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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: SC 274188

Cherbourg, France


Two British minesweepers detonate German mines in the Grande Rade, just before the entry of supply ships, 2 July 1944. Cherbourg's Fort l'Ouest is in the background.
Photographed by Bacon.

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

Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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24 February 2004