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Synopsis: U.S. troops are cheered and warmly greeted by town-folk in France. Nazi collaborators are abused as they are marched through the streets. Abandoned German clothing is salvaged by civilians. De Gaulle enters Chartres, and greets and then confers with Gens. Eisenhower and Koenig. German prisoners are unloaded from trucks. Naval guns pound shore installations and landing craft goes ashore. Prisoners are herded along the beach. British ships, including the Rodney, bombard a channel port. RAF pilots are pulled from the sea onto the Rodney; the Rodney and a German battleship exchange fire. Tanks advance across a field, enter a town, and demolish buildings. Collaborators are led from their hiding places. German prisoners, one of whom is drunk, are questioned. Flame-throwing tanks advance; troops cross the Seine on a pontoon bridge; French civilians and Allied troops remove obstructions from roads. Allied troops are warmly greeted by civilians as they enter Paris. Winston Churchill rides through an Italian town; troops cheer; Churchill autographs an artillery shell and then is driven away. |
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Information: 1944 BW 9 min (SILENT) |
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