French Point Of View - American Troops After D-Day (1944)

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French point of view - American troops after D-Day.
Various shots of tracer bullets being fired at aeroplane flying overhead. M/S of four children huddled together. M/s of man in flat cap smoking cigarette. M/Ss of civilians, one is holding camera. L/Ss of numerous landing craft and army vehicles on Normandy beach. Several shots of the remains of a glider (possibly belonging to the Royal Air Force). M/S of civilian children watching soldiers march past. L/Ss of soldier talking to residence in the doorway of house.
Nice M/S of man carrying cycle over his shoulder and woman carrying sack walking down country lane. More shots of civilian country folk. Good shots of soldiers (look like American) carrying supplies ashore on Normandy beach. L/Ss of numerous ships off coast and barrage balloons in the sky. L/Ss of landing craft. L/S of aeroplane with smoke billowing from it spiralling out of control and into the sea. More shots of tracer bullets firing at aircraft. L/S of large ship with large landing craft moored alongside it.
FILM ID:1951.08
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@christophergerety1263 Жыл бұрын

We came. We conquered. We gave it back.

@paulshrew 2 жыл бұрын

great footage of locals who would have heard and seen allied planes flying over for the previous 4 years, and footage of American soldiers before the horrors that lay ahead..

@robsan52 Жыл бұрын

Amazed that cigarettes and wine are easily avaliable...I see it in many of the Pathe' and Chronos videos. WHERE did the money come from??

@SongJLikes Жыл бұрын

The Nazis hi-jacked the French economy; they didn’t put it to a stop. Look at it this way… the Nazis wanted to drink French wine and smoke cigarettes during their stay; if French civil industry shut down, they’d be SOL… The Nazis were getting paid for occupying France, they wanted to get rich off the occupation… (as well as use French ports for Naval/Uboat offensives)

@Slithey7433 Жыл бұрын

Cigarettes from GIs, wine from locals.

@wyattrierson3967 Жыл бұрын

Plus us paratroopers where given invasion currency much to the displeasure of the French government

@nemo6686 Жыл бұрын

It would take more than Hitler to stop the French making wine.

@Slithey7433 Жыл бұрын

U.S. Forces provided their personnel freely and liberally with cigarettes. American GIs found them to be ready currency among the European populace, who’d been denied such luxuries. In the early time of occupation of defeated Germany, cigarettes were the preferred medium of exchange.