Photos Taken in France | World War II Database

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A section of the to-be-installed bomb-proof tunnel entrance doors, German V2 site at Wizernes, France, Sep 1944	British Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory at a squadron briefing in France, Sep 1944

Drawing of the German V2 site at Wizernes, France, Sep 1944	Generals Miles Dempsey and Dwight Eisenhower in the back of a Jeep during a meeting at Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s headquarters in northern France, Sep 1944.

German coastal artillery the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, France, probably autumn of 1944; note concrete casemate still under construction	Philippe Leclerc, circa 1944

Philippe Leclerc, circa 1944	Philippe Leclerc, circa 1944

Spitfire LF VIII of 451 Squadron RAAF with USN blimp K-112 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-14 at French naval air base, Cuers-Pierrefeu, near Toulon, France, Sep 1944.	US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo trucks unloading supplies from US Navy LSTs in Marseille, France, Sep 1944

US Army soldiers fighting in the streets of Brest, France during the mop up operations, Sep 1944	Field Marshal Montgomery stands up in his 1943 Humber Super Snipe staff car as he crosses a pontoon bridge over the River Seine at Vernon, France, 1 Sep 1944.

Prince Felix of Luxembourg, General Bernard Montgomery, French Colonel Candeau, and Brigadier General Christopher Peto at 21st Army Group headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 1 Sep 1944.	US Army personnel observing dummy Junkers Ju-88 bombers left behind at the airfield at Épinay, France, 2 Sep 1944.

A French Army colonel awarding Operation Jedburgh personnel Jean Larrieu the Croix de Guerre with Palm, Place Bellecour, Lyon, France, 5 Sep 1944	C-47 Skytrains of the 439th Troop Carrier Group preparing to transport the 82nd Airborne to Nijmegen for Operation Market Garden, Juvincourt, France, Sep 8-17 1944

A German gun emplacement located near the town of Ste. Marie du Mont near Utah Beach, showing damage inflicted by Allied gunfire during the Normandy invasion; photo taken 10 Sep 1944	Damaged muzzle brake of a German 88mm gun, located in one of Utah Beach's gun emplacements; photo taken on 15 Sep 1944

Shell damage to a German concrete 37mm gun emplacement on Utah Beach, Normandy; photo taken 15 Sep 1944	13 Liberty Ships deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater for invasion vessels landing on the Normandy beachhead lie in line off the beach shielding the ships in shore.