Bastille Day Celebration in Siena, Italy.

Bastille Day Celebration in Siena, Italy. Civilians of Siena, Italy, watch from balconies as Allied troops parade in ceremonies commomorating Bastille Day, French national holiday, on July 14, 1944. Siena, famous art centre and key communications town 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Florence, was liberated by French troops under the command of General Alphonse Pierre Juin, Commander in Chief of French Forces in Italy, on July 3, 1944, in coordinated offensives, U.S. and British forces driving northward on both sides of Italy.