French soldiers smiling and being happy to be on firm ground again after being evacuated from Dunkirk.
taken from fb/France and flanders Campaign 1940

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April-may 1945.
Ambulance driver Nicole de Barbot, from the 1st Bataillon de Choc (a paratrooper commando unit), keeps company with two wounded commandos. During the war she received multiple awards such as the cross of war, the Red Cross medal, the Legion of Honour...

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US-made M4A2 Sherman medium tanks of the 2nd French Armored Division go ashore at the Utah Beach landing site from a Landing Ship Tank (LST); Normandy, France, June 1944.