After the landing in Normandy (June 6, 1944), the Allies established a beachhead and pushed back German forces. Artillery played a central role in supporting the infantry advance through the Norman bocage countryside. The presence of French civilians alongside the medical soldier demonstrates how closely combat operations and the civilian population overlapped spatially in the hinterland of the invasion front. Jack Lieb captured such scenes in color—a quality that is extraordinarily rare for footage of this phase of the war.