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The German garrison of Cherbourg surrenders June 26, 1944. US and German soldiers at the entrance to the underground quarry that served as the Germans' bunker during the Battle of Cherbourg. Normandie

208-AAN-Cherbourg-27974: Normany Invasion, Cherbourg, France, July 1944. Entrance to Nazi Underground Fortress in Cherbourg. Entrance is to a Nazi underground fortress in Cherbourg is shown after the Germans surrendered the city June 27, 1944. It was here that Lieutenant General Carl Wilhelm von Schliehen, Commander of the Nazi garrison at Cherbourg, and Rear Admiral Hennecke, Nazi Sea Defense Commander of Normandy, gave themselves up a day before the general surrender. Twenty-thousand Nazis were taken prisoner at Cherbourg. Originally a U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph: ETO-HQ-44-6049-34. Official Office of War Information Photograph, now in the collection of the National Archives. (2015/03/17).
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