[French troops and Resistance fighters flushing the last of Germans out of the area between the Invalides and the Palais Bourbon, Paris]

[French civilian attacking a German soldier who was rooted out during street fighting, Paris]

[Celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[General Charles de Gaulle leading the parade down the Avenue des Champs-Elysées to celebrate the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Crowd on the pavement after snipers in buildings overlooking the Place de l'Hotel de Ville opened fire on the triumphal parade, Paris]

[Speakers at the meeting of the Unión Nacional Española, an organization of anti-fascist Spaniards had helped to liberate France, Toulouse, France]

[Farmer burying his horse, which had been killed during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[American paratroopers flying over the Rhine from France, to spearhead the Allied invasion of Germany]