A mammoth clock of the Cherbourg railroad station lies on a station staircase, sheared off by a shell in July 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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453.Photograph. 'File No: 231953 July 7, 1944 Allied Bombardment 'Stops the clock' at Cherbourg Dramatically illustrating the crushing force of the tremendous Allied land and ship bombardment centered on Cherbourg before the strategic port fell to our ground forces, the mammoth clock of the Cherbourg railroad station lies on a station staircase, sheared off by a shell.' France. 7 July 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Cherbourg
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49.633
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-1.617
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Clocks & watches--France
War damage--France
Bombardment--France