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The 163th bataillon left Metz, yesterday march 9, for the east fortifications on the maginot line. The french troops leaving Metz yesterday.

President Lebrun inspects 'Peace Emblem' Roses planted along Maginot Line. President Lebrun, in center, between L. Generals Loizeaux, governer of Metz, and R. Beaudfin, followed by mr. Paquel, in civilian clothes, during his tour of inspection in the barracks of Saint Jean, near Boulaye.

With the British troops in France. An advanced post of the maginot line in the British zone. Three soldiers with rifles and one with a bren grun on the look-out.

Lord Gort leaves to inspect Maginot Line. Lord Gort (left) shaking hands with his pilot, Wing Commander H.R. Goode, before taking off at Hendon.

U.S. soldier inspects gun in Maginot fortress. An American infantryman inspects a French 75 mm. piece inside the captured Maginot Line fortress at Simserhof, located north-west of Bitche, France. The giant, Nazi-occupied stronghold was taken December 19, 1944, by the Seventh U.S. Army after being subjected to a five-day pounding by American planes and artillery.

A delegation of American newspapermen visit the front line. A group of American journalists, among whom is Mr. Rickenbacker (wearing cap) who made known the fact that the Nazi leaders had huge sums of money deposited abroad. They visited the Maginot Line.

German infantry worming their way to the front. A German infantry advance guard on their march to the front lines somewhere in Nomansland between Siegfried and Maginot Lines.

M. Daladier in Tunis. Tanks rolling through the streets of Tunis in the great military review which preceded Daladier's departure for the South where he inspected Tunisia's Maginot Line.

Shave by the wayside for french frontier troops. A military barber working by the wayside at Urmatt behind the Maginot line of France's eastern frontier.

American infantrymen views sample of U.S. artillery firepower. A U.S. infantry soldier gazes at a hole blasted by U.S. artillery through a solid steel-reinforced concrete wall of a Maginot Line fortress on the French frontier. The accuracy of American fire is attested to by the eight inch dud shell lying in the left foreground below a gun turret. After five days of pounding from the ground and air, ...