Photos Taken in France | World War II Database

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Matilda I tank of British 4th Royal Tank Regiment in France, 12 Jan 1940	2-inch mortar team of UK 2nd Warwickshire Regiment at Rumegies, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, 22 Jan 1940

General Victor Denain, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, and General Józef Zajac at the Polish Air Force training center at Bron, France, 27 Mar 1940; note MS 406 fighters	Men of D Company, 2nd Sherwood Foresters, UK 1st Division in a forward trench near Roches, France, 1 Apr 1940; Lance Corporal L. J. Harris seen shaving

German solder inspecting a captured St. Étienne Mle 1907 machine gun, France, May 1940	Maxime Weygang departing from the Élysée Palace where he had just been appointed the commander-in-chief of the French forces, Paris, France, May 1940

Rouen in flames during the German invasion, France, May 1940	Bombed hangar at Mourmelon-le-Grand, France after a German attack on the airfield, 14 May 1940; note wreck of a Miles Magister and at least two Fairey Battle aircraft

German soldiers with a 7.5cm le.IG 18 infantry gun, Maginot Line, France, May 1940	Interior of a He 111 P bomber while in flight over France, mid-May 1940

Vehicles of the German 4th Panzer Division in France, 17 May 1940	Maxime Weygand, Paul Baudouin, Paul Reynaud, and Philippe Pétain after a Council of Ministers meeting, Paris, France, 21 May 1940

French troops and H35 tanks advancing through a damaged village during the invasion of France, 25 May 1940.	Wrecked Light Tank Mk VIC on a road between Huppy and Saint-Maxent, Picardy, France, 27-29 May 1940

Calais, France in ruins, France, May 1940	Destroyed AMR 33 light tank, France, 1940

Destroyed Panhard Type 178 armored car, France, Jun 1940	Fritz Todt at Maubeuge, France, Jun 1940

German Generalleutnant Kurt Daluege visiting the Ouvrage Hackenberg fortification on the Maginot Line near Thionville, Moselle, France, May 1940; the party was entering the munitions entrance	German PzKpfw 35(t) and PzKpfw IV Ausf D tanks, France, Jun 1940