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Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees-edit2

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. Among the crowd can be seen banners in support of Charles de Gaulle.

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
7,210 × 5,663 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).

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"Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees-edit2" (1944-08-26). Jack Downey, U.S. Office of War Information. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowds_of_French_patriots_line_the_Champs_Elysees-edit2.jpg

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