[Miners giving the salute of the Popular Front at the Bastille Day parade, Paris]

[May Day celebration, Paris]

[Group in car celebrating the Popular Front victory in the recent national elections, Paris]

[Bastille Day parade float featuring the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky, who was revered by the international Communist movement and had died a few weeks earlier, Paris]

[Men in gas masks and protective suits during a civil-defense drill, Paris]

[Curb traders on the porch of the Bourse (stock exchange), Paris]

[Transporting a barrage balloon, to be moored over the harbor to confuse enemy aircraft and to prevent them from flying in low, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[German soldier captured by American forces, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[German soldiers captured by American forces burying some of the men killed during the D-Day landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[Using the hood of a jeep as an altar, a Roman Catholic chaplain saying mass at the inauguration of an American cemetery, Omaha Beach, Normandy]

[German general surrendering to American officers, Normandy]

[American soldiers amid rubble, Normandy]

[American soldiers in woods, Normandy]

[French civilians returning to their liberated town, near Gavray, Normandy]

[Women with bundles walking on rubble-strewn street, Normandy]

[Interior of rubble-filled church, Normandy]

[American solder resting after a town has been liberated from the Germans, Normandy]

[Early on the morning of the day on which Paris would be liberated by the French 2ème Division Blindée (2nd Armored Division), the division's commander General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc (second from left) confers with his staff, south of Paris]

[French civilians and members of the Resistance helping the French troops root out pockets of German snipers after the entry into the city of the French 2nd Armored Division, Paris]

[French civilians and members of the Resistance helping the French troops root out pockets of German snipers after the entry into the city of the French 2nd Armored Division, Paris]

[French civilians and members of the resistance helping the French troops root out pockets of German snipers in street fighting after the entry into the city of the French 2nd Armored Division, Paris]

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

[Celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Man and boy on his shoulders watching the parade celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]