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French refugees seek refuge with the Allies. French civilian refugees, some of them mothers with babies in their arms, seek refuge with American troops in a beachhead area in Normandy following the Allied Expeditionary Force landings June 6, 1944. One small boy wears an American soldier's cap.

French Army returns to France. U.S. manufactured tanks of the French Army rumble through the streets of an English seaport town on route to embarkation to France. The tank crews are part of the crack Tchad regiment, which made the famous march in 1942 from French Equatorial Africa across the desert to join Allied forces in North Africa. In 1944, the regiment has joined the Allies once more - this time ...

French youths symbolise spirit of France. Three young Frenchmen lie in wait with their guns in a cornfield near Rennes, their faces symbolising the fighting spirit of France. Members of the French Forces of the Interior, whose distinguishing amrbands they wear, these boys lost one of their comrades two days before this picture was taken. He was killed by a German officier but in turn the youth killed ...

French Army returns to France. Janet Leary of Mexico, New York (left), and Anne Logan of Los Angeles, California, American Red Cross girls stationed at an English seaport town, pass doughnuts around to members of a tank crew in the French Army. The men and their American-manufactured tank are en route to France to join the Allied Expeditionary Force in the fight to free the country from the Nazis. ...

French flyers again fight Germans from home bases. Private Roy Tiefeld of Chicago, Illinois, operates a copy camera in one of the recesses of a wine cellar in an old French chateau where a reconnaissance group of the French-American First Tactical Air Force set up its photo laboratory. Gebwebbed bettles and casks were removed from the dark wine collar and, after wiring was installed along the vaulted ...

French flyers again fight germans from home bases. Private Roy Tiefeld of Chicago, Illinois, operates a copy camera in one of the recesses of a wine cellar in an old French chateau where a recennaissance group of the French-American First Tactical Air Force set up its photo laboratory. Gebwebbed bottles and casks were removed from the dark wine collar and, after wiring was installed along the vaulted ...

Italians gather to greet French troops who helped liberate Siena. The population of Siena gathers in the historic square to greet the French troops who helped drive the Germans from the city on July 3, 1944. While French and American troops were entering Siena, the Russian Army continued its swift advance towards the German frontier and Allied forces were pushing the Germans back in Normandy.

Allied tanks keep rolling onto French beaches. An Allied armered vehicle named Berlin Bound rolls down the gangplank of a landing craft onto the French beaches. A never-ending flow of military equipment-tanks, guns, ammunition and supplies-is surging across the English Channel to add to the overwhelming strength of the Allied Expeditionary Force in France.

French Admiral opens first naval headquarters in Normandy. Rear Admiral Georges Thierry dÁrgenlieu Commander-in-Chief of French Naval Forces in the United Kingdom, seated at his desk in the first French naval headquarters in liberated France, talks with his Chief of Staff. One of the first to enlist under General Charles de Gaulle, Admiral dÁrgenlieu made his way to England in June, 1940, after escaping ...

U.S. tanks andvance through french forest. M-4 American tanks follow a path torn through a forest in France by proceding armor. Two U.S. Armies have carried their offensive directly from Alsace into the Reich. The Seventh U.S. Army crossed the Alsation border December 15, 1944, near Wissembourg, France, after contacting forces of the Third U.S. Army which had previously driven into the Reich in an ...

Allied troops surge forward to French beaches. American soldiers of the Allied forces which hit the shores of France during the initial landings June 6, 1944, lie down in the water under a heavy Nazi artillery and machine gun barrage, while some of their comrades follow closely behind the tanks plunging through the water. Those lying in the water have taken up positions behind beach obstacles for ...