Paris on Sunday celebrated the 80th anniversary of its liberation from German troops in World War II with tributes, military marches and the hoisting of a flag at the Eiffel Tower. On August 25, 1944, ...

PARIS – Paris turned back the clock Wednesday for a grandiose fête to remember the tears, the joy and the euphoria that heralded the liberation of the French capital 60 years ago as it threw off the ...

Using Google Earth, we retrace the Liberation of Paris in August 1944. Allied forces and the French Resistance rose against ...

PARIS (AP) — Paris is celebrating the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago. Firefighters unfurled a huge ...

PARIS, Aug. 25 -- With solemn commemorations, a ceremonial flag-raising at the Eiffel Tower and columns of 1940s-era tanks and army jeeps, Parisians on Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of the ...

REPORTER AT LARGE. Reprospective piece about the Liberation of Paris. On Aug. 25, 1944, the Twelfth Regiment, of the Fourth Division, entered the city. Speaks of the enthusiastic welcome given our men ...

As the Germans descended on Paris in June 1940, Jean Texcier, who worked for France’s Ministry of Trade, printed some advice for Parisians on how to behave toward the occupiers. He put the handbills ...

PARIS — Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of ...