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French Army returns to France. U.S. tanks of the French Army line a street of an English seaport town prior to embarkation for France to join the Allied Expeditionary Force. The tank crews are members of the crack Tchad Regiment, which made the famous trek across the desert in 1942 from French Equatorial Africa to join Allied troops fighting in North Africa.

French nuns negotiate surrender of Nazis. A French nun, negotiating the surrender of German troops hidden in a convent, talks with Captain Alfred J. Owen of Haugen, Montana, a member of a U.S. armored force driving on Ayranches. The German troops came out, hand over their heads, a few minutes later.

French Army returns to France. Major Henri Monfort of the Regiment de Marche du Tchad of the French Army (at extreme right) chats with other French officers on the docks of an English seaport as they await orders to board the Allied craft which transported them across the English Channel to France. The Tchad Regiment is famous for its long trek in 1942 across the desert to join Allied troops fighting ...

French civilians follow Allied march of liberation. French civilians walk down a road on their way home after Allied forces freed their village in Normandy from the Germans. American soldiers man a 50-caliber machine gun in the foreground.

French civillians welcom U.S. troops. French civillians give American armored units an enthusiastic welcome as they turn off the road to bivouac. These troops are part of the armored forces who made the lightning advance to the Loire which out off the Whole of Brittany with its three great ports and U-boat bases of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire.

French family returns to Marigny. Their child and personal goods bundled on bicycles, a French family returns to Marigny after American forces drove the Germans from the area July 26, 1944, the day after the mounting of the new American offensive west of St. Lo. Cutting across the German defenses, U.S. troops advanced across western Normandy into Brittany.

French civilians see progress of the war. French townsfolk examine some of the war pictures put up on a board outside the Civil Affairs office in St. Sauveur le Vicomte, Normandy, by the Psychological Warfare Division of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

Dijon girls welcome French troops. Girls of Dijon greet soldiers of the French Forces of the Interior as they march through the city after wresting it from Nazi control September 11th, 1944. The next day, the 7th U.S. Army, under command of Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch, which landed along the Riviera August 15th, joined with the Third U.S. Army, under command of Lieutenant General George S. ...

French Army returns to France. Major Henry Farrat (third from left), of the Tchad Regiment of the French Army, briefs, officers with a map at a marshalling area near the embarkation point in England. Lieutenant William Henderson of Lansing, Michigan (at left), is an American liaison officer with the regiment, which has joined the Allies again - this time in France. In 1942, this crack regiment, trained ...

French, American center in Canisy. Mayor Le Jeune and a French missionary priest, still wearing a helmet, discuss affairs of Canisy with two Allied Civil Affairs Division Officer, Lieutenant Colonel M.F.J. Brunow (left) and Major O.D. Culley, Jr., of the U.S. Army. Canisy was liberated by American forces in the opening days of the new American offensive launched west of St. Lo July 25, 1944.

French Air Chief on a visit to england. General J.L. Proliet, Chief of the French Air Force, arrived at Northolt in an R.A.F. Aircraft and is to remain for a week as the guest of the Aircouncil. General Proliet inspecting the Guard of Honour on his arrival.

French refugees from Nazi invasion ----1940. Using any means of available transport, French refugees with bundles of their belongings move along a road in an attempt to finf shelter from the Nazi bombers and armored forces which are driving them out of their homes during the German advance on Paris in 1940.