Valognes in ruins 24th of June 1944

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A jeep of the 298th Combat Engineer Battalion attached to 1st US Army moves through Valognes towards Cherbourg.

In the background is Place Vicq d' Azir and the rubble of St Malo church whose steeple was dynamited by US troops after its capture due to its dangerous condition.