Chronology of World War II

Thursday, August 31

Main Street of Les Andelys in Normandy


Main Street of Les Andelys in Normandy
A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys in Normandy as British forces arrive, August 31, 1944. The woman in the foreground is Madame Scarlett, wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel des Fleurs