✦ History

Part of Operation Overlord

Liberation of Paris

August 19–25, 1944 · Paris

Result Free French and allied victory

French Resistance fighters rose in Paris, and Free French and American troops entered the city. The German commander surrendered, and Paris was free after four years of occupation.

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Axis

Allies

Vichy France
Germany
United Kingdom
France
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower participant Charles de Gaulle participant Bernard Montgomery military commander Jacques Chaban-Delmas participant Georges Bidault participant Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque military commander

Strength and losses

Deaths
3,200
Captured
12,800

Units

325th Security Division
French Forces of the Interior 2nd Armored Division (France) 4th Infantry Division (United States)

Before and after

Followed from
Falaise pocket August 12–21, 1944

Related events 1 degree away • 2 degrees away

 
Falaise pocket
 
Liberation of Paris

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