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Omaha Beach, Normandy, France.
Robert Capa on
assignment for Life magazine went in with the first wave at Easy Red sector,
Omaha Beach, (Top) with E Company, 16th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. He
took 106 photos, got off the beach and back to Portsmouth late on June 6, then
took the train to London and turned in the film for development. The darkroom
assistant was so eager to see the photos that he turned on too much heat while
drying the negatives. The emulsions melted and ran down. Only eight photos
survive and they have a grainy quality to them. They became the best known of
all D-Day photographs.
© Josef Corso, 2002.
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