French General Charles De Gaulle arrives by car and is greeted by local girls outside the Cathedral in Strasbourg, Alsace, during World War II. He enters the cathedral to participate in services of thanks for the French military victory over German forces in the Colmar pocket, Alsace. Among others present in the cathedral are French Generals Jean de Lattre de Tassigny; Philippe Leclerc ; and Alphonse Juin. Outside, in the city square, General De Gaulle reviews French armor and troops and decorates French soldiers who participated in the Colmar and Strasbourg battles, as enthusiastic local citizens cheer. Later, in Severne, Alsace, General De Gaulle honors two American Generals with French military decorations. U.S. 7th Army Commander, Major General Alexander Patch (Sandy) receives the Legion of Honor and U.S. 6th Army Group Commander, Lieutenant General Jacob Devers receives the Grand Officer Award. U.S.Military band plays and U.S.troops march in review past De Gaulle, Patch and Devers.
U.S. Army soldiers fight against the Germans during the Battle of Bulge in World War II. U.S. soldiers retreat and engineers prepare and lay mines and barbed wire fences. U.S. soldiers on a snow covered field. A map of Belgium depicts the Nazi drive into the region of Bulge. Allied aircraft bombard German town. Nazi prisoners of war being marched. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47B aircraft drop supplies to U.S. troops at Bastogne. U.S. 3rd Army advances in the regions. Damaged buildings in the city and dead bodies in streets. Soldiers fire rifles in a street in Haguenau, France. Credential being checked by officers. Soldiers fire rifles and artillery and speak over field phone. Alsatian women being freed from a prison. Senator James F. Byrnes speaks about the U.S. soldiers fighting in the war during a war bond drive.
Far East Air Force operations in Seoul, Korea during the Korean War. C-47 (DC-3) aircraft parked at Seoul air base (K-16) airfield. A sign on the aircraft reads 'Royal Hellenic Air Force'. Officers stand near the aircraft as they talk amongst themselves. Patch on left shoulder of uniform reads 'U.N.Hellenic Flight 13'. Greece bullseye ensign painted on aircraft fuselage and tricolor on tail. Officers walk away from the aircraft and wave at one of their Greek Flight C-47s taxiing past. Airmen enter a quonset hut having a tall striped flagpole in front of it. A sign reads 'RHAF 13th Greek Flight'. A sign on a bullet pockmarked building reads 'Seoul City air base'. Two Republic of Korea airmen and a small boy, converse with an American airman. A Jeep and a truck pass in background. The Korean airmen walk away, eating something and the boy follows them, with hands in pockets.
Ruins in Seicheprey and Hamonville in France during World War I. A damaged building identified as Officers Mess (Cuisine des Oficiers). Several U.S. Army officers emerge from the Mess. A squad of U.S. soldiers marches down the road. A destroyed clock tower on a building . Ruins of buildings and houses. A soldier walks past the city ruins.
A large group of French women stand on a pier, waving American flags, as a troop ship arrives at a port in France, during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), soldiers of the U.S.1st Infantry Division, crowd her deck. The troops are seen leaving the ship by gangplank, and crowding the pier. They then assemble and march off. They proceed through dense crowds on both sides of their line of march. U.S. troops marching along a French city street are approached by French women expressing their appreciation. A French policeman walks with a bicycle, alongside the troops. French policemen march along, behind the Americans. Scene shifts to American soldiers playing musical instruments as others dance with women at an outdoor waterfront cafe, as they wait for transport. Allied officers are seen standing in front of a collection of canvas covered shelters, with a sign above, reading: "Camp Franco-Americain." (This is where arriving American troops undergo training by the French.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Nazi Germany launches an airborne invasion of Crete, Greece during World War II. A map shows the advance of the German forces towards Crete. Airborne forces commanded by General Kurt Student advance forward. German pilots fly towards Crete. German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52 fly towards Crete. The aircraft drop bombs and attack. German paratroopers descend and land below. Machine gunners fire guns. Wrecked Allied aircraft. The German forces advance. German troops climb hills. German soldiers carry guns and attack Allied soldiers. Airplanes drop bombs on land. Soldiers fire artillery. Soldiers hide behind a rocky hill. Soldiers on foot march Allied prisoners (many of the POW appear to be British). The city after the invasion.
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