Tanks moving past abandoned German guns after the crossing of the Seine, 1944

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe, 1944.

Sherman tanks driving through a French town. A knocked-out German artillery piece is visible to the left of the photograph and flags are flying from buildings to the right in celebration of the long-awaited liberation.

From an album of 211 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).