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...Paris homecoming began on August 25, when TIME's chief War Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker and LIFE's photographer Bob Capa jeeped through the Porte d'Orléans directly behind the armored car of General Jacques Leclerc. As soon as they had shaken loose from the cheering, flower-throwing crowd they looked up a longtime member of our Paris staff who had spent the last four years in German-occupied Paris. She told them that the French had sealed up our old offices on the Champs Elysées until the authorities could find out what damage...
...Wert , Capa and I live at Lancaster - Mary Welsh is at the Ritz - others are bivouacking at the Grand Hotel. But we all get together at the Hotel Scribe, and almost any morning you can see Wert, Capa, Walton, Welsh and Landry lined up at the rail of the balcony planning the day's operations...
Correspondent Wertenbaker's vivid, thoughtful account of his own observations in France is supplemented by lengthy quotations from A.P. Correspondent Don Whitehead and LIFE Photographer Robert Capa, who went in at the toughest point of the Normandy beach, and TIME Correspondent William Walton, who jumped with a paratroop unit. The result is a well-rounded account, and first-rate journalism...
This event was reported by the first U.S. newsman to enter Paris, TIME'S Chief War Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker. With LIFE'S Photographer Robert Capa, and Private Hubert Stickland of Norfolk, Va. as driver, Werten-baker's jeep drove directly behind General Leclerc's armored car, as French forces entered the city through the Porte d'Orleans at 9:40 a.m., Friday...
...peace with their God. I have never seen in any face such joy as radiated from the faces of the people of Paris this morning. This is no day for restraint, and I could not write with restraint if I wanted to. Your correspondent and your photographer Bob Capa drove into Paris with eyes that would not stay dry, and we were no more ashamed of it than were the people who wept as they embraced...