 Going through the town of Rennes in their drive on Paris, the United States troops search for mines concealed beneath the highway by retreating Nazis of the shattered Seventh Army. Scale of the German disaster in France can hardly be measured. Allied power has staged a blitzkrieg far greater than anything the Germans did in 1940. When the Americans liberated Rennes, they took over a most important rail and road junction, connecting Paris with the ports of Brest and St. Marlowe. This city, with a population of 72,000, communicates to with the U-boat bases at Laurien and Saint-Nazaire. The acclamation with which the townspeople received the victorious Americans was in sharp contrast with their treatment of a group of Vichy collaborationists. They included the ex-chief of militia who'd worked hand in glove with the SS. On the first day of liberation and feeling ran high, the fifth columnists had to be protected from the fury of the crowd, under so in the skies. Heavy bombers carrying out daylight raids on important railway marshaling yards behind the retreating German columns. The Germans were closing the northern jaw of the track, which was to squeeze von Kluge's army to pulp in the fallet's gap, which resulted in the scattering of the German Seventh Army. These pictures give some idea of the mass of war materials destroyed by the Allied bombardment or left behind by the fleeing enemy. The superior weighted maneuverability of the Allied armor finally decided the issue. Members of a Russian military mission to the British and Canadian sector watched the course of the battle. Here they're examining rocket bombs fitted to a British fighter aircraft of the type which has caused such havoc to German communications. Pictures were taken during the forcing of a river proat at the point where the Red Army entered Romania. This swift Russian advance has struck the German army a crippling blow, ranking with Stalin's grade in the number of men involved. Romania Number two, the Luftwaffe has proved ineffective. The Russians control the skies. Across the river proat, poured the victorious Red Army in a drive which has since resulted in the surrender of Romania. Some countries, Romania had been a Nazi satellite since she signed the Axis Pact in 1940. First towns taken by the Russians, towns people were apathetic. Four years of semi-starvation under the Axis heel has had its effect. Path of the Red Army come the peasants returning to the land on which they were born. When the Russians swept into Romania, 30 divisions of Germany's Southern Ukraine Army were threatened with extinction. The capitulation of Romania, first of the Balkan satellites to see the writing on the wall, foreshadows the fall of the German Reich.