Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees
to view Free French tanks and half tracks of General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division passes through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 26, 1944
- Date
- 1944-08-26
- Photographer / author
- Jack Downey, U.S. Office of War Information
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,282 × 5,704 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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