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20 July 2023 Garand Picture of the Day
Parisians greet US troops in the liberated French
capital on August 29, 1944
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A lot of smiles in that photo though many hard days ahead.
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though many hard days ahead.
It's been a long road from Omaha or Utah beach too, if those guys were actually involved.
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What a day it must have been!
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From what I can tell, the Parisians never forgave the United States for liberating them. 
Folks in Normandy are different.
Bob
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Originally Posted by
Bob Womack
From what I can tell, the Parisians never forgave the
United States for liberating them.
Folks in Normandy are different.
Bob
Parisians are like any population of capital cities. They do not represent the country.
But I'm 100% sure they were all happy that day.
They started criticising the day after
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