WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 176 [Main Title]
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- Title: WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 176 [Main Title]
- Film Number: WPN 176
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- Summary: Victory Is Everywhere.
- Description: I. 'VICTORY IS EVERYWHERE (CHURCHILL)' Crowds of French civilians cheer the arrival of United States (US) infantrymen. The flag of the United States is raised amid much kissing of US soldiers by the French populace. A captured German soldier is marched past gathered French civilians by US military police who are armed with .45-inch M3 sub-machine guns. French female collaborators are marched past a jeering crowd. French civilians help themselves to abandoned German military clothing. French civilians cheer General Charles de Gaulle as he walks through the centre of Chartres. General de Gaulle is later shown meeting General Dwight D Eisenhower and taking part in a meeting held at a tented encampment. German prisoners of war are driven off to a holding area on the back of Allied soft-skinned vehicles. Stock shots show the Allied naval bombardment of the French Mediterranean coastline at the start of Operation Dragoon and US infantry (US 7th Army) disembarking from landing craft and moving from the beach to the cover of a pine forest (cf WPN 179). HMS Rodney is shown underway on a calm sea and later firing salvos from her 16-inch guns at German fortified positions on the Channel Islands. Two downed Royal Air Force (RAF) aircrew are rescued from their dinghy by an unidentified Royal Navy (RN) ship. British Cromwell and M4 Sherman tanks drive along a road in Northern France. British M4 Sherman tanks, Universal carriers and White half-tracks move in loose formation across open ground. M4 Sherman and Firefly tanks negotiate open ground under enemy artillery fire. US infantry and French civilians take cover from German sniper fire in an unidentified French town (possibly Chartres). Panoramic footage shows hundreds of German prisoners gathered behind a barbed wire enclosure. British Universal carriers, adapted as flame gun carriers, manoeuvre at speed on exercises. US M10 Wolverine tank destroyers and soft-skins cross a pontoon bridge over the Seine River. Civilians applaud the raising of the French flag at the forecourt of the "Hôpital Militaire Percy." Brief footage shows British Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill on a visit to the Italian Front where he receives three cheers from British M4 Sherman tank crews.
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- Colour: B&W
- Digitised: Yes
- Object_Number: WPN 176
- Sound: Sound
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1944-09-18
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Ministry of Information, Middle East (Production sponsor) War Pictorial News (Production company) Martin, Charles (Production individual) Keating, Rex1910-02-142005-01British newsreel commentator, WW2 period (Production cast)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person) Eisenhower, Dwight David (person) Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) Royal Navy, Rodney (regiment/service)
- Keywords: celebrations, French - liberation (object name) law and order, French - detention (object name) combat, United States (object name) prisoners of war, German - custody (object name) operations, British naval - rescue (object name) prisoners of war, German - surrender (object name) ships, British naval - battleship: Rodney (object name) combat, British naval (object name) Southern France 1944-1945, North West Europe, Second World War (event) Percy Militaire Hospital, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Italy (geography) Chartres, Eure-et-Loire, France (geography) France (geography)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: Arabic
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 867 ft; Running time: 9 mins
- HD Media:Yes
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