Residents of Cherbourg gather at the waterfront to watch as members of a British Royal Navy Salvage Unit prepare to begin salvage work on the harbor 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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454.Photograph. Man in diving suit. 'File No: 231950 July 7, 1944 Cherbourg residents watch salvage work begin in harbor Residents of Cherbourg gather at the waterfront to watch as members of a British Royal Navy Salvage Unit prepares to begin salvage work on the harbor of the strategic port, littered with wreckage and debris as a result of Allied bombardments and Nazi demolitions. '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
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Salvage
Diving suits
Sailors--British--France
People--France