Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Allied tanks and half tracks pass through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944
Downey, Jack,
photographer
still image
graphic
government publication
still image
Transparencies-Color.
xxu
1939
1943
monographic
[1944 Aug. 26]
eng
1 transparency : color.
Photo shows Free French tanks and half tracks of General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division passing through the Arc du Triomphe in Paris, probably on August 26, 1944. Sign at left "De Gaulle au pouvoir" and sign at right "Vive De Gaulle." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Wikimedia Commons)
No known restrictions on publication.
Number on jacket: K01; OWI number devised by Library staff.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Lot 12002.
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Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
World War, 1939-1945
Crowds
Streets
Military parades & ceremonies
Champs-Elysses (Paris, France)
France
Paris
LC-USW36-1 A
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a55001
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information color slides and transparencies collection (Library of Congress)
(DLC) 93845501
2017878930
LC-DIG-fsac-1a55001 DLC
LC-USW361-1 A DLC
hdl:loc.pnp/fsac.1a55001
aacr
gihc
DLC
850101
20250607082022.7
19980951
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