Cherbourg liberation parade, June the 27th 1944.

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Outside the Cherbourg town hall troops of VII Corps parade in front of their corps commander Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins.

The parade took place in the Place de la République, and included a M-20 armoured car, which was essentially a M-8 with no turret.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M8_Greyhound

http://www.generals.dk/general/Collins/Joseph_Lawton/USA.html

Other views of the parade can be seen here

http://www.stolly.org.uk/ETO/cherbourgliberationceremony.html

http://www.stolly.org.uk/ETO/cherbourgliberationceremony2.html

http://www.stolly.org.uk/ETO/cherbourgliberationceremony3.html

http://www.stolly.org.uk/ETO/cherbourgliberationceremony4.html