Coutances Ruins
ID: CAL-01-0096
Format: SD
Description

Town shows extensive damage. Priests walk in ruins. General George S. Patton standing in jeep passes through town. M-4 tanks en route to the front; troops in trucks and other vehicles along roads. ADVANCE LESSAY TO CANISY.: France: US infantrymen and armored vehicles of the 4th Armored Division on road pass sign, "Periers". MSs, Prisoners rest against wall of building, guarded by MPs. Prisoners sleeping. Prisoners are marched to trucks and transported along road. French civilian jeer at German prisoners. Men in vehicles enter Canisy.

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