U.S. troops in Paris, August 19, 1944
Allied vehicles roll across the Place de la Concorde in Paris in August 1944 — Jack Lieb’s rare color footage of the liberation of the French capital.
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On 19 August 1944, uprising and liberation fighting began in Paris even before Allied forces had fully reached the city. The obelisk on the Place de la Concorde forms the vanishing point of this photograph, which shows Allied vehicles in the midst of an aroused civilian population. The formal liberation of Paris followed on 25 August 1944, when the 2nd French Armored Division and the 4th U.S. Infantry Division entered the city. Jack Lieb’s Kodachrome photographs are among the few color documents of these events.
