Normandy.
American GIs with a little girl and her puppy in the rubble after the invasion of Normandy, Coleville sur Mer, 1944.
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French fishermen look at the bodies of soldiers on Omaha Beach after D-Day, photo by Robert Capa.
“Capa said he felt ‘a new kind of fear’ on D-Day that made him tremble as he shot pictures. ‘The bullets tore holes in the water around me, and I made for the nearest steel obstacle,’ he said. ‘A soldier got there at the same time, and for a few minutes we shared its cover. He took the waterproofing off his rifle and began to shoot without much aiming at the smoke-hidden beach. The sound of his rifle gave him enough courage to move forward, and he left the obstacle to me. It was a foot larger now, and I felt safe enough to take pictures of the other guys hiding just like I was.’” (Click on image for source.)
Two of the few surviving photos that Robert Capa took when he landed with US troops at Omaha Beach on D-Day. Most of the film from that day was accidentally ruined during development by a lab assistant at LIFE Magazine.
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