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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USA C-2172 (Color)

Cherbourg Campaign, June 1944

Two Nuns and a French family examine the ruins of the bombed Church of St. Malo, in Valognes, circa summer 1944.
The town of Valognes was badly battered during the drive on Cherbourg in June 1944.

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

Online Image: 136KB; 590 x 765 pixels

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2 February 2004