After the fighting for the Normandy coast and Cherbourg, US units and war correspondents traversed the Norman hinterland in the summer of 1944. Mont-Saint-Michel, the medieval abbey on a tidal island at the border between Normandy and Brittany, had already been evacuated by German forces at this time and was among the first significant cultural monuments reached by Allied soldiers. Jack Lieb captured the scene in color with his private 16-mm Kodachrome camera – a rare record of the location in this form from those weeks.