Collection
Caption card only
Period
Photographer: Petrony
SC 19038506/17/1944 · St. Mere Eglise, France · Petrony · caption card only
SC 19061406/19/1944 · St. Sauveur, France · Petrony · caption card only
SC 19061506/19/1944 · St. Sauveur, France · Petrony · caption card only
SC 19086006/21/1944 · Montebourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyAmericans move into Montebourg after intensive shelling had virtually ruined every structure in the city. France, 21 Jun 44.
SC 19086806/21/1944 · Montebourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyAmerican troops, among them a Signal Corps photographer, move into Montebourg, France, and view the wreckage brought about by Allied gunfire which drove the Nazis from this stronghold. 6/21/44.
SC 19260006/21/1944 · Near Montebourg Pass, France · Petrony · caption card onlyHeavy weapons push forward through smoking and ruined villages in France, resulting from gun fire. France, June 21, 1944
SC 33202806/21/1944 · Montebourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyA COMMAND RECONNAISSANCE CAR MOVES INTO MONTEBOURG, FRANCE, LEADING AMERICAN TROOPS INTO THE CITY. 21 JUNE 1944
SC 19069906/22/1944 · Valognes, France · Petrony · caption card only
SC 19070006/22/1944 · Valognes, France · Petrony · caption card onlyCab. 6-France
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THERE'S BEEN A CHANGE.
Passing buildings devastated by Allied shellfire which drove the Nazis from the village, two French civilians
scurry through a street in Valognes, France.
June 22, 1944
Sig
SC 20655306/26/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyLt. Gen. Dietrick von Schlieben (helmet, right), commander of Hitler's "last man" army which fell at Cherbourg, and Adm. Hennecke (in naval hat), chief of German naval operations at Cherbourg, are escorted to American Ar
SC 19078606/27/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyLt. Gen. Dietrick Von Schlieben, Commander of the German Army at Cherbourg, and Admiral Hennecke, Chief of Naval Operations on the Normandy Peninsula, the two men who made the "last stand" of the German Army at Cherbourg
SC 19078806/27/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyFACING HIS CAPTOR. ...... Lt. Gen. Dietrick Von Schlieben, who commanded the German Army's "last stand" at Cherbourg. faces his captor, Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, right, after his surrender. Gen. Schlieben is on Gen. C
SC 19078906/27/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyMUD ON THE CHIEF. Splattered with mail, Lt. Gen. Dietrick von Schlieben, Chief of the German Army which fell to the Yanks at Cherbourg, awaits the American Commander, Major General J. Lawton Collins
SC 33203006/27/1944 · Fort du Roule, Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyTHE SMOKING TOWN OF CHERBOURG LIES IN RUINS BELOW THIS HILLTOP FORTIFICATION. THE VITAL HARBOUR BELOW WAS THE GOAL OF LIBERATING AMERICAN ARMY. AT THIS POINT THE "LAST STAND" OF GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE BEING ROUTED OUT OF TH
SC 33203906/27/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyHill top in the center of the city of Cherbourg, was covered with German pillboxes when captured by the 4th Infantry
Division. Cherbourg France. 27 June 1944
SC 190083306/28/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyCAFTURED NAZI, OFFICER. Eyes lowered, General Sattler, Deputy to General Von Schleiben, both of whom were captured by American troops in the fall of Cherbourg, Frence, poses for the Signal Corps photographer. 28 June 194
SC 190083406/29/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlySUPERMEN NO LONGER". Nazi General Sattler, Deputy to Gen. Von Schleiben, end his aide, leave a conference after their surrender to American Forces which liberated Cherbourg, France, in a crestfallen mood. 29 June 1944.
SC 19078406/30/1944 · Cherbourg, France · Petrony · caption card onlyON THEIR WAY TO NEW POSITIONS. Members of an
antiaircraft artillery unit pass thru Cherbourg, France, on their way to take up new strategic positions.