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Bomb damaged Place de la Concorde and unscathed Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame in Paris after WWII.

Results of selective strategic bombing by the British Royal and United States Eighth Air Forces in German-occupied Paris and surrounding areas during World War II. September 1944: Pont de Grenelle bridge over the Seine river. Eiffel Tower (Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France) in the background. The Statue of Liberty replica on the Ile aux Cygnes Island (Pont de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France). Shell blast damaged buildings and the Obelisk at Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). Cyclists and motorists at the Place. Military cars pass the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) at Champs Elysees. Civilians around the Eiffel Tower. The French flag atop the undamaged tower. Unscathed Notre Dame de Paris (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France). United States military vehicles in the square before the cathedral. U.S. Army soldiers and French civilians crowding in front of the Cathedral. An FFI (French Forces of the Interior) flag at Notre Dame.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021871
The Taverny caves where the German ball bearing industry sought refuge during the Allied bombings of World War II.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in and around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The caves at Taverny where the ball bearing industry sought refuge during the bombings. Workers inside the caves transformed into modern factories. Military jeeps parked at the factories. Soldiers talk to civilians. Workers operate machinery. A man emerges from within a creeper covered cave.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021876
A storage depot for the German V-1 (flying bomb) and munitions near L'Isle-Adam after the Allied bombings during World War II.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in German-occupied France during Wolrd War II. A storage depot for the German V-1 (flying bomb) and munitions dispersed over an area of 3 square kilometers in the forest near L'Isle-Adam. Walls of not more than half a dozen buildings left standing. Tracks of narrow gauge that ran between the buildings appear occasionally from heaps of rubble. Cradle carts for moving bombs and robots rust by the road way. French work men with picks and shovels carve a path through the rubble. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) soldiers lift a mine while others stand guard with captured Mausers, alert for snipers still hiding in the forest.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021881
American and Burmese instructors train recruits in mine laying in Burma during World War II.

U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. American and Burmese instructors with the students on a path in the jungle. The instructor gives instructions and demonstrates mine laying near huts in a clearing. The students watch. The y mark positions on either side of the road and lay mines. The recruits in camouflaged hats. The instructors demonstrate and inspect. The students lay mines in the thick foliage. Dust flies on the jungle path.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021891
Burmese students perform strengthening exercises and train in handling and firing of rifles in Burma during World War II.

U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. Burmese recruits assemble outside a thatched hut in the jungle. They perform strengthening exercises. A Burmese instructor trains the students in handling and firing of rifles. A student runs up a hill to place the practice target in position. Students in prone positions take aim and fire at the targets. Each student takes his turn. Burmese recruits lined up outside a thatched hut. An American instructor demonstrates the grenade throwing action. The students observe and follow the instructions.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021894
Chamber of Commerce members await the arrival of President John F Kennedy at Hotel Texas, Fort Worth.

A television presentation 'Welcome to Texas' welcomes U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on his visit to Dallas. A presenter reports on the President's Chamber of Commerce breakfast speech at the Hotel Texas (815 Main St. Town or city, Fort Worth, Texas) in Fort Worth. Guards at the entrance to the conference hall. Officials, members, and others seated inside the hall. Officials and Secret Service agents enter and leave the hall. Dignitaries including Vice President Lyndon B Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson seated at tables on the stage. Attendants stand behind the seated guests. Policemen and Secret Service agents inside the hall. A 'Chamber of Commerce' banner on the stage. Officials, agents and guards at the hall entrance. These events took place on the morning of President Kennedy's assassination.

Date: 1963, November 22
Duration: 7 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021898