In the course of the Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944, numerous members of the Wehrmacht were taken prisoner. Jack Lieb captured such scenes of capitulation with his private 16-mm Kodachrome camera—one of the few color records of these events. The footage appears in the film during the phase of the advance from Utah Beach into the Normandy hinterland, in which Allied units overran German positions and took prisoners. Such scenes served in Lieb’s later lecture film as documentation of the rapid military collapse of German defense in Normandy.