The liberation of France: Oradour-sur-Glane
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Gelatin silver print on paper
20th c French Photography
Sacha Guitry, French actor and playwright, interrogated at the Hôtel de Ville about his relations with the Germans upon the liberation of Paris
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c French Photography
Two of the thousands who fell in the Battle for the Beachland sprawl out on a hillside in Normandy, near the beach where the Allies first landed
United States Navy Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c American Photography
“Ducks” (amphibious trucks) and a half-track follow foot troops ashore during opening of Allied invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy coast
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Photo of shattered German defenses on a Normandy beach shows the strength and intricacy of the fortifications that Allied assault troops faced
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Somewhere in Normandy, two tanks fire their bazookas at a German tank, with camera, recording the moment when the tank goes up in smoke and flame
Unknown Photographer
Wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Allied forces believe this huge, unfinished construction project was intended by the Germans to launch pilotless rocket planes. It was captured by Allies in Normandy.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Clouds of smoke billow from an Allied merchantman hit by Axis bombing in an Algerian harbor. Men fight flames as though there is no danger of exploding munitions and gasoline.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Sheared off by a shell, the mammoth clock of the Cherbourg Railroad Station lies on a staircase, testimony to the force of the Allied bombardment
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
20th c Photography
Reconnaissance picture of the Nazi airfield and aircraft works at Villacoublay, near Paris, just four hours after a raid by Flying Fortresses
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
A statue of the composer Beethoven stands intact in his birth city of Bonn, Germany. It looks out over the wreckage of an air raid shelter.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
The multiple crossings of the Rhine on 215-mile front made by Allied armies probably included scenes like these. Here a tank and other vehicles cross the river in Germany on a pontoon bridge.
Unknown Photographer
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
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