Many men of
the 508th departed from the Port of Le Havre and Robert Gass took a
few photos before boarding his ship.
Unidentified Statue photos by Robert Gass, Co E, may have been taken in Frankfurt
Identified Statue this postcard from the photo library of France has an engraving
of the statue when it was completed in 1924
Monument Aux Morts
The monument was erected by the city of Le Havre Le Havre in 1924 to
remember its soldiers killed during the first World War.
Created by sculptor Pierre-Marie Poisson, the base of the
monument forms a cube (ten meters long, almost five meters wide and
ten meters high) cube.
Six thousand names of the city’s dead line the war monument,
which miraculously wasn’t destroyed in the Second World War despite
the city being ravaged.
Le Havre in the winter of 1944–1945 Some 12,500 buildings were destroyed
Seen Better Days The l'Hôtel de Ville, Le Havre
(photo by Robert Gass, Co E)
The
new l'Hôtel de Ville, Le Havre the 18-story city hall was constructed approximately in its pre-war
position and opened in 1958
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