French announcement by General Wilsonn found on coast of Southern France on 15 July 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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461.Photograph. 'File Number 242129 September 5, 1944 Battle of Words in France Topping Marshall Philippe Petain's defeatist warning to the people of France not to aid the Allies or sabotage the Germans 'dans l'interet de votre sauvegarde' is the announcement by General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson: 'Les armees des Nations Unies out debarque dan le Midi . . . Vive l'ame de la France,, at tout ce qu'elle represente' 'The armies of the United Nations have landed in the Midi. . . . Long live the soul of France, and all she represents.' The posters were found pasted in the town of Provence, near the sector where the Allies landed on the coast of Southern France on July 15, 1944.' 5 September 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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