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An iconic image from the Normandy Invasion of France the Second World War, my perspective originally 100 % wrong and I admit so without reservation or qualification.
Famous [iconic] image of an American soldier Omaha beach Normandy having landed in a sorry state, totally sodden and soaked, having lost his helmet, weapon, battle kit, kneeling on the beach, looking inland with a dazed and bewildered look on his face. A man obviously hors de combat and acknowledged as being so. So has been my frame of reference.
But you have to know the rest of the story and thanks to "Coffee or Die" you can read it all and even more.
From the Internet webzine of https://coffeeordie.com | October 15, 2022 | article by Matt Fratus.
"The morning after more than 130,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, US Army Signal Corps photographer Pfc. Walter Rosenblum captured one of the most iconic images of the invasion — a black-and-white photograph of 2nd Lt. Walter Sidlowski recovering from a harrowing rescue effort to save a group of soldiers from drowning."
See the You Tube the iconic photograph within context of that rescue effort:
"The craft was going down Remembering the D Day plus 1 rescue at Omaha Beach"
"Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski and photographer Walter Rosenblum recall a raft rescue at Omaha Beach on June 7, 1944, in this clip from 'Walter Rosenblum: In Search of Pitt Street,' courtesy of Daedalus Productions, Inc."
This also yet additionally the same incident:
From https://www.witf.org | Tim Lambert | JUNE 5, 2019.
"To the photographers who captured the moment, it was 'an act of heroism performed that we shall always remember.'”
This particular event the rescue in occurring D + 1 [7 June 1944]. Devoted readers to the blog and those merely perusing in a much more casual manner you now know the rest of the story and are so much the better for it too. Yours truly also.
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