3-023-443 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

French Military Vehicles and Soldiers Crossing the Belgian Frontier To Take up Defensive Positions To Resist the German Advance, 1940. Second World War. '...in the south, they lifted their barriers to let in the British and the French, allowing them to dart forward to take up a line along the...Meuse. General Gamelin's long-envisaged Plan D: to dash to save the neutrals once they were neutrals no longer. And so they leapt forward...'. From "Time To Remember - Run Rabbit Run", 1940 ( Reel 2); documentary film about events of early months of 1940.