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remember Paris that black day in 1940 when grim and silent the shores Elysee stretched out beneath the Nazi heel remember to the look on the faces of men and women betrayed by their leaders remember the Crutcher II that tried to sell its own nation into slavery remember the man whose faith found strength in England General Charles de Gaulle after conferring with Winston Churchill declared the flame of French resistance must never be extinguished as the world knows the strategy of victory long-planned in supreme headquarters of the Allied expeditionary forces went into effect on d-day rampaging allied armor is on the road to Paris today a thousand heavy bombers smashed the hinge of the German line in Normandy rail and road bridges marshalling yards and locomotive battle wise Montgomery with as a pollutant general dempsey carries out the supreme plan of General Eisenhower his troops deployed swiftly east and south to begin offensive action June 26 well the Americans under general flatly prepared to capture salvo the British thrust towards Balibo CAI says Montgomery to his troops nothing has stopped us nothing will Carr is the next objective under cover of darkness the dawn attack begins ranged against the British our sex of braavos crack Panzer divisions tempered at El Alamein met and matched at the Mareth line hard-hitting reserved ready for battle car is a vital hinge town of the alight master plan that General Eisenhower one foot of ground gained the calm is to us worth 10 miles gained anywhere else street by street and stone by stone the objective is gain a town pulverized by war a grim monument of blood and sweat and tears but one vital step further round the road again the Allied air arms then heavies to attack the German counter-attack from car to coma the British push against the heaviest concentration of armour the Germans have ever assembled in this war July 25th behind a smoking screen of destruction 593 German tanks have been knocked out and the battle goes on meanwhile in the Cherbourg Peninsula general Bradley using the greatest US striking ports of World War two prepares his lightning armored punch July 29 a history-making aerial assault on the Salo Perrier Road plays a bomb carpet 2,000 yards wide by 9,000 feet swiftly Bradley's Armour thrust chuckle toss to turn the German left flank and General Patton's tanks rocketing out plunge south across the face of Brittany fan west towards breast and south again thoughts and affair the reeling Germans can rally only fluid opposition the American frontal offensive wheeled east then north toward Lamaze and British armor RAF rocket firing typhoons go into action each has eight rockets with the punch of a six-inch shell August 7th they slash in to make history 100 tanks 90 Motor Vehicles locomotives at oil dump the enemy is disintegrating now the crap is closing moving star from balance the Canadian first army is closing a 25 mile gap with the French and American columns sweeping north from Lamar and so from cons of the sand a maelstrom of a light armor is ripping the German armies to pieces 30,000 Nazi prisoners take grim stock of war 15 German divisions destroyed 15 badly mauled of a former total strength of 60 from Kong to the send the last Germans are liquidated street by a ruined Street the way is cleared allied armies are on the high road to Paris August 1944 Paris City of Light is enduring the last dark hours of German domination as the ring of Allied armor draws closer to the outskirt uneasy Nazis are beginning to pull out August 15 Paris police go on strike as the committee of liberation orders of general uprising in the headquarters of the Paris underground members of the FFI commanded by general turnig organized for the struggle radio listening post check rumor and news August 21st the French forces of the Interior put on armbands carefully hoarded weapons and ammunition come out of secret hiding down the stairs to battle go men and women pledged to guard their weapons with their lives the hour of liberation is striking once again the storage stones of Paris Street will serve as men women and children kindled to a final blaze the flame of French resistance these are the faces of the men and women who four years ago grim and silent watched their beloved Elysee stretch out beneath the Nazi heel they are grim and silent today but with a different purpose the great battle has come from end to end the city is rocked by bitter struck the FF is fighting as the coal foretold with passion but will discipline no ammunition is wait August 20 seconds French newspapers appear openly August 23rd German tanks are cruising the streets firing at the barricade ammunition for the French forces is running low the moment is critical August 24 the first patrols of general LeClair and the 2nd Armored Division sweep through the outskirts of the city relief for the hard-pressed fighters is on the way on and into the hotel to be la suite allied tank to rolling down the boulevard days of a lead American field pieces are blasting the Ministry of marine in the past de la Concorde Paris is free while all the world catches its breath the news joyful Allied armies speeding through welcoming crowd August 26th of 18 minutes past three general Shan the goal lays flowers on the grave of the Unknown Soldier France has come home to Paris amid the first thing enthusiasm of liberation the procession moved down the shores Elysee acclaimed at the head marches General Charles de Gaulle the man whose courage in the dark days of 1940 continues the battle for France from English soil once again France marches among the great nations of the earth United on the road to freedom they've opened fire German and collaborationist snipers are shooting into the crowd as the goal arrives at notre-dame Cathedral the last sniper is being liquidated in this hour Paris crowned with honor and glory does not forget the war is still going on and will continue for everyone everywhere until the final day of total victory