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(exciting music)

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- [Narrator] In August
of 1944, Paris, France

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was under German control as Allied forces

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along with the US Third Army
we're moving quickly eastward

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across the country.

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French citizens in Paris,
(bombs booming)

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hearing of the advancing forces

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and seeing retreating
Germans through the city

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began to revolt against German control.

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On August 24th,
(engine revving)

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Allied forces led by US M4 Sherman tanks

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rolled into the city and
bolstered by partisan resistance

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broke through to the
city center by nightfall.

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Less than 24 hours later with
the support of the US Fourth

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Infantry Division, the
German occupation of Paris

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would be forced into surrender.

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Celebrations in the city would last days,

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and include a US military
parade on August 29th

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which marched through the city center

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to the Arc de Triomphe.