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French civilians gathering in front of damaged Église Notre-Dame-du-Vœu, Cherbourg, France, 22 Aug 1944	Polish resistance courier Alina Nawrocka posing before a disabled Italian-made PzKpfw 736(i) tank in Warsaw, Poland, 22 Aug 1944	Polish resistance fighter with K pattern flamethrower and wz.31 helmet near the Mała Pasta building, Warsaw, Poland, 22 Aug 1944	Polish resistance fighter with K pattern flamethrower near the Mała Pasta building, Warsaw, Poland, 22 Aug 1944

HMS Mauritius firing on German targets in Audierne Bay, France, 23 Aug 1944	Polish resistance fighter observing Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street from a collapsed wall of the Holy Cross Church, Warsaw, Poland, 23 Aug 1944; note captured German K98 rifle and helmet; the townhouses in the background were of addresses Krakowskie Przedmieście 10, 8, and 6	Remains of a German soldier killed during the Warsaw Uprising, Poland, 23 Aug 1944	Simone Segouin (nom de guerre Nicole Minet) posing with a MP 40 submachine gun, 23 Aug 1944

Aerial photo for bomb damage assessment on the synthetic oil factory at Ruhland, Germany following an Operation Frantic bombing strike on 21 Jun 1944 (24 Aug 1944 photo).	Concrete U-boat pens at Brest, France showing damage sustained after bombing attacks by the British Royal Air Force, Aug 1944	Polish resistance fighters of the Ruczaj Battalion guarding entrance of the Mala PASTa building at Piusa 19 Street (now 19 Piekna Street), Warsaw, Poland, circa 24 Aug 1944	American howitzer 'Miss Connie E' with its US Marine crew, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 25 Aug 1944

Charles de Gaulle, Philippe Leclerc, and others at Montparnasse railway station, Paris, France, 25 Aug 1944	Members of the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division sightseeing in Paris, France, Aug 25, 1944	USAAF intelligence aerial photograph of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp at Oświęcim, Poland taken 25 Aug 1944. This is a scan of an enlarged print taken from the original negative and captioned by the CIA in 1978.	A DUKW amphibious truck with a load of blood and medical personnel, southern French coast, 26 Aug 1944

Charles de Gaulle and his entourage at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France, 26 Aug 1944	French 2nd Armored Division troops and vehicles parading through the Arc de Triomphe down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, 26 Aug 1944	French civilians seeking cover as an unexpected German sniper opened fire at a group of American soldiers, Paris, France, 26 Aug 1944	LtGen George Patton as he prepares to offer congratulations to his Third Armored Division for sweeping across northern France and crossing the River Seine northwest of Paris, 26 Aug 1944