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French army return to France. French women ambulance drivers attached to the Regiment de, Marche du Tchad of the French Army line up for embarkation to France on the docks at an English seaport. Trained in the Tchad region of French Equitorial Africa, troops of this regiment made the historic march across the desert from Tchad to meet Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.

French Army returns to France. A French soldier plays an accordian for his mates aboard an Allied landing vessel en route to France. The French Army, supplied with American fighting equipment, has returned to France to join the Allied Expeditionary Force in the campaign to drive the Nazis from the country.

French reserve Officers see 'Spitfires' at Southampton. General Dufieux thanking one of the 'Spitfire' pilots after the demonstration flight at Southampton. Supermarine Spitfire jachtvliegtuig.

French and Americans play soccer match. During the four years of occupation, the French of St. Pierre Eglise consistantly refused to participate in sports with the Nazis. The Germans formed a football team and invited the French team to a match. The French refused. The invitation was extended periodically but never accepted. French and German teams played on the same field at the edge of town but always ...

French Army returns to France. Major Florence Conrad (left) of Chicago, Illinois, who formerly lived in Paris, heads the unit of French women ambulance drivers which accompanied the French Army joining the Allied Expeditionary Force in France. They are shown lined up at a dock in England.

French army returns to France. French soldiers show English children a photograph of General Charles de Gaulle, President of the French Committee of National Liberation, at a seaport in England before embarkation to France. the soldiers are members of the crack Tchad Regiment, which marched across the desert in 1942 from French Equatorial Africs to join the Allies in North Africa. Fully equipped with ...

French Army returns to France. French soldiers march through the streets of an English seaport town to their mess hall immediately before embarkation to France. Trained in the Tchad region of French Equatorial Africa, the men are members of the crack regiment which made the famous march in 1942 from Tchad across the desert to join Allied forces in North Africa. Once more they have joined the Allies ...

French chiefs visit Normandy. Louis Jacquinoc, Ministre de la Marine in the French Provisional Government, and Admiral Geotges Thierry D'Argenliu, Commander of French Naval Forces based in Britain, are received at the pier at Cherbourg Harbor by Captain Norman Seaton Ives, USN, Naval Officer in Charge of Cherbourg Habor, during their recent visit. M. Jacquinoc came from Algiers aspecially to make the ...

French and U.S. Army Chiefs meet in Paris. Left to right: Edmond Michelet, French Minister of the Armies; Kenneth C. Royall, U.S. Under-Secretary of War, and General Alphonse Juin, Chief of the French National Defense General Staff, meet in Paris at a reception held at the residence of American Ambassador Jefferson Caffery in honor of Mr. Royall during his inspection tour of American forces in Eur ...

Admiral opens first French naval headquarters in Normandy. Underneath a photograph of General Charles de Gaulle, Rear Admiral Georges Thierry dÁrgenlieu (center) Commander-in-Chief of French Naval Forces in the United Kingdom, talks to two of his aides at the first French naval headquarters opened in liberated France. Admiral dÁrgenlieu was one of the first to enlist under de Gaulle after escaping ...

French crew mans U.S.-made tank destroyer. Soldiers of the French Army man a U.S.-manufactured tank destroyer on maneuvers in North Africa. More than 300,000 French troops, anxious to liberate their homeland from German oppressors, have been equipped by the U.S. with thousands of tons of material, including tanks, artillery, machine guns and other modern weapons. Half of these French troops, commanded ...

Stockpile. French soldiers try embarkation for attack. Soldiers of the French Army clamber up landing nets to board an American transport in maneuvers off the North African Coast. More than 300,000 French troops, anxious to liberate their homeland from German oppressors, have been equipped by the U.S. with thousands of tons of material including tanks, artillery, machine guns and other modern weapons ...