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Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees

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Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees — archival photograph
Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Free French tanks and half tracks of General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division passes through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 26, 1944.

The year

1944
Photographer
Jack Downey, U.S. Office of War Information
Date
1944
Licence
Public domain
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowds_of_French_patriots_line_the_Champs_Elysees.jpg
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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