On August 29, 1944, American troops marched down the Champs Elysee as the French capital celebrated its liberation from the Nazis.
American soldiers watch as the Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again, August 1944.
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Saturday, 29 August 2009
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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The dash for Paris enabled several hundred thousand German soldiers to escape back to Germany to fight the allies as they entered Germany. The same thing happened in Italy and the race to Rome.
Generals Clarke, Patton and DeGaulle should have been put up against a wall and shot for sabotaging the Allied war effort. They were a bunch of glory hounds.
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