PowerPoint Show by Andrew

“There were flowers blooming everywhere, and everywhere the people waited for the news from England. It was as though the whole nation stood on tiptoe, straining to hear the thunder of guns.”

Troops and civilians pass the time on the River Thames in the spring of 1944

American troops eat a meal set on top of boxes of ammunition amid preparation for the D-Day invasion of France

An African-American stacks gas cans prior to D-Day

Heading to the ships on D-Day

Approaching Omaha beach on D-Day invasion of Europe

Along the coast of France - June, 1944

GI’s search ruined homes in western France after D-Day

An abandoned German machine gun, France, June 1944

American soldiers stand guard behind captured German soldiers

An American tank crew (one in a top hat) rested on the way through the town of Avaranches in the weeks following the successful invasion of Normandy

Two days after D-Day, a soldier drives past a P 38 fighter getting ready for a mission

American troops stand beside a World War 1 monument bedecked with French flags after the town (exact location unknown) was liberated from German occupying forces, summer 1944.

French women and a little girl pose with a group of American troops shortly after they forced German soldiers out of the area

Church services in France - 1944

An American Army chaplain kneels next to a wounded soldier in order to administer the Eucharist and Last Rites, France, 1944.

A crew works on an American P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane in a makeshift airfield in the countryside following the invasion of Normandy, in August 1944

Allied forces drive tanksinto Paris after liberationon August 16, 1944

On Aug. 26, 1944, American army trucks paraded the day after liberation of Paris

Men carting large painted British and American flags for use in parade the day after the liberation of Paris by Allied troops

Sign carrying civilians march in parade the day after the liberation of Paris

After the French capitol was liberated in August, 1944

Crowds line the street to greet American soldiers after the liberation of Paris

A French couple shares cognac with an American tank crew, northern France, summer 1944