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French nuns negotiate surrender of Nazis. A French nun gives her hand to an American armored officer, a member of the force driving on Avranches, after negotiating the surrender of German troops hiding in a convent. The German troops came out, hands over their heads, a few minutes later.

U.S. General Ben Lear honored by French. Colonel Brunschwig (left) of the French Army presents the cross of Commander of the Legion of Honor to Lieutenant General Ben Lear of Washington, D.C., Deputy Theater Commander, U.S. Forces, European Theater, at a ceremony in Paris Juli 9, 1945.

U.S. troops attend Mass in French orchard. Father William Dempsey, New York City, celebrates Mass underneath a giant apple tree in an orchard on the first Sunday after the Allied Expeditionary Force landed in Normandy. Some of the kneeling American troops still carry their rifles.

French patriots examine captures German mortar in Normandy. French patriots raise their flag over a six-barrelled German mortar which was abandoned by the retroating enemy at its position in the mouth of a cave near Floury-sur-Orne, liberated as British troops smashed through Caen. The cave was also used as an ammunition dump by the Germans. As British and Canadian troops continued their advance into ...

'General Eisenhower lands on French beachhead. Generaal Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Allied Expeditionary Force, leans over the side of an amphibious 'duck' on a beachhead in Northern France to consult with one of his unit commanders during an inspection tour of the French front June 12, 1944. At right, Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in -Chief of U.S. Fleet, looks over the side ...

U.S. Military Chiefs inspect French Front. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, stands in the center between Generaal Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General U.S. Army Air Forces, and General George C. Marshall, Chief-of-Staff U.S. Army, and in front of Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet, during a tour of the French Front.

Newall, Sir Cyril British Air Mission meet French Chief of Air Staff in Paris. Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall (left) shaking hands with General Vuillemin. Other members of the british Mission are also in the picture.

Allied French troops parade in freed Rome. To the strains of their National Anthem, troops of the French Expeditionary Forces march through a plaza in liberated Rome. Rising majestically in the background is the monument to King Victor Emanuel II whose reign ended with his death in 1878. Fighting alongside their American, British and Polish allies against the Germans, these soldiers of the Free France, ...

A pitiful retreat. So looked the retreat streets of the Frenchs. Returning inhabitants have to force their way through the entanglement of smashed tanks.

American soldier eats with French airmen at Alllied air base in Sardinia. A member of the U.S. armed forces (right), the only American soldier with the French Air Force, jokes as he dines with his French companions at an Allied air base on the Island of Sardinia, off the west coast of Italy. From Sardinian bases, French crews fly American-built B-26 Marauder medium bombers in raids on German targets ...

French leave their homes as battle rages for Cherbourg. Frenchmen piled their belongings into carts and wagons and left their homes in Cherbourg to escape bombs and shells as the Nazis resisted U.S. forces. The Nazis surrendered to the Americans, June 27, 1944, three weeks after the first Allied landings on the Normandy beaches.

French children wave at Canadian tanks rolling through Norman village. French children wave at Canadian tanks rolling through positions where Allied forces are forcing back the Germans. Since the initial landings of American, British and Canadian ground troops on the north coast of France, overwhelming Allied force has driven the enemy from scores of Norman villages, from strategic Cherbourg harbor, ...