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Het originele Britse bijschrift luidt: Food for liberated Holland. Huge stacks of foodstuffs at the depot waiting to be collected by the Dutch authorities. Hulpgoederen voor Nederland, opgeslagen in het (3) Civil Affairs depot in Helmond, 11 maart 1945.

Church salvage work begins in Normandy. The church tower in St. Marie du Mont is reparable despite shelling of the structure, used by the nazis as an observation post before American forces drove them from the area. French civilians and American soldiers working under supervision of the Allied Civil Affairs committee have already repaired the walls of the damaged edifice.

First American Red Cross club in France opens in Cherbourg. Louisa Farrand, director of the American Red Cross club in Cherbourg, accepts a French flag from Major Paul Reynaud of Cherbourg at the opening of the first American Red Cross club for enlisted men in France July 20, 1944. Lieutenant Colonel F.W. Howley, Civil Affairs chief in the Cherbourg area and Harvey D. Gibson, American Red Cross Organisation ...

Freed Russian woman feeds refugee child in France. An olderly Russian woman, captured by the Germans and impressed into the Nazi TODT Organization, feeds a small refugee child in Fontenay-sur-Mer after their release by the Allied advance in Normandy. Both the child and woman show marks of their life under the Nazis. Special Civil Affairs units set up by the Allies are distributing food and clothing ...