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U.S. Army salavage diver prepares to clear French river bed. This U.S. Army diver prepares to descend to the bottom of a French river bed to remove obstructions placed by the Germans. The channel clearance is part of the Allied reconstruction program in liberated France. Experts are clearing transportation systems as fast as the enemy is forced to retreat, aiding restoration of normal activites and ...

American troops advance in France. A French woman watches from her front yard as U.S. troops advance down a road leading to St. Lo. The Nazis were driven from St. Lo July 18 as Allied forces continued their advance in France.

French Army receives U.S. supplies. Wheel assemblies for two and one-half ton trucks, shipped from the U.S. to North Africa under a lend-lease agreement, are put together by French soldiers. American military equipment and supplies are moving regularly to the French fighting forces.

U.S. doctors provide medical care for French civilians. In a liberated town in Normandy, Ninth U.s. Air Force doctors have established a service for civilians who have been without medical treatment for more than four years. The occupying German Forces made no effort to treat civilians or even allow French doctors into the area. A small patient perched on the knee of Corporal Walter C. Provost of Laconia, ...

De toegang tot Belfort, waaruit de Duitschers juist zijn weggetrokken' 'Belfort battle ends! Lone French soldier guards the deserted entrance to Belford, while his comrades enter the city to flush out the remaining remnants of the stubborn German force wich weakened under crushing French First army blows.

Stockpile. French Army receives U.S. supplies. Wheel assembles for two and one-half ten trucks, shipped from the U.S. to North Africa under a lend-lease agreement, are put together by French soldiers. American military equipment and supplies are moving regularly to the French fighting forces.

U.S. doctors provide medical care for French civilians. In a liberated town in Normandy, Ninth U.s. Air Force doctors have established a service for civilians who have been without medical treatment for more than four years. The occupying German Forces made no effort to treat civilians or evenallow French doctors into the area. Captain Charles N. Hoyt of Glenview, Chicago, Illinois, attached to the ...

The French railroads run again. At the heels of the Allied armies which drove the German invaders from France, an army of 15,000 U.S. Transport Corps soldiers under Brigadier General C.L. Burpee rebuilt within five months from D-Day (June 6, 1944) 2,400 kilometers of double and single track railways which had been hammered in turn by the British Royal Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces and the German ...

U.s. gliders over French coast. C-47 transports, towing gliders of the Ninth U.S. Air Force Troop Carrier Command, rear over the French coast from the haze of the English Channel, carrying American infantrymen to reinforce Allied airborne troops landed carlier in the morning. These planes, part of the greatest air armada over assembled, provide a shuttle service of men and supplies across the Channel ...

Allied physicians care for French baby. Lieutenant Samuel J. Ravitch of Quincy, Florida, U.S. Army medical officer assigned to a Civil Affairs unit in France, tends a French baby in Fontenay-sur-Mer with Eugenia Fuchs (center) former surgeon with the Russian forces at Leningrad who was impressed into the TODT Organization by her Nazi captors, and Louise Pörtman (right) a Swiss member of the Meidcal ...

War comes to St. Sauveur. French residents of the little Normandy town of St. Sauveur watch as an American paratrooper marches a German sniper through the streets to Allied headquarters. St. Sauveur le Vicomte was captured after bitter fighting by American troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force during their drive across the Cherbourg Peninsula.

Bastille Day rites for French patriot-priest killed by Nazi mine in Normandy. Altar boys lead the funeral procession through Barfleur on Bastille Day July 14, 1944, for Abbe Jules Gaslonde, French priest killed by a mine left by the Nazis in their retreat before Allied forces. Note the Allied officers saluting at lower right. Former vicar of a village near St. Lo, Abbe Gaslonde was transferred when ...