First American Red Cross club in France opens in Cherbourg. M.

First American Red Cross club in France opens in Cherbourg. M. Paul Reynaud, Mayor or Cherbourg, addresses Allied soldiers attending the opening of the first American Red Cross club in France at Cherbourg July 20, 1944. Sitting on the spekers'platform, left to right are: Lieutenant Colonel F.W. Howley, Civil Affairs chief in the Cherbourg area; Louisa Farrand, director of the club; Harvey D. Gibson, American Red Cross Commissioner in Great Britain and Western Europe (partially hidden by speaker), and Private Harold Pike of Cleveland, Ohio, who accepted the club on behalf of American soldiers.