FRENCH 2ND ARMORED DIVISION ENTERS PARIS, FRANCE Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 2192 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-537 and 538) ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, 1002' ea Silent 2192 INV 1404 thru 1407 FRENCH 2ND ARMORED DIV ENTERS PARIS, FRANCE, 24 Aug 1944 VS, French troops enter Paris and are cheered by civilians. Various CUs, cheering civilians. MCU, tank fires gun into bldg. VS, German prisoners with hands raised come out of bldg and walk twd the tanks. MSs, French soldiers fire rifles at bldgs. VS, line of French armored half-tracks and tanks in streets fire at various German holdouts in bldgs. CU, Stars and Stripes newspaper with headline "Paris Is Liberated." Pan to jubilant civilians in streets cheering US 1ST Armd Div troops. VS, French troops march captured German snipers twd camera. VS, burning tank in city street as ammunition explodes. VS. Gen Jacques Phillipe Leclerc rides thru streets.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities