| The old town of Cherbourg was experiencing its semi-weekly apotheosis. |
| True, all the salvage appliances, so the Admiral had said, were at Cherbourg. |
| German bombing of airfields had now made it impossible to fly back, but there was the possibility of taking a torpedo boat from Dunkirk to Cherbourg. |
| His all-night ride from Cherbourg had left him disheveled, unshaven and hungry. |
| We just put the nose down and went weaving and skidding in a dive, passing over the breakwater of Cherbourg at about 400 feet. |
| Legend has it that the church bells were carried off to Cherbourg or Boulogne. |
