Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Champs-Élysées, May 8, 1945, VE-Day Celebrations, Paris France

Betty Magnuson Olson remembered the mass of people that crowded the Champs-Élysées to celebrate V-E Day in Paris on May 8, 1945. Army Photographer Robert J. Fleck was high atop the Arc de Triomphe that day and snapped this photograph.

Creator: Robert J. Fleck
Publisher: Robert J. Fleck, used with permission
Date: 1945

Champs-Élysées, May 8, 1945, VE-Day Celebrations, Paris France