Photos Taken in France | World War II Database

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British and American troops join with residents of Courseulles-sur-Mer in Bastille Day ceremonies at the town’s War Memorial. Courseulles-sur-Mer was the first town in Normandy to be liberated by the Allies.	US Army soldiers and jeeps on their way to the front lines, Saint-Lô, France, Jul 1944

US Army soldiers seeking shelter, Saint-Lô, France, Jul 1944	View of the bocage country near Hill 32 and near Notre-Dame-du-Rocher, Basse-Normandie, France, circa Jul-Aug 1944

American military convoy moving through Saint-Lô, France, Jul 1944	Commanding officer Lieutenant Fathergill of B Squadron, 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps, UK 34th Tank Brigade cleaning a BESA machine gun with two other members of his Churchill tank crew, France, 17 Jul 1944

Trooper E. McGuiness, gunner of a Churchill tank of B Squadron, 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps, UK 34th Tank Brigade in France, 17 Jul 1944	Bernard Montgomery showing Winston Churchill a map held by Gen GG Symonds, during Churchill's visit to Normandy, 22 Jul 1944. Behind Churchill is LGen Miles Dempsey.

Winston Churchill, Bernard Montgomery, and Miles Dempsey crossing the Orne River in Caen, France during Churchill’s inspection tour, 22 Jul 1944. This bridge was thereafter known as “The Winston Bridge.”	A Tiger II tank of German 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion wrecked after being rammed by a Sherman tank driven by Lieutenant John Reginald Gorman of British 2nd Armoured Irish Guards on 18 Jul 1944, with most of the German crew captured, Cagny, France, circa late Jul 1944

US Army African-American soldiers T/5 Dexter Clayton and M/Sgt. Nelson T. Ewing tying wire to form a fence, France, 25 Jul 1944; note Springfield M1903 rifle and M1 Carbine (partially hidden)	A delegation of high-ranking Soviet officers visiting General Montgomery’s headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 26 Jul 1944.

Canadian officers enter Château de Rots, Normandy, France. Left to right they are Colonel Richard S Malone, Lt General Henry Crerar (Commander, 1st Canadian Army) and Major Austin.	US Army convoy passing through the remains of Saint-Lô, France during the Normandy invasion, 29 Jul 1944; note Jeeps, CCKW 2-1/2 ton transports, Studebaker M29 Weasel, and Dodge WC54 field ambulance

Two French boys watched from a hilltop as Allied vehicles passed through the badly damaged city of Saint-Lô, France, circa Jul-Aug 1944	Sergeant F. J. Petrie and sapper L. Roberts examining a captured German Panzerschreck weapon, south of Caumont, France, 31 Jul 1944

Aerial view of the bocage country at the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, France, mid- or late-1944	American M3 Half-track vehicle crossing the Seine River in France, 1944

American M5A1 Stuart light tanks moving through Avranches, Mache, Basse-Normandie, France, mid- to late-1944	British Rifleman Reg Oates and Sergeant James Woodward with a PIAT anti-tank launcher near Caen, France, 1944