U.S. gun firing at the invasion front, 1944

A US artillery gun firing at the Allied invasion front in Normandy, summer 1944, in color footage captured by cameraman Jack Lieb.

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After the landing in Normandy in June 1944, Allied forces relied on massive artillery deployment to break German resistance and secure the advance inland. Jack Lieb captured the firing of a U.S. gun at the invasion front with his 16-mm Kodachrome camera — one of the rare color recordings of combat operations during this phase. The scene appears in the film section between the landing at Utah Beach and the advance on Cherbourg, when the Allies systematically brought German positions under artillery fire.

Resolution 5758 × 4320 px (24,9 MP)
File format TIFF, 16-bit
Year taken 1944
Location Normandie (Invasion)
Collection Historiathek / zb Media
Source archive NARA
Photographer Unbekannt
Rights Historiathek / zb Media GmbH