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Life
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D-Day The 60th Anniversary (Life Commemorative) |
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No copies available |
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Paperback |
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2004 |
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B000XTKDHS |
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Time Inc. |
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2 dave (USA: DC), dave (USA: DC) |
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2 PatrickDK (USA: MT), Robert & Tracey O'Brien (Ireland) |
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Early in the morning on 6 June 1944, the usual crowd of several hundred gathered outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the first regular Mass. In New York's Times Square, many Americans first learned from electronic bulletins that D-Day had begun. General Eisenhower announced, "The tide has turned ... We will accept nothing less than full victory." Although it had not been rung for over 100 years, the fragile Liberty Bell in Philadelphia began ringing, broadcast throughout the nation over NBC radio. President Roosevelt wrote a D-Day prayer he would deliver on the radio.
Soldiers and beach battalion sailors were threatened with court-marshal for taking diaries or cameras ashore on Normandy D-Day. Photographs were only to be taken by war correspondents and official Army and Navy photographers. Robert Capa's famous photos taken on the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach were some of the invasion's first. Four days later, the Robert Capa photos appeared in LIFE magazine.
LIFE published their 60th anniversary commemorative issue of D-Day, covering June 6 through August 1944 of the invasion. Robert Capa's Easy Red photos appear just as they were printed more than half a century ago! The introduction states, "The Americans who fought in World War II have been called the greatest generation. If this is so, D-Day - with its epic bravery and sacrifice, its brilliant success - might have been the finest minute, the greatest moment!"
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