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
by Robert Capa
Never forget.
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
by Robert Capa
This was taken 78 years ago, on this date.
76 years ago, the real anti-fascists stormed the beaches of Normandy and turned the tide of World War II. Every year, we celebrate the anniversary of D-Day but hopefully we will never forget what it represents. Over 4,000 men sacrificed their lives on that day in a battle against the greatest evil the world had ever known. All of us today owe them a debt a gratitude.
The pictures below were all taken on D-Day:
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
by Robert Capa
Seventy-three years ago today, when the first wave of American troops stormed Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, photo journalist Robert Capa was with them. Capa took 106 pictures on D-Day but, because of an accident at a London photo lab, all but eleven of them were destroyed.
The eleven that survived, nicknamed the Magnificent Eleven, are a portrait of bravery and a tribute to the men who, on that morning, risked (and, in many cases, sacrificed) their lives to help defeat Hitler’s war machine. By the end of D-Day, 4,014 Allied troops were confirmed to have been killed in action.
Robert Capa survived D-Day. Though he initially swore that he would never cover another war, Capa accepted an assignment in 1954 to travel to Southeast Asia and cover the First Indochina War. It was there that Capa was killed when he stepped on a land mine. He was 40 years old.
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 