June 6th, 1944: Into the Jaws of Death. Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division disembarking from an LCVP from the U.S. Coast Guard-crewed USS Samuel Chase at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France.
by NapoleonLover978
June 6th, 1944: Into the Jaws of Death. Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division disembarking from an LCVP from the U.S. Coast Guard-crewed USS Samuel Chase at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France.
by NapoleonLover978
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One of the most legendary pictures of the landing.
I don’t know how many times i could see footages from that moment, it’s still unbelievable for me how scary that looks and it’s impossible to not think of how many souls were lost there.
No thank you
Balls. Of. Steel.
I think Tom Hanks called them “murder holes”
Every time man, this picture gets me every time.
Is that before they got ripped to shreds by machine guns or after? Did the camera man live?
Is that a smoke screen we see across the beach?
Zoom in on the shore line. It looks like piles of bodies
Is that someone on the boat? Either gun held to him or on a radio hard to tell. I know stupid me
Those men gave up all of their tomorrows so you could have today.
Iconic picture.
Just an unbelievable event in the history of western society and I wish there was HD footage of it
I guess saving private ryan has to do