Paris Liberated
Today 23 August, the French Forces of the Interior have announced that Paris was liberated yesterday. Some tanks of General Leclerc's Second Armoured Division entered the Port d'Orl ans yesterday and advanced to the Ile de la Cit , where they met up with the leaders of the FFI resistance forces. This morning the main force of the division entered the city, and by this evening all organised resistance ceased. The local populace of this beautiful city are overjoyed at their liberation after so many years under the Nazi jackboot. Parisians are flooding the streets in happy celebration, in spite of the occasional sniper shots fired from rooftops by Nazi stragglers and their French fascist sympathisers. We look forward to the return of General de Gaulle to Paris, promised very soon. On 18 June 1940 the General called upon the French to continue the struggle by the side of Great Britain, and his stance has now been justified by recent events, culminating in the liberation of Paris. The Oxford Diecast Headlines Paris Liberated made of Diecast Metal/Mazak is Number SC003 in the range.
