23 Feb 2023 Garand Picture of the Day

[browningautorifle]

Wonder if Basilone's in this pic, still alive? Always wonder who these guys might be.

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[Sarge1998]

I know they were brave, but would a combat photographer be in the first few waves?

[Mark in Rochester]

I know they were brace, but would a combat photographer be in the first few waves?

yes

The Magnificent Eleven are a group of photos of D-Day (6 June 1944) taken by war photographer Robert Capa. Capa was with one of the earliest waves of troops landing on the American invasion beach, Omaha Beach. Capa stated that while under fire, he took 106 pictures, all but eleven of which were destroyed in a processing accident in the Life magazine photo lab in London. The surviving photos have since been called the Magnificent Eleven.

The Magnificent Eleven - Wikipedia