The photograph was taken in the summer of 1944 in Mont-Saint-Michel and belongs to the phase of Lieb’s film that documents the Normandy hinterland in the weeks following the initial campaign. Ernest Hemingway was accredited at that time as a war correspondent for Collier’s Magazine in Normandy; Bill Walton reported for Time-Life. Both moved within the sphere of Allied forces between the Normandy front and rear areas. Lieb’s color footage of this encounter is a rare visual source, as the overwhelming majority of press reporting from this period survives only in black and white.