During the course of the invasion and the subsequent fighting in Normandy (June–August 1944), the airspace over the beachhead was hotly contested. The Allied air forces secured the invasion coast and supported the ground advance, while the Luftwaffe attempted to disrupt the forces. Jack Lieb captured such combat moments with his 16mm Kodachrome camera — footage of events that are otherwise transmitted almost exclusively in black and white. The still image belongs to the Normandy phase of the film, which extends from the landing at Utah Beach to the advance into the interior.