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On this day, August 29, 1944, troops of the 28th Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees
1944: Paris
In 1944, 15,000 American troops of the 28th Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees (shahms ay-lee-ZAY’) in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
AP
In 1944, 15,000 American troops of the 28th Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees (shahms ay-lee-ZAY’) in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
AP
Fact of the Day: During the 1st World War soldiers from the 1st Battalion of Lancashire Royal Dragoon Fusilier Hussars carried a 1/4 scale model of Blackpool Tower in a Landrover with them to help combat homesickness.
Photographed from a Canberra
Photographed from a Canberra
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