A Taste of Liberation

Chaplain McDonald arrived in Paris on September 2, only a week after the Germans had been driven out. Unlike the ruins found in Normandy, Paris was completely intact and the Parisians were still reveling in the joy of liberation.

Of course we went into Paris and the Parisians were still exulting in the German defection. Some women had a style of sensual and flashy hauteur, which was unlike memories of our hardworking people at home, and most unlike the war-weary British … Whenever one of us was shooting a picture the French would crowd onto the scene

–Fred McDonald