German propaganda newspaper printing in occupied Paris,France during World War 2. View of Eiffel Tower. German soldiers read newspaper. Men work on Linotype machine. They set type case for printing. They pull proof from a print. German soldiers look at proof to approve it. Newspaper comes from end of a printing press machine. French workers stack papers. German soldiers come from newspaper office holding papers.
French civilians listen to German propaganda broadcast in Paris,France during Nazi occupation in World War 2. View of July Column. Crowd of French civilians in street below listens to broadcast. Buildings of Paris in the background. Speaker mounted on a car. Civilians on street listen to a speech via loudspeaker. Old French man seen crying and wipes his eyes. Men interact and talk about the broadcast. French women sit and talk.
French midget aircraft takes off from Orly Airport in Paris, France. The pilot pushes out French midget aircraft from hangar at Orly Airport. The pilot starts engine on the midget aircraft. The aircraft takes off from the field. Other French aircraft models in the background. The aircraft in flight over grasslands. The aircraft lands. The hangar in the background.
Crashed landing of autogyro at airfield in Paris,France. Crew men stand near the autogyro at an airfield. Hangar in the background. The pilot starts the engine. The autogyro takes off and flies over the airfield. Hangar in the background. The autogyro crashes during landing. Men watch the damaged autogyro.
Army Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) use a rail-mounted conveyer-type bucket dredge to deepen a channel for Allied ships on the Penfeld River at Brest, France, during World War 1. In the background, the Kerguillo mansion in the suburb Bohars, can be seen. The dreged spoils are being emptied into a string of open rail cars. Men work around the base of the dredge, loosening soil with long poles. Army engineers, including African American soldiers of the U.S. Army 501st Engineers work with French civilians to build wharfs on the Penfeld River. They stand with a rail car of concrete at the job site, and manually remove it when emptied. Construction supplies are piled up at the port, where 501st Engineer members are seen with other U.S. soldiers and French soldiers. View from rail car (not seen) moving along track, away from the port. A locomotive is seen with "USA" painted on its side,next to a newly constructed rail platform. A French workman carrying a large can walks next to the tracks. A railroad crane stands on a siding. Workmen build a station on the platform. (One raises his arms out wide for the camera.) An open rail car sits by the platform. A soldier from the 501st crosses the track near a rail car filled with wooden ties. View of U.S. troops running from work on a train of rail cars, as they respond to noon mess call. African American soldiers of the 501st Engineers getting lunch and eating at an outdoor mess. Four of them tap dance for the camera, as their comrades watch and clap.
Armistice Day Parade in Paris, France during World War II. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, French General Charles de Gaulle and Foreign Secretary Robert Anthony Eden watch Armistice Day Parade with the crowd at curb. French and American troops parade on the Champs Elysees. French civilians cheer and applaud. British troops on parade. Churchill and De Gaulle pass in car. Another car with Anthony Eden follow them. Churchill waves his cap. They walk to curb to great notables. Crowd follow them.
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