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SEPTEMBER 23 ’44 Photographs General Charles De Gaulle in Besançon, France.
OCTOBER 1 ’44 Arrives in Paris to record the recent liberation.
OCTOBER 16 ’44 Accredited to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), takes a quick trip to London for a new uniform.
NOVEMBER 19 ’44 Back in France, travels to Alsace-Lorraine. Comes within miles of the Rhine River, border with Germany.
DECEMBER 7 ’44 Back in Rome, she gives a radio broadcast to South African audience.
DECEMBER 16 ’44 Reaches the Springbok, South Africa’s troops entrenched in Northern Italy. Photographs soldiers in Castiglione dei Pepoli, Termini, and Grezzana.
DECEMBER ’44 Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, Belgium. Last major German counter-offensive against the Allies.
APRIL 15 ’45 President Roosevelt dies. Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds as U.S. President.
APRIL 28 ’45 Benito Mussolini and other fascists executed by Italian partisans. Italy surrenders.
APRIL 30 ’45 Hitler commits suicide.
MAY 2 ’45 Soviets occupy Berlin.
MAY 7 ’45 Germany unconditionally surrenders.
MAY 8 ’45 V-E Day. Victory in Europe.
AUGUST 6 & 9 ’45 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
SEPTEMBER 2 ’45 V-J Day. Japan surrenders. |