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Military Newsreels 1944 Issue 53
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keywords: wwii, france, liberation of paris, house-to-house fighting, snipers, battle of the falaise pocket, french resistance, cheering parisians, military parade
Synopsis: The Liberation of WWII Paris with house-to-house fighting, tanks patrolling the streets and engaging pockets of German hold-outs, cheering crowds of Parisians with French flag raised on top of the Arc de Triomphe...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:10:37
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: France
Military Newsreels 1944 Issue 53
Historic scenes of the liberation of Paris, France. Shows huge crowds of cheering, waving French civilians in Paris.
Scenes of destroyed German equipment and surrender of hundreds of German soldiers is the terrible and crippling price the German 7th Army and 5th Panzer Army (German Army Group B) paid in the preceding weeks in the sector from Caen to the Seine in the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. German POWs in fenced enclosure.
British troops in street-by-street, house-by-house fighting to clear pockets of Germans from the French town of Lisieux. CU of British tank firing machine guns. Brief image of a woman setting down a cup of water next to a British soldier manning a machine gun.
A great honor goes to the people of the French town of Chartres, a key center of the French Resistance.
A 19 year old girl member of the French Resistance. Charles de Gaulle in Chartres, France on his way to Paris.
Troops of General Patton's 3rd Army crossing the Seine River in boats; 3rd Army tanks cross the Seine River on a pontoon bridge. Fighting at the foot of the Eiffel Tower as Allied tanks enter Paris and fighting at the German Headquarters building in Paris. German uses a white flag to surrender.
French General LeClerc, Commander of the 2nd French Armored Division, enters Paris and is greeted by crowds of cheering Parisians. British soldiers find their way into Paris.
General Charles de Gaulle as he enters Paris. General de Gaulle leads a parade down the Champs Elysees as the people shouted vive de Gaulle. German snipers fire into the crowd at the ceremony at the Hotel de Ville. British and American troops return fire as the crowds take cover.
French flag flying from the Arc de Triomphe.
