Detonation of mines in Cherbourg, France during World War II. Mines explode at sea in the Cherbourg harbor, France. A man signals blinker. Mines detonated and explosions occur at sea. Minesweepers underway at sea with a fort in the background. A paravane underway detonates mines. United States Coast Guards 83 inch boat passes. Boat with guns mounted on it.
Naval hospital in Cherbourg, France during World War II. Men carry a bed into the hospital in Cherbourg, France. A patient made to lie down on the bed.
Allied invasion of Cherbourg, France during World War II. American soldiers walk past a hedgerow in a field in Cherbourg, France. Soldiers carry a rocket launcher as he goes down a steep embankment in the woods. Another soldier follows him down the embankment. American soldier seated on the ground as he eats from his canteen cup. Another soldier seated by hedgerow drinks from a cup. Soldier with a lighted cigarette in his hand. A soldier sleeps in a ditch. A soldier hands over a machine gun to another soldier.
Allied invasion of Cherbourg, France during World War II. American soldiers walk past a hedgerow in a field in Cherbourg, France. A soldier at the hedgerow looks on. A soldier speaks over a field phone. A soldier sights and then fires a 30 caliber water cooled machine gun. Another soldier fires the gun through an opening in the hedge. A soldier eats rations from a tin.
Allied invasion of Cherbourg, France during World War II. Damaged buildings as a result of Allied bombings in Cherbourg, France. Rubble spread on the streets. American soldier looks into a window of a bombed building from snipers. Soldier patrol the streets with damaged buildings in the background. Rubble spread on the streets.
10 days after D-Day. Allied Forces progressing with invasion of Europe through Normandy during World War II. Infantry troops march and military vehicles move inwards to Carentan, about 3 miles in land from Normandy and Omaha Beach. A native woman talks to soldiers in the town of Carentan. A wounded soldier laying on a U.S. Army jeep in the town square in front of the Carentan Church. Soldiers use girders and continue construction of a bridge at Carentan. (Note: This appears to be "Tucker Bridge" at Carentan. The bridge was so-named after Major John Tucker, commanding the 300th Combat Engineers, was hit by enemy fire and killed during the initial construction of the bridge. The bridge provided important access to Cherbourg, St. Lo, and Caen. It was replaced in 1996 by a stone and concrete structure but it remains the Major John Tucker Bridge.) Two soldiers stand on the bridge and talk to each other.
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