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French Commissioner greets French Air Force in North Africa. Pilots and crew members of the French Air Forces in North Africa are greeted by the French Air Commissioner, Fernand Grenier, during his inspection tour of equipment and personnel. In the background is a U.S. Marauder bomber.

. The Stars and Stripes. EXTRA. Daily Newspaper of the U.S. Armed Forces in the Europese Theater of Operations. Paris Edition. Vol 1. No. 279. Wednesday, May 2, 1945. HITLER DEAD. The German radio announced last night [..] (voorpagina). Yanks at Okinawa's 2nd largest city. 1,500 Japs die in fierce fight outside of Shuri. V-E day likely to bring spurt in legislation. Nation's airplines expand despite ...

Het herdenkingsmonument voor Geallieerde Militairen te Eemdijk is opgericht ter nagedachtenis aan de omgekomen vliegers op 21 november 1944 en 7 april 1945. De namen van de slachtoffers luiden: Robert F. Brooks, John W. Cahill, Francis Delery, Patrick J. Flaherty, Lewis R. Hoyall, Frank H. Pietszch, Bennie F. Tillotson en John S. Todd. Op 21 november 1944 begint een Amerikaanse B-24H liberator - met ...

French fishermen watch liberation forces. French fishermen, idle since the Germans blocked their fishing boats by demolishing the channel to Anchorage, watch the progress of Allied landings from a barbed wire-strewn beach at Grand Camp, Normandy.

French Air Force Chief meets famous Lorraine Squadron. General Valin and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, chatting with members of the famous French Larraine Squadron.

Dutch soldier serves with French Forces of the Interior. This Dutch member of the French Forces of the Interior serves as interpreter at headquarters in Chartres, liberated from the Germans August 17, 1944. He speaks Frensch, German and English and was wounded in the ankle fighting against the Nazis.

French cheer the advance of U.S. Force. French men, women and children turn out to cheer the advance of American motorized troops rushing to the battle of Cherbourg. Under pressure of General Omar N. Bradley's American forces ringing the harbor, the German commander of Cherbourg is reported to have ordered leaders of every military grade to shoot on sight any man who leaves his post because of cow ...

French chief of staff sees Royal Air Force display. Dropping of Paratroops from Dakotas of Transport Command during the display.

Women fight with French Forces of the Interior. Womem members of the French Forces of the Interior, dressed in battle uniform and carrying grenades on their belts, chat on a Brittany street during a pause in the Battle of France. They act as guides and scouts for the Allied armies, and assist in mopping up Germans in captured towns. Supreme Allied Headquarters on Augstus 16, 1944, said that FFI units ...