442 items in this album on 23 pages.
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A heavy German coast artillery shell fell between Texas (background) and Arkansas (foreground) off Cherbourg, France, 25 Jun 1944 | Cruiser HMS Belfast bombarding German positions off Normandy, France, 24-25 Jun 1944 |
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A US Army major looked over Cherbourg from one of the concrete pillboxes above the city, 26 Jun 1944 | Major General Manton Eddy and another American officer speaking to a captured German officer, Cherbourg, France, 26-27 Jun 1944 |
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US Army Captain Earl Topley looking at a German soldier who had killed three of his men before his own death, Cherbourg, France, 27 Jun 1944 | An US Army colonel and a French civilian in Cherbourg during the playing of the American national anthem, 28 Jun 1944 |
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Churchill tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, UK 31st Tank Brigade, supporting infantry of UK 8th Royal Scots during Operation Epsom, near Caen, France, 28 Jun 1944 | LSTs unloading at low tide in the Easy sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, 28 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2; note Gooseberry breakwater offshore |
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LSTs unloading at low tide in the Easy sector of Omaha Beach, Normandy, 28 Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2; note wrecked LCI(L) in the center | US Army African-American soldiers setting up a 155mm howitzer in France, 28 Jun 1944 |
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US Army troops attempted to blow up a German pillbox near Cherbourg, 28 Jun 1944 | US Army troops marched German prisoners of war through Cherbourg, 28 Jun 1944 |
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A Gooseberry line of block ships off the Normandy beaches, Ouistreham, France, Jun 1944; note sunken British ship Durban, sunken Dutch ship Sumatra, and two active DUKW craft | Major General J. Lawton Collins described to Lieutenant General Omar Bradley how Cherbourg was taken, circa late Jun or early Jul 1944 |
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Medics helping injured soldier, France, 1944 | Unfinished German submarine pen at Cherbourg, France, 30 Jun 1944 |
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A French field full of German helmets after their original owners, captured by the Americans, marched them to a prisoner of war camp, Normandy, France, 1944 | An American officer and a French partisan with a Sten sub-machinegun crouched behind a car during a street fight in a French city, Jun 1944 |
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Camouflaged German paratrooper with Panzerfaust, France, Jun-Jul 1944 | Captured American M8 armored cars, northern France, summer 1944, photo 1 of 2 |
442 items in this album on 23 pages.