Paris Street Fighting
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Photograph
Paris Street Fighting
September 6, 1944
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.9 x 21.1 cm (6 5/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
Paper: 18.2 x 22.8 cm (7 3/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0356.0009
Inscriptions verso (typed on attached sheet): 15045C / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / PARIS STREET FIGHTING / MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH FORCES OF THE / INTERIOR SWARM ALONG A STREET IN PARIS DURING / A SKIPMISH WITH THE GERMANS BEFORE COMPLETE / ALLIED OCCUPATION OF THE FRENCH CAPITAL. / PRESENCE OF A FRENCH TANK BEARING CROSS OF / LORRAINE INSIGNIA (LEFT BACKGROUND) INDICATES / ACTION OCCURRED AFTER ALLIED SPEARHEADS / ENTERED CITY. SCENE IS FROM MOVIE FILM MADE / BY GASTON MADRU, NEWS OF THE DAY NEWSREEL / PHOTOGRAPHER WHO SERVED WITH THE FRENCH / UNDERGROUND DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / EEM 9/6/44 1230P MAVIE-PL / ABC GD NYWS10 MON TOR TMC PA / MEX BAIRES SA-B AUS NZEA JOH 75
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