Robert Capa photographs a soldier on Omaha Beach, Normandy. Circa 1944 [680×450]
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Robert Capa photographs a soldier on Omaha Beach, Normandy. Circa 1944 [680×450]
by Spemberly
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June 6, 1944 to be accurate. One of the most pivotal days of the second world War.
If memory serves, his camera got wet and the roll of film was destroyed with the exception of this one shot.
This is PFC Huston S. Riley of Mercer Island, Washington
source- https://www.reviewed.com/cameras/features/the-incredible-story-of-an-iconic-d-day-photo-that-was-nearly-
lost
…”June 19, 1944, issue of Life magazine. Taken on June 6, 1944, by renowned photojournalist Robert Capa, the blurry image showed a determined soldier, half-crawling, half-swimming to the shores of Omaha Beach, pushing his lifebelt ahead of him. Although Capa’s photo was hailed for depicting unflinching bravery in the face of chaos, it would take 50 years to confirm the man’s identity. After recovering from the D-Day assault, where he was wounded four times, Riley was sent to North Africa and Sicily, and then fought in the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded again. After the war, he returned to Mercer Island…”
source-https://www.historylink.org/File/22989