Following the landing in Normandy in June 1944, fallen American soldiers were initially buried in provisional field cemeteries near the coast. The still-simple white wooden crosses stand in rows on the unplanted ground; in the background, the English Channel with supply ships can be seen. Jack Lieb documented this site in color footage—a documentary record of the immediate losses of the invasion, which in contemporary reporting was otherwise preserved almost exclusively in black and white. Later, the fallen were reinterred at permanent military cemeteries such as the Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer.