Mont-Saint-Michel belongs to the Normandy hinterland phase of Jack Lieb’s film, which documents the Allied advance following the fighting around Utah Beach and Cherbourg. Charles Collingwood and Helen Kirkpatrick were among the most prominent American foreign correspondents of the Second World War; both reported for U.S. media from liberated France. Mont-Saint-Michel was liberated in the summer of 1944 without major combat and served correspondents like Lieb as a distinctive waypoint on the route toward Paris.