Photos Taken in France | World War II Database

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Notre-Dame de Reims cathedral, Reims, France, May 1945	Personnel of a US Army bomb disposal unit with a 500-pound bomb, France, May 1945; left to right: Cpl Moore, Bill Woolfolk, McKim, Kenneth Tracy, Donald Woods, Robert Anderson, Woody Riner, Arthur Tracy, Dale Witt, Vernon Lachman

US Army bomb disposal personnel at a monument, France, May 1945	US Army bomb disposal personnel with a disarmed bomb, France, May 1945

US Army serviceman at the remnants of a bridge, France, May 1945	After Germany’s surrender papers were signed at Reims, France 7 May 1945, Soviet General Ivan Susloparov and his aide met with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower.

ColGen Alfred Jodl approaching the table with the documents of surrender, Reims, France, 7 May 1945. His aide, Maj Wilhelm Oxenius, is on the left and Kriegsmarine Admiral Hans-Georg Von Friedeburg is on the right	Generals Susloparov, Morgan, Smith, Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Tedder after signing of German surrender documents, Rheims, France, 7 May 1945, photo 1 of 3; note Eisenhower holding pens used

Generals Susloparov, Morgan, Smith, Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Tedder after signing of German surrender documents, Rheims, France, 7 May 1945, photo 2 of 3; note Eisenhower holding pens used	Generals Susloparov, Morgan, Smith, Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Tedder after signing of German surrender documents, Rheims, France, 7 May 1945, photo 3 of 3; note Eisenhower holding pens used

Jodl signing surrender documents at Eisenhower's headquarters, flanked by Major Wilhelm Oxenius and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Reims, France, 7 May 1945, photo 1 of 4	Jodl signing surrender documents at Eisenhower's headquarters, flanked by Major Wilhelm Oxenius and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Reims, France, 7 May 1945, photo 2 of 4

Jodl signing surrender documents at Eisenhower's headquarters, flanked by Major Wilhelm Oxenius and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Reims, France, 7 May 1945, photo 3 of 4	Jodl signing surrender documents at Eisenhower's headquarters, flanked by Major Wilhelm Oxenius and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Reims, France, 7 May 1945, photo 4 of 4

LtGen Bedell Smith signing the documents of Germany’s surrender, Reims, France, 7 May 1945. British Adm Harold Burrough is on the left. Soviet Gen Ivan Susloparov is on the extreme right.	Officers gather around a table at Eisenhower’s headquarters to sign the instruments of the German surrender, Reims, France, 7 May 1945. Photo 1 of 2

Officers gather around a table at Eisenhower’s headquarters to sign the instruments of the German surrender, Reims, France, 7 May 1945. Photo 2 of 2	Soviet General Ivan Susloparov signing the documents of Germany's surrender, Reims, France, 7 May 1945. His aide is on the left and USAAF LtGen Carl Spaatz on the right.

Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower and Deputy Supreme Commander Arthur Tedder making the formal announcement that Germany had signed the surrender, Reims, France, 7 May 1945.	The schoolhouse in Reims, France used by Eisenhower as the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF). This is also where the first German surrender was signed on 7 May 1945.