Smoke still rises from gutted buildings in Argenten, France, where the Germans were pounded into surrender by U.S.

Smoke still rises from gutted buildings in Argenten, France, where the Germans were pounded into surrender by U.S. planes and artillery August 20, 1944. Troops of the Third U.S. Army plunged through blasted Argenten to close one arm of the Falaise Gap, where at least 60,000 Nazis surrendered to American, British and Canadian forces.