United States airmen at Alto Air Base in Corsica, France during World War II. Women perform on a stage during a ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) show for U.S. Army airmen at the air base (akin to the USO, but British based). The soldiers clap as they watch the artists perform. Women in grass skirts, gowns, and shorter skirts perform on the stage. Girls in skirts dance to entertain the airmen. Soldiers smile, laugh, and clap. An airman also performs on the stage, imitating a girl dancing.
United States airmen at Borgo air base in Corsica, France during World War II. A wrecked Royal Air Force Wellington bomber at Borgo air base and a crane next to it. An aircraft in flight over the air base. The crane near the nose section of the aircraft. A sign on the fuselage reads 'Johny Quaker, the Jerry Shaker'.
Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. French and German wounded being laid on straw in a truck at Marseilles by FFI (French Forces of the Interior) men. The wounded lying on the straw in a truck. Two wounded soldiers seated as one with a bandage on his head smokes a cigarette. FFI men carry a wounded on a stretcher.
A festival in Cannes, France. Crowds watching parade.Several bands parade and play, including some representing French colonies, one in berets, another in yarmulkes, and yet, another, in fezes, carrying a Moroccan symbol on a pole .View of horse track and a horse race. Women in costumes on carriages drawn by horses along street. Flowered covered floats of various kinds,including one of an airplane, with boys riding in it. Views of palm lined streets and waterfront in Cannes. A woman in traditional hat of French Indochina.
Several men and women enter the Colonne de Juilliet (July Column) at the center of the Place de la Bastille, in Paris, France. View of the Spirit of Liberty Statue, sculpted by Auguste Dumont, atop the tower. Men and women emerge from internal stairs in the column and walk out onto circular balcony. A man with beard is setting up an instrument to measure the sway of the tower. He checks readings on the instrument. He discusses the action of the instrument with a woman. Another woman near railing looks down. The Eiffel Tower is visible in the distance. View of instrument plunger reacting to the tower's sway. A heavy woman enters the tower. As she walks about on the balcony, the sway meter responds strongly.
New York Daily News, August 26, 1944, headline reads 'Nazis yield, Paris freed'. United States soldiers carry American flag on a tank into Paris during World War II. Celebrating French population cheer on Allied soldiers after the withdrawal of German forces from the French capital. Aerial view of huge crowd near The Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France).
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