# WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 176 \[SEPT. 18\]

National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39201, LI 208-WP-176 - WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 176 \[SEPT. 18\] - DVD Copied by Justin Grimes. Series: Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels, compiled 1943 - 1945. Part 1, U.S. troops are warmly greeted by Fr. town-folk. Nazi collaborationists are abused as they are marched through the streets. Abandoned Ger. clothing is salvaged by civilians. De Gaulle enters Chartres, and greets and then confers with Gens. Eisenhower and Koenig. Ger. prisoners are unloaded from trucks. Naval guns pound shore installations and landing craft goes ashore. Prisoners are herded along the beach. Brit. ships, including the Rodney, bombard a channel port; RAF pilots are pulled from the sea onto the Rodney; the Rodney and a Ger. battleship exchange fire. Tanks advance across a field, enter a town, and demolish buildings. Collaborationists are led from their hiding places. Ger. prisoners, one of whom is drunk, are questioned. Flamethrowing tanks advance; troops cross the Seine on a pontoon bridge; Fr. civilians and allied troops remove obstructions from roads. Allied troops are warmly greeted by civilians as they enter Paris. Part 2, Winston Churchill rides through an Italian town; troops cheer; Churchill autographs an artillery shell and then is driven away.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1944
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: War, Education, News
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.39201)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.