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General Koenig, Head of the French Forces of the Interior. Brigadier General Joseph Pierre Koenig, Commander of the French Forces of the Interior is shown at work at his desk in London. General Koenig, one of the first to enlist under General de Gaulle, was awarded the British DSO for his defense of Bir-Hakim. He was born in Caen, France, in 1898.

British and French naval forces combine to wipe out u-boats. British and French crews of anti-submarine craft fix dept charges before sailing in search of the common enemy.

Frankrijk: luchtaanvallen, 1914-1918. With the French forces. Arras Cathedral now. On right, a staircase, the remains of a house which was bombarded.

Ninth U.S. Air Force men entertain invalid French children. French children suffering from bone disease receive the visit of members of the Ninth U.S. Army's 387th Bombardment Group in the courtyard of the Hospital Callot, at Berck-Plage, in the Pas-de-Calais, department of France, August 4, 1945. Accompanied by the Mayor of Berck, the American airmen visited five hospitals in the town and presented ...

American soldiers repatriated on day. Allied forces landed on French north coast. Smiles wreath the faces of American soldiers who reached the U.S. on the Swedish liner Gripsholm on June 6, 1944, the day on which British, American and Canadian troops landed on the north coast of France to establish the first Allied beachheads in Western Europe. The Gripsholm docked at an Eastern U.s. port carrying ...

Ninth U.S. Air Force men entertain invalid French children. Major R.S. Wooten, in charge of a rest camp for men of the 387th Bombardment Group near Berk-Plage in the Pas-de-Calais, department of France, gives candy to a young patient of the Foundation France-Americaine, one of the five hospitals at Berck visited by U.S. airmen August 4, 1945. The young patient has just finished her ice cream which ...

Ninth U.S. Air Force men entertain invalid French children. Major R.S. Wootan, in charge of a rest camp for men of the Ninth U.S. Army's 387th Bombardment Group near Berck-Pluge in the Pas-de-Calais, department of France, holds one of the young patients in the Foundation France-americaine, one of five hospitals visited by American airmen from the camp, August 4, 1945. Candy from their own rations, ...

Ninth U.S. Air Force men entertain invalid French children. Major R.S. Wooten, in charge of a rest camp for men of the 387th Bombardment Group near Berk-Plage in this Pas-de-Calais, department of France, gives candy to a young patient of the Foudation France-Americaine, one of the five hospitals at Berck visited by U.S. airmen August 4, 1945. The young patient has just finished her ice cream which ...

Afro-Amerikaanse troepen in Frankrijk. Het originele bijschrift luidt: U.S. troops with French Forces of the Interior. U.S. soldiers and members of the French Forces of the Interior compare weapons as they chat together in a street in a French town.

U.S. Youth wins glory. Lieutenant C.F. Stehlin, 20-year old American, is a member of the Free French Air Force. Son of a Colonel Stehliln, famed American who was a member of France's Lafayette Squadron in the first World War, young Stehlin served with the American Field Ambulance Service until the collapse of France. In this capacity, while only 18 years old, he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre ...

From French Army. Heavy gun tank in French Army. The French Army possesses the finest artillery of modern times. Wheth light or heavy, and although having alreday given good account of itself, its fullest force has not been called upon when that moment arrives, it will be revelation. Here are heavy gun tanks, being loaded on the railway freight trucks, for the front.

Sea and air escort for french President. British destroyers and AnsonMachines of the Rpyal Air Force escorting the steamer with the President and Madame Lebrun on board.