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...thick of things with General Patton's men . . . and Chief Military Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker, Photographer Bob Capa and Correspondent Bill Walton are at the new headquarters TIME has set up at the Hotel Scribe in Paris ("Wert" and Capa jeeped into the city right behind General Leclerc's armored car-believe they were the first Americans to were reach Paris...
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...
...General Ike Eisenhower's own good time. Perhaps the hour was already set. The actors in the drama of triumph were in the wings with him. Already in France General Charles de Gaulle awaited his entrance cue. The chariots were assembled-the tanks and trucks of General Jacques Leclerc's armored division which had rolled up to the rim of the city with the Americans. Other victory parade leaders were ready - among them General Joseph Pierre Koenig, the commander of France's underground army, which was already rising against the last Germans in the murk that hovered...
Next, De Gaulle. Reports that a French division under General Jacques Leclerc, hero of the Fighting French African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic. But a few of the tougher-minded among them banked on a political fact: General Charles de Gaulle, who at last report was in Cherbourg, was no longer the head of an overseas resistance movement, but the leader of a great nation. Part of his job was to heal as well as to purge...
General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commissioner in Syria, conferred with General Giraud last week. But the one really bright spot in this picture was the enthusiastic welcome accorded by General Giraud's Tunisian troops to General Jacques Leclerc's Fighting French forces...