06-06-15, 01:10 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
Join Date: Jul 2013
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the fabled 11 (out of 106: four lost rolls of film....)
Rule one of warfare: Never be in the first wave...
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Later, many of the men of the Big Red One would say that Capa was insane to go in with the first wave of the invasion when he did not have to.
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http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=29YL535ZXX00  Even out of focus...still the most eloquent shot of chaos on the beach...plan A is now...plan B! The total time Capa spent on Omaha Beach was approximately 90 minutes; But he lived up to his own billing:
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If your pictures aren't good enough your not close enough...
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I held my camera over my head. . . . I stepped into the sea between two bodies . . . and suddenly I knew I was running away,” Capa wrote. As he reached a medical transport boat, he felt an explosion and found himself covered with feathers from the down jackets of the men who had just been blown apart. As the boat pulled back from the beach, the skipper cried; his assistant had literally been exploded all over him.
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!!! pics or it didn't happen!
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Last edited by Aktungbby; 06-06-15 at 08:55 PM.
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