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Paris Liberated Frontline Diary Recounts Street Fights and Airstrip Feats
A first person account describes barricade fighting outside the Church of St. Francis Xavier and near the Military School of France. Tanks, machine guns, and snipers figure as Paris is freed, with civilians and Allied troops converging on the Arc de Triomphe and Place de la Concorde. The piece also highlights Ninth Air Force engineers rapidly building emergency landing strips and airfields in France, including courageous D-Day–night efforts by Fort Worth and Indiana soldiers who cleared mines and prepared runways under fire.
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Schimeisser
Paris
R. E. Weller
New York
Dillon Read & Company
FFI
Leclerc
Milice Francaise
Arc de Triomphe
Arch
Kenny
Milice
Hiram Walker
Weller
Europe
Marechal Foch
Place de la Concorde
The
Majestic
George V
Plaza
Gestapo
Naval Ministry
Place de la Republique
Bastille
Champs Elysees
Gen
Charles de Gaulle
Place de l
London
Hitler
Cathedral of Notre Dame
V Corps
Place Vendome
Rue de Rivoli
Obelisk
de Gaulle
Bernard L. Montgomery
Omar N. Bradley
U. S
Eisenhower
Germany
Ninth Air Force
E Aviation
Africa
Eighth Army
France
Els
Charles Lane
Fort Worth
Tex
Rex McDaniel
Earl Park
Ind
Civil Affairs