Fall Of Cherbourg (1944)

Item title reads Fall of Cherbourg. France. Various shots of American troops putting local labour to work repairing a marshalling yard which received heavy bombing by the allied air forces during the occupation, various shots of the wreckage. Various shots of U. S. troops in the bombed ruins of the town of Valognes. L, S buildings which are half standing and unsafe, they are finished off with the aid of dynamite. Bulldozers plough through the wreckage. Various shots at a captured German equipment dump, the U. S. troops sort through damaged tanks, cars and guns, etc. A doodlebug is tipped onto the scrap heap. Aerial shots of heavily bombed area near the Normandy coast, there are bomb craters everywhere. Various shots of troops looking at damaged gun emplacements of the Atlantic Wall. Various shots of a massive concrete structure for housing giant rocket shells, it was captured prior to completion. M, S s of camouflaged shed which was a V. 1 store. Various shots of naval barrage being laid by British and