A member of a British Royal Navy Salvage Unit is lowered from a Cherbourg causeway to a small boat in July 1944

U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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455.Photograph. 'File No: 231949 July 7, 1944 Rush Cherbourg salvage operations to clear way for Allied shipping Garbed in a diving suit, a member of a British Royal Navy Salvage Unit is lowered from a Cherbourg causeway to a small boat from which he soon went below to begin the complicated task of clearing the strategic port of debris for the entry of Allied ships.' France. 7 July 1944

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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Cherbourg
Latitude: 
49.633
Longitude: 
-1.617
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Salvage--France
Diving suits
Sailors--British--France
Hoisting machinery--France
Boats--British--France