After the landing in Normandy and the capture of Cherbourg, Jack Lieb traversed the Norman hinterland. Mont-Saint-Michel, the medieval abbey situated on a rocky island at the border between Normandy and Brittany, had been left largely undestroyed by the German occupying forces. The photograph documents the Allied advance in the summer of 1944 and is part of Lieb’s sequences from the phase between the consolidation of the beachhead and the liberation of Paris in August 1944.