Unknown French Newsreel #21059 (1940)

France.

April 1940. Military parade near the forward positions.

Columns of infantry, tanks, artillery march France.

Navy.

Admiral of the fleet awards distinguished sailors of the submarine France.

Forward positions.

Clearing enemy barbed wire.

French sapper soldiers making their way through barbed wire.

Photographing a German fortified coast.

Artillery shelling of German fortifications.

Supplying shells to the gun: firing guns, preparing shells.

Self-propelled guns change positions France.

Destroyed French cities after German shelling.

Destroyed houses, broken things, residents inspect the ruins, residents remove the surviving things left after the collapse of houses.

Carrying the wounded and dead