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MAY ’43 Africa cleared of Axis forces.
JULY-AUGUST ’43 British, Americans and Canadians conquer Sicily.
FEBRUARY 13 ’44 Soviet forces re-take Budapest, Hungary. Zelma embedded with Soviet army, covers their advance through Eastern Europe.
JUNE 6 ’44 D-Day landing of Allied troops on Normandy coast in Operation Overlord.
JULY 15 ’44 Constance Stuart Larrabee departs Pretoria, South Africa for Cairo, Egypt as a war correspondent for Libertas magazine.
AUGUST 12 ’44 Transported to Rome. D-Day in Southern France.
AUGUST 21 ’44 Arrives in French Riviera. Embedded with U.S. Seventh Army, commanded by General Alexander Patch. Photographs some of the Free French of the Interior (FFI), underground resistance fighters.
AUGUST 23–25 ’44 Liberation of Paris by U.S. and Free French troops, led by General de Gaulle, ending four years of German occupation.
AUGUST 27 ’44 In St. Tropez, witnesses French women, accused of collaborating with the German Nazi troops during the occupation, being shaved and paraded through the streets in shame.
JANUARY 19 ’45 Becomes ill, returns to Florence.
FEBRUARY 4 ’45 Yalta Conference. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin agree on future divided occupation of Germany.
FEBRUARY 5 ’45 Embedded with the British Eighth Army in the Apennine region.
FEBRUARY 17 ’45 Decides to return to South Africa. Is deloused in Rome.
FEBRUARY 27 ’45 In Cairo on her return journey to South Africa. |