Metz, France, 1944-1945. A street scene photographed by a soldier of the U.S. Army's 44th Infantry Division, which took part in the fighting to clear the city of Metz and the surrounding Lorraine region from German occupation. Civilians and cyclists move along a cobblestone boulevard lined with the city's characteristic Beaux-Arts architecture, offering a glimpse of daily life returning to a French city recently freed from German control. Project: 218401