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Libération de Paris

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

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID: (digital file from original transparency) fsac 1a55001 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a55001
Date Taken on 26 August 1944
Source Image:Paris1944.jpg
Author United States Federal Government (REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA). Edited by User:Aqwis.
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