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Parks, Floyd Lavinius, 1896-1959

Allied Forces Enter Berlin: Tanks on the Berlinerstrasse

Picture taken at a Fourth of July Celebration at the Adolph Hitler Barracks in Berlin, Germany, formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm Cadet School. Picture taken on the Berlinerstrasse at the point where General Omar Bradley stopped to watch some of the tanks of the Second Armored Division pass on their way to the heart of Berlin. Here he stands on the left of the group with his officers and Major General Floyd Parks (second from the left), who commands the American troops in Berlin, as a new type of tank carrying a 76 MM gun passes by.

Allied Forces in Berlin: Officers at a Flag Raising Ceremony

Picture a group of officers present at a parade of British troops and flag raising ceremony held at the Franco Prussian Victory column on the Charlottenburger Strasse in Berlin, Germany. L to R: Lieutenant General Sir Ronald Weeks, who took the salute; Major General Floyd L. Parks, commanding the United States forces in Berlin; Major General N. Baranov, commanding the Soviet forces in Berlin; unidentified; Major General Lewis Lyne, commanding British troops in Berlin. All others in the background are unidentified.