seventh United States Army tanks and trucks advance through streets. Huge black smoke cloud rises from a fire. Several German prisoners of war are captured by Allied forces. 191st tank destroyer battalion advances.
Natzweiler-Struthof (or Natwiller-Struthof), a German concentration camp and extermination camp, in France used by the Nazis for political prisoners from Belgium and France during World War II. A U.S. soldier examines urns used for ashes of victims. A crematorium, blood stained coffins and a gas chamber at the camp. An examination or experiment procedure table with indented fluid drains, that drains into a sink below.
D-Day invasion of Normandy, France by Allied forces during World War II. Congested beach of Normandy after Allied amphibious landings. Bulldozer moves up in the foreground. Soldiers clean rifles. Dukw (six-wheel drive amphibious truck) moves along road. A soldier with ammunition belt. A soldier reads French dictionary behind AA (antiaircraft) gun. Rolls on wire matting on it in France. Soldier in control tower waves. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt fighters coming in to land. Plane being painted with invasion stripes. Soldiers crowd around planes. They talk to pilots. Planes are refueled. Planes taxi and take off.
U.S. soldiers in Laval Pl. du 11 Novembre, 53000 Laval, France) France during World War II. 3rd Division vehicles entering the main square. The Laval City Hall decorated with French flags in the background. 3rd Armored Division tanks, trucks and other vehicles cross a repaired masonry bridge and enter the town. People cheer. A military policeman directs the traffic. French civilians walk across the repaired bridge.
Generalfieldmarschall Erwin Rommel, with entourage of senior German military officers, inspects German defenses on the coast of France (so-called "Atlantic Wall"). They tour heavy gun emplacements and shore obstacles. During the tour, they view a large bunker, camouflaged to look like a barn, from the air. Sliding doors are opened revealing a railroad gun. This is a 28cm K5 railway gun of battery E712, at Pointe aux Oies, nearBoulogne-sur-mer, France. Gun crew moves it out, partway on the rails, and raises the barrel to a high elevation. Views of rotating gun turrets; more railway guns, and a 60cm railway mortar called "Thor."
During liberation of France in World War 2: As General Charles De Gaulle reaches the Hotel DeVille in Paris, France, snipers begin firing from the rooftops. The crowd takes cover as the soldiers return tank fire aimed at the snipers. A motorcade arrives on the road. A motorcycle in the front followed by two motor vehicles. People on either side of the road. People on the buildings on the side of the road. General Charles De Gaulle with other officers. The crowd on the side of the road takes cover as the soldiers with guns fire at snipers. Several soldiers and officers in uniform on the road. Men and women on the roadside watch. Few men and women go outside through the entrance gate. Armed men at the entrance gate. Soldiers on the road. A woman with a French flag. Motorcycles on the road. Officers and soldiers watch. Stains of blood on the road. (World War II period).
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