This photograph was taken in London in the context of Jack Lieb’s filming work in preparation for the invasion, presumably in spring 1944. It documents the consequences of the German air war against the British capital, whose heaviest phase (the Blitz of 1940/41) had already passed, but which flared up again with the V1 attacks beginning in June 1944. Cleanup and recovery operations amid rubble were part of everyday life in war-weary London. Lieb’s color camera captures this civilian wartime routine, which otherwise survives almost exclusively in black and white.