It was 81 years ago today.
Never forget their sacrifice.
by Robert F. Sargent
by Edward Adrizzone
by Orville Norman Fisher
by Robert Capa
by Jack Heath
by Olin Downs
by Manuel Bromberg
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
It was 80 years ago today. Never forget the sacrifice of the men who fought to liberate the world from evil.
Photograph by Robert F. Sargent
“The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” — General Dwight D Eisenhower
Painting by Olin Downs
Painting by Harrison Standley
Photograph by Robert Capa
Photograph by Robert Capa
Painting by Simon Smith
Painting by Ken Riley
Painting by Joseph Gary Sheahan
Painting by Joseph Gary Sheahan
“There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you won’t have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.” — General George S Patton Jr.
Painting by Manuel Bromberg
Painting by Manuel Bromberg
Painting by Laurence Beall Smith
Painting by Harrison Standley
“There’s a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn’t a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.” — Barbara Kingsolver
Photograph by Michael Osmenda
Photograph by Christine Cantera
“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt
It was 79 years ago today.
Never forget their sacrifice.
by Robert F. Sargent
by Tom Lea
by Edward Adrizzone
by Orville Norman Fisher
by Robert Capa
by Jack Heath
by Olin Downs
by Manuel Bromberg
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
On this day, in 1944, the Allied forces landed at the beaches of Normandy and, against overwhelming odds, began the liberation of Nazi-occupied France and later all of Western Europe. At least 4,400 Allied soldiers lost their lives on that day so that others could live free and, on this anniversary, we honor their sacrifice.
Not surprisingly, D-Day has inspired many artists, writers, and filmmakers over the years. Below, for the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, we have 12 paintings and illustrations inspired by D-Day. These works were all done by men who were actually there on that historic day. The majority of them can be found at the International War Museum in the United Kingdom.
by Albert Richards
by Albert Richards
by Anthony Gross
by Edward Ardizzone
by Edward Bawden
by Jack Heath
by Joseph Gary Sheahan
by Manuel Bromberg
by Manuel Bromberg
by Orville Norman Fisher
by Richard Eunich
by Thoms Hennell
Photograph by Robert F. Sargent
“The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” — General Dwight D Eisenhower
Painting by Olin Downs
Painting by Harrison Standley
Photograph by Robert Capa
Photograph by Robert Capa
Painting by Simon Smith
Painting by Ken Riley
Painting by Joseph Gary Sheahan
Painting by Joseph Gary Sheahan
“There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you won’t have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.” — General George S Patton Jr.
Painting by Manuel Bromberg
Painting by Manuel Bromberg
Painting by Laurence Beall Smith
Painting by Harrison Standley
“There’s a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn’t a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.” — Barbara Kingsolver
Photograph by Michael Osmenda
Photograph by Christine Cantera
“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Through the Shattered Lens 