Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte after its capture.

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From a 1944 news story

St. Sauveur, France – Lying in a valley, this mass of destruction is all that remains of St. Sauveur, captured by the Allies on the road to Cherbourg. Driving a wedge across the Normandy Peninsula with amazing rapidity, the Yank troops have advanced to the outskirts of Cherbourg, and have an estimated 25,000 or 30,000 Germans trapped within the port city.

A Bailey Bridge carries the D2 road over the river, the original bridge no doubt destroyed as the Germans fell back. Two trucks can be seen approaching the bridge on the way to Valognes.

To the right can be seen huge bomb craters along with "Rommel's asparagus", wooden posts set into the ground intended to destroy landing assault gliders.

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