ruins of normandy 1944

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Unpublished Color Photos

PowerPoint Show by Andrew

Summer 1944, after D-Day

Saint-Lô, Normandy, summer 1944

American troops clear wreckage in Saint-Lô

A destroyed town in northwest France.

Armored vehicles on the move past civic buildings in Avranches

American troops in courtyard of ruined building.

Post D-Day destruction in northern France.

Jeeps (including a press vehicle) in Marigny (Manche), Normandy.

A ruined German Panzer tank near St. Gilles.

American troops in northwestern France.

American troops in a city in northwest France.

Unloading vehicles and supplies from an LST (landing ship, tank).

An amphibious "duck" comes ashore from its landing craft.

“Beached” and destroyed allied ships on Normandy beach.

Ruined building and a sign written in French and German.

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