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Paris in September 1944 amid ruins and flag flown by locals
The writer recalls a post D-Day Paris on September 21 six weeks after liberation. He notes crowds on bicycles, buildings scarred by machine-gun fire, and crowds around a wrecked German tank. He describes casualties from mines, an American hospital ward treating peasants, and Rommel’s mined-area misdirection. He praises Allied air power and American resolve amid heavy losses.
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