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U.S. soldiers wave farewell to French children. Enroute to an embarkation port in France, where they will board a ship for the U.S., Staff Sergeant Carl Hamilton (left) of Frew, Kentucky; Sergeant Joseph Lolla (center) of Brooklyn, N.Y.: and Corporal Edward Wenz (right) of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, wave farewell to two French children. The men, all members of the 386th Bomber Group, Ninth U.S. ...

General Eisenhower presents bronze SHAEF insignia to French capital. A bronze replica of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force insignia, presented to the city of Paris by General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander in Chief of the SHAEF organization, has been placed at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in the French capital. The plaque of the flaming ...

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. A French child suffering from inflamed tonsils obliges by opening wider ...

Het originele bijschrift luidt: French colonial troops escape to fight again. French colonial troops from a famous Senegalese regiment, who were captured by the Germans in 1940 and forced to work in labor details, chat with a French officer and an American sergeant soon after their escape to the American lines in Normandy. They said they wanted to join Allied forces and carry on the fight against the ...

General Eisenhower presents bronse SHAEF insignia to French capital. Major General John Lewis, acting on behalf of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, formerly Supreme Commander in Chief Allied Expeditionary Force, signs the Livre d'Or during ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe, September 8, 1945, when a bronze replica of the SHAEF insignia was presented to the City of Paris. Attending the unveiling ...

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. Yhe occupying German forces made no effort to treat civilians or even allow French doctors into the area. Corporal William D. Quarles of Chattanooga, Tennessee, bandages the injured ...

French General honored by Americans. Brigadier General C.O. Thrasher (left), U.S. Army Commander of the Oise Intermediate Section, pins the Legion of Merit medal on General de Division Marie Henry Pierre Preaud, Commander of the Second Military Region of France, in a ceremony at Reims, France, Aug. 4. 1945. General Preaud was honoured for distinguished service in supporting U.S. Forces during the German ...

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. Captain Charles N. Hoyt of Glenview, Chicago, Illinois, gives a French ...

Shot down during French landing. First Lieutenant Norman T. Johnson, Vernal, Utah, faces the NBC microphone in England with a smile. Shot down by enemy small arms fire in Normandy, June 27, 1944, the Ninth U.S. Air Force Thunderbolt pilot crash-landed in a field strewn with German obstacles. An advanced patrol of American paratroopers found him and steered him back to the beachhead miles away.

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, examines one of ...

French grandmother is tended by U.S. medical officer. Injured while .... from the Germans near Periers, road junction in northern France, a French grandmother receives first aid from a U.S. Army medical officer. Her family, including a totale-headed grandchild with its bottle, watches with interest. It was near Periers that American forces on July 25, 1944 began the drive that in two weeks hurled the ...

France welcomes the victors. French civilians toss flowers to U.S. troops in armored vehicles as they advance through the village of St. Sauveur Lendelin. These troops are part of the force who took part in the rapid Allied sweep into Brittany, resulting in the capture of Rennes by U.S. troops August 4, 1944.