Outside
View U-Boat Pens - CherbourgMitchell Jamieson #240b
Ink & wash, August, 1944
88-193-IV
Outside
View U-Boat Pens - Cherbourg
Mitchell Jamieson #240b
Ink & wash, August, 1944
88-193-IV
The rear of a reinforced concrete U-boat pen at Cherbourg. These pens protected German U-boats from air attack when they were in port. The rounded top of the pen was camouflaged to make it look like just another arsenal building when viewed from the air. In the background, work was in progress at the time the arsenal was captured.
Entrance
to U-Boat Pen, Cherbourg
Mitchell Jamieson #240a
Charcoal, ink & wash, August, 1944
88-193-IU
This shows the massive entrance to a U-boat pen at Cherbourg with the gate demolished by the Germans, who evidently did not try to demolish the walls themselves - 18 feet thick in some places. The pens were so constructed that additional thicknesses of concrete could be added without altering the basic structure.
Interior
of U-Boat Pen - Cherbourg
Mitchell Jamieson #240c
Ink & wash, August, 1944
88-193-IW
U-Boat
Pen in Arsenal at Cherbourg
Mitchell Jamieson #250
Charcoal & wash, August 1944
88-193-JI
An uncompleted section of the side of this pen is shown in the foreground.
Demolished
E-Boat Pens, Cherbourg
Mitchell Jamieson #V-63
Charcoal & wash, August 1944
88-193-SP
The E-Boat was the German equivalent to the PT Boat. They were used along with the U-boats to harrass Allied ships in the Bay of Biscay.
Overturned
Cars and Arsenal at Cherbourg
Mitchell Jamieson #V-70
Charcoal & wash, circa, 1944
88-193-SW
This scene depicts railroad cars overturned by Allied shells or bombs.
Street
Scene
Mitchell Jamieson #V-76
Pen & wash, circa 1944
88-193-TC
Napoleon
and the GI - Cherbourg
Mitchell Jamieson #238a
Ink & wash, 1944
88-193-IQ
The statue of Napoleon on the Cherbourg waterfront presided over the incessant unloading of supplies via amphibious DUKW "ducks" by African-American troops of the U.S. Army. Napoleon is pointing towards England and the inscription on the base says, "I resolve to rival at Cherbourg the marvels of Egypt." Actually, the Germans with their slave labor from all over Europe and their massive concrete defensive structures came closer to this goal than did Bonaparte.
Cherbourg,
July 4, 1944
Dwight Shepler # 154
Watercolor, 1944
88-199-FB
The first note of a gaiety in a grim month of fighting was a concert by the Cherbourg band on July 4, 1944, in the slightly battered Place de la Republique. An army sound truck announced the event throughout the liberated town, and the battled-dazed populace flocked to the scene, putting on the bright clothes they somehow had saved for such an event. Some of the spectators were just returning to town with their goods and chattels after flight to the outskirts during the siege. The program concluded with "The Star Spangled Banner," "God Save the King" and the "Marseillaise."
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