WWII - Color, 1944, St Lo, France - Part 1

WWII - Color, 1944, St Lo, France - Part 1 St Lo town entrance sign. Jeeps climbing up hill in town - impressive ruins of St Lo. Sign “Orz Lazarett” hospital? Sign St Lo Bridge and bridge. More Saint Lo destruction - devastated church or cathedral - jeep through ruins - sign “Stars and Stripes” - LS ruins and convoy passing through. Destroyed houses by river? 13:09:52 Bivouac area with small tents inside sports stadium - hot day - perched machine-gunner guarding campsite. Entrance and sign “Parc des Sports de la Falaise”. Ruined St Lo train station? Wrecked hangar or warehouse. GIs at small campsite on roadside. Soldier sleeping under camouflage net with shadow of camouflage pattern on face. GIs smoking, writing or reading letters, reading pulp novel “The Bar 20 rises Again”. Sewing on badge ‘official US war photographer”. 13:12:57 POV from jeep driving through St Lo ruins. 13:13:05 Campsite - haircut given outdoors - other reads in FG - washing laundry in boxer shorts - GIs reading Life Magazine. Blazing red sunset with tree in FG. Looking at map. Photographers getting ready, preparing cameras and leaving camp in jeeps. GIs smoking cigarettes. GIs smoking pipes. Jeeps on road. Troops convoy in trucks on road. WW2; Use of this footage requires a credit as follows: “Includes footage from the George Stevens’ Collection at the Library of Congress”