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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: SC 191788

Cherbourg, France


Dock facilities destroyed by the Germans before the city was captured by the Allies.
Photographed by Heimberger on 17 July 1944, as U.S. Army Engineers were clearing wreckage to reopen the port.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 133KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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22 February 2004