United States soldiers enter the village of Saint-Marcouf, in the Manche department in Normandy, France during World War 2. Soldiers pass by sign “Saint-Marcouf”. United States troops carry rifles. French villagers walking. Soldiers talk to an old French man and woman. Soldiers sitting on the street side of what is now known as the “Route du 5 Juin 1944”. Soldier smoking a cigarette during a break. Groups of soldiers crowd outside a damaged house. Soldiers talking to a French man. A soldier talks to children. A little girl points upwards. A statue of the Virgin Mary stands among the rubble. A statue of Jesus Christ on the Cross leaning sideways inside a church wrecked. Words by George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army says “No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan”. A “V” is superimposed over marching soldiers and a ringing Liberty Bell.
A glider flies over Paris after liberation from Nazi Germany during World War 2. Allied soldiers in Jeeps, motorcycles and other armored vehicles move towards the Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). A huge crowd gathered at the Place de la Concorde. Soldiers standing guard in front of crowd. Crowds cheering in front of the Hôtel de Crillon (10 Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France) near the Place de la Concorde. Guards and civilian men control a crowd of young French men and women. Cheering French men. Red Cross nurses wave at crowds from moving trucks to Place de la Concorde. French women and boys waving from balcony. Young French men, women and Red Cross officers sit at the back of a Jeep. Crowds cheer for Allied troops in vehicles on Rue de Rivoli.
German Panzer division entering a Belgian town in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge (World War 2). A map showing cities (written in German) in the Netherlands, Belgium, North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, and the French Grand Est region. A Panzer infantry division enters a Belgian town. German troops stand on top of Panzer tanks parked near houses. Panzer IV tank on a town street as Belgian civilians standing and with bicycles watch the Panzer division enter their town. Low camera angle view looking upward toward an approaching Panzer V ("Panther") tank on a narrow road. German field marshal Walter Model observes German soldier carrying gasoline container. Three German soldiers with Panzerfaust weapons catching their breath during the cold winter. Field marshal Model talks with an officer and a young soldier (wearing a Stahlhelm painted in white for winter camouflage). Close-up view of a Panzer V tank (Panther) moving, with a German soldier wearing headphones standing up through a hatch on top of the moving tank. Panzer tanks moving through the Ardennes region. 7th Army Wehrmacht soldiers wearing winter coats and machine gun belts moving through muddy roads on foot. The first soldier in the line carries a Panzerfaust also. A soldier carries a spade. An abandoned artillery gun. A dead U.S. soldier lies down beside a Browning M1919 machine gun and machine gun belts. A Panzer V tank turning away in the near distance. Smoke beside a destroyed M4 Sherman tank. Destroyed artillery guns in a Belgian town. Destroyed U.S. Army vehicles in front of damaged houses and trees. Dead American soldiers lying beside destroyed vehicles. A German soldier wearing a camouflaged helmet. A Panzer V "Panther" tank rolling on the street.
United States Army Eighth Air Force, Second Air Division B-24 Liberator bombers bomb oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania, during World War 2. A map depicting a flight path from North Africa to Ploesti and Germany. B-24 Liberator aircraft drop bombs over Ploesti. A group of B-24 Liberator bombers in flight. Aerial view of Ploesti. Machine gun aimed at Ploesti. Aerial view of an oil refinery on fire. A group of B-24 Liberator bombers flying low over Romania. An oil refinery on fire in Ploesti. Clouds of thick smoke covers the bombed oil refinery. Oil refinery tanks on fire. Firemen use hoses to put out fire in oil refinery. German and Romanian men rush to burning oil refinery. German soldier uses firehose to put out flames. B-24 Liberator bombers returning to North Africa. People watch a B-24 Liberator bomber land on airfield. B-24 Liberator bomber taxiing after landing. United States Army men gather in airfield. Colonel Leon W. Johnson of the 44th Bombardment Group being awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the attack on the Ploesti oil fields.
World War II propaganda on the necessity for an Italo-German alliance. Map of Italy and Europe depicting the growth of the Roman Empire. Classical statues of famous emperors and figures from the Roman Empire. Roman era stone carving depicts sailors on a boat. Map depicts the line between the Roman Empire and barbarians. Bas relief depicts Roman soldiers engaging in battle with barbarians and barbarians looting items during a siege. Ruins of Roman architecture in present day Cologne, Germany. Stone carving of the Capitoline wolf nursing Romulus and Remus. Animated map shows Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. The Christian cross shines over the Roman Colosseum. Stone carving of barbarians taking over the former Roman empire. The Mausoleum of Theodoric (Mausoleo di Teodorico, Via delle Industrie, 14, 48122 Ravenna RA, Italy) in Ravenna, Italy. Mosaic art found at the Basilica of San Vitale (Via San Vitale, 17, 48121 Ravenna RA, Italy). A scroll from the Early Middle Ages.
Allied troops move against German counterattacks in Belgium and Western Germany during World War II. United States troops move along a muddy road in Belgium. Incendiary explosion. Tire on fire from incendiary. A soldier looks at wrecked American military jeeps and ruined buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a pile of wreckage. Fleeing civilians and refugees walk on the road on foot. Some of the civilians bring bicycles. Belgian Roman Catholic priests wearing Cappello romano hats are seen moving with the group. African American motorized infantry moving into Belgium. An African American soldier smoking cigarette on passing truck. Soldiers in the Ardennes Forest. A soldier plants M1 anti-tank mines in the Ardennes. He places a mine in a hole in the ground. The soldier covers the mine with a pile of dried leaves. Soldiers setting up roadblocks and covering tanks with foliage for camouflage. An M3 Stuart light tank is covered with hay to disguise as a haystack. United States soldiers carefully search the field for Nazi paratroopers. A soldier finds abandoned parachute equipment and white snow cape. Soldiers inspect passing trucks at an intersection between Bastogne and Martelange in Wallonia, Belgium. Belgian civilians fleeing a German advance on Highway 15. American Military Police personnel diligently searching for disguised German soldiers to prevent infiltration. A Military Police officer inspects a Belgian man’s identification paper. Military Police personnel questions a driver of a Jeep. Soldiers digging a dugout. Soldier with an M1917 Browning Machine gun. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer. A pile of shells stands beside the Howitzer. An officer gives out orders to fire over telephone. Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 tanks firing in the Ardennes. A soldier inspects with binoculars. Infantry troops moving across a field and village. Soldiers firing rifles from behind a stone fence. A soldier deposits a charge into a basement window, followed by explosion. Soldier fires bazooka in haze. Soldiers looking up to the sky searching for air support. Allied bombers flying over Belgium. British Royal Air Force bombers dropping bombs over a road junction as seen from bomb bay view.
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