Liberated French greet their liberators in France in June 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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473.Photograph. 'File No: 59434 June 15, 1944 Liberated French Greet Their Deliverers The welcome extended the Americans in this captured French town was a varied one. While the soldiers tried to explain American money to several inhabitants, eyes of the others were directed at the U. S. Navy cameraman. Except those of the two girls at the left to them the sight of friendly planes overhead was more important.' 15 June 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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Normandie
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People--France
Children--France
Soldiers--American--France