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German forces engage in realistic live fire exercises in preparation for defense of France against Allies, WWII

German forces engage in live fire exercises as they prepare to defend against anticipated Allied invasion. German gun crew fires artillery piece. Concealed German soldiers look through binoculars toward coastal terrain. .Soldiers climb hilly terrain behind bushes. Soldiers, in trench, hold their ears as they fire a mortar. Artillery guns beinf fired. Heavy smoke rises up due to explosions. Soldiers communicate through radio. View of Atlantic coast from camouflaged defensive position. Sky is filled with German paratrooper chutes. Paratroopers organizing on the ground and moving as a group. Firing a machine gun. German gun crew fires from concealed position. Crewman wipes shells clean before they are placed in gun. German officer looks through periscope. (World War II period).

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053928
General Charles De Gaulle addressing the citizens in France.

Peaceful view of River Seine. Crowds gathered in streets. Tape strung across walks reads: "Honneur aux Forces Francaises de L'Interieur." General Charles de Gaulle walks through huge wreath arch that displays Free French symbolic Cross of Lorraine in white wood on each side of arch. The French tricolor flies from tall flag pole. A huge crowd gathered in a town square. Man with a little girl atop his shoulder. General Charles De Gaulle walks up to a platform in the center of the crowd and waves to them. The General speaks into several microphones. The officers with folded arms listen to the General. A reading 'Tribune Officielle' denotes official seating area. Several men seated on top of an entrance to a building. Several men on bicycles. The people are restrained and quiet, but applaud at the end of the speech.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: French
Clip: 65675054737
German fighter planes and antiaircraft battle Allied bombers during Allied invasion of Normandy, France, in World War II

Map shows French coast, English Channel and principal cities of interest, during the Allied invasion in World War 2. German Messerschitt Bf 109 aircraft on a flight line are starting up. Pilots getting buckled into cockpits and ME 109s taxiing for takeoff. Switch to German Focke-Wulf FW 190 aircraft taking off in formation from forward airfield. Contrails seen from high flying aircraft. Formations of American aircraft overhead, are fired at by German antiaircraft gun from hidden position. German antiaircraft batteries in operation. Wreckage of downed Allied aircraft, showing two left engines of a B-17; an A-20 or B-26, in D-day white stripes, with tail number 30148; and a crash-landed B-17 of the USAAF 96th Bombardment Group, 339th Bomb Squadron, with left horizontal stabilizer and elevator shot to pieces. Three surviving crew members stand behind the aircraft as they are approached by two German soldiers who check them for weapons.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056328
Scenes of France following the Normandy invasion during World War II. Allied prisoners of war

Map of the French coast and English Channel, highlighting major cities. German armored half-track and SP Flak on a Maultier half-track, camouflaged with foliage. German troops driving livestock along a dirt road. German army trucks barely visible under camoflage of tree branches and foliage. Allied fighter bombers attacking German positions and smoke rising from bombing. French civilians salvaging belongings and some leaving their war-torn village. View of destroyed and damaged buildings in the village and citizens working to clear debris. An injured person being carried on a stretcher by white-helmeted voluteers. A family leaving with their belongins piled into a horse-drawn wagon. Boys pulling a wagon with their belongings. Women pushing baby carriages as they leave their homes. A small group of French Colonial troops taken prisoner, being escorted under guard, along a dirt road. Large numbers of Allied prisoners of war (POWs), being marched through a French city, as local French people watch from sidewalks.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056340
French nurse applying lipstick beside an ambulance in Normandy, France (WW2)

A French nurse drinks from her canteen beside a Free French ambulance during World War 2. The likely location is Périers. A nurse applies lipstick beside an ambulance. Nurses presses her upper and lower lips together. French nurse applies lipstick in front of a hand mirror hanging on the door of a truck. A French nurse puts on a sock and her shoe on her right foot.

Location: France
Date: 1944, August 5
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079381
Refugees in winter snow, France (WW2)

French civilian refugees on snow covered road during winter, World War II. French refugees prepare their carts filled with household goods. An old woman with basket sits on top of a cart. A young child sits on a wooden wagon. Elderly French civilians carry their belongings and trek on foot. French refugees move along a snowy road with horses and oxen pulling carts. Women pushing their carts as they leave their village. A boy pulls a sled carrying a sack. He catches up with his parents. A United States Jeep drives past the refugees on the road. A dog pulls a cart, helped by a boy. Another dog also helps to pull a cart. Two boys and their pet dog leave their village. Faces of distraught French refugees. United States troops watch the convoy of refugees leaving town.

Location: France
Date: 1944, December
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080049
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