Cherbourg’s waterfront normally a postcard in real life, now shows the signs of battle, with windows broken and damage to the buildings in October 1944.  Photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN as the corvette approaches the French harbour with a convoy for the advancing armies.

Roger Litwiller Collection, A. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy of Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK127)