FRANCE LIBRE ACTUALITIES, NO. 10 Reel 1 · Part 3

Description

Reel 1, St. Therese is honored: shows church dignitaries, choir boys, crowds, and a procession through Paris. French troops, including colonials, enter a French town. Gen. de Gaulle decorates Free French units. Tanks, ink., and trucks move toward the Rhine. Amphibious vehicles cross a flooded river; ink. use a pontoon bridge. Shows German prisoners. Allied artillery and planes bombard St. Nazaire, Rouen, and La Rochelle. Moslem troops are treated in a French hospital. Free French sailors are decorated aboard a battleship. Shows French civilians mourning Nazi persecution victims, de Gaulle addressing a crowd, and Nazi crematoriums in French Reel 2, shows an inter-allied boxing match in France.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Motion Pictures from the Free French Newsreels Program Series