This color footage was shot in the summer of 1944 as Jack Lieb accompanied Allied troops and war correspondents through the Normandy hinterland. Mont-Saint-Michel, the medieval abbey on a tidal island at the border between Normandy and Brittany, became a destination for Allied reporters following the liberation of the region. Robert Capa, then one of the most renowned war photographers, was like Lieb part of the accredited correspondent corps and accompanied Allied operations in northern France. The footage belongs to the section of the film that documents the Normandy hinterland after the fighting around Cherbourg and before the advance on Paris.