ETE4883251: Second (Second) World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Rennes (Brittany) France 4 August 1944: After the liberation of the city by the joint forces of the FFI and the 4th DB US, a group of French colonial soldiers (mainly Senegalese) detenred since June 1940 in a camp of prisoners of war is armed in the streets before taking part in the battle against German troops / Bridgeman Images
PIX4668776: Abbey of Fontevraud - Maine-et-Loire - Abbey of Fontevraud - Maine-et-Loire: The nave of the abbey church of Fontevraud. In the foreground, the deposits of Isabelle d'Angouleme and Richard Coeur de Lion, in the background, Alienor d'Aquitaine and Henri II. The Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontevraud was founded by Robert d'Arbrissel in 1101. Located 15 km from Saumur in the Maine-et-Loire, it is classified as historical monuments in 1840 and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 with the entire cultural site of the Loire Valley. Nave of the abbey church of Fontevraud. Foreground are the tombs of Isabella of Angouleme and King Richard I the Lionheart, background are Eleanor of Aquitaine with her husband Henry II / Bridgeman Images
ETE4864711: Plan Marshall or European Recovery Program (ERP) (1948-1952): a North African worker of the SCG closes bags of copper sulphate destined for the vineyards of Burgundy under the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA). Photograph taken in Lyon (Rhone), France, around 1949. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4920137: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Italy April 26, 1944: American General Jacob Devers (Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Allied Troops in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations) inspects a detachment of a Punjab regiment during an inspection tour on the front / Bridgeman Images