Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo showing newly built wooden housing lining a street in Caen, France, nearly three years after the D-Day landings. The image documents reconstruction in a city that had been heavily damaged by Allied air and artillery bombardment during the Battle of Normandy. Mounted on black archival paper with the original AP caption mounted below the photograph. Measures approximately 8⅜ x 7⅜ inches overall. Light handling wear, scattered surface marks, minor corner and edge wear, and age toning consistent with age. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
