#omaha beach

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Every year on the anniversary of DDay, French citizens take sand from Omaha Beach and rub it onto the gravestones of fallen soldiers who gave their lives to liberate Europe. It gives the letters a golden shine. They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there.

Chaque année, à l'occasion de l'anniversaire du DDay, les citoyens français prennent du sable d'Omaha Beach et l'étalent sur les tombes des soldats tombés au combat qui ont donné leur vie pour libérer l'Europe. Cela donne aux lettres un éclat doré. Ils font celà pour les 9'386 soldats américains qui y sont enterrés.

[dewildegurl1313]

The Normandy American cemetery

They will never be forgotten

[sir20]

Les Braves, St Laurent/Mer by sir20

On Omaha Beach (France), where more than 1200 GIs died on D-Day (June 6 1944), stands a monumental work by Anilore Banon in homage to the dead and the soldiers who fought there.

[theworldatwar]

US soldiers take cover by some cliffs after managing to get a foothold on Omaha Beach - D-day, Normandy, 6th June 1944

[grenadesandglory]

In memory of D-day , June 6th , 82 years ago, let us never forget.

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski kneels over the blanket covered body of an American soldier he had just helped rescue from the surf off Omaha Beach. Exhausted, Sidlowski appears motionless. His dripping wet uniform hugged by an inflated life belt, his face tortured and staring as though he is looking at someone but can’t find the words to speak.

Behind him the scene carries on, other men work to treat those that were saved while waves churn the waters of the English Channel beneath a vast invasion armada. Yet Sidlowski is still, caught in the moment by US Army Signal Corps photographer Walter Rosenblum in one of the most famous images of D-Day.

This image quickly became one of the most iconic of D-Day, used and reproduced by the thousands to represent the titanic struggle that started on the beaches of Northern France on June 6. The only complication to this representation is this photo was taken on June 7, D+1.

(Photo by: Walter Rosenblum/USA)

[davidgriff2]

D-Day: Landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, June 1944

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" I had it bad. The empty camera trembled in my hands. It was a new kind of fear shaking my body from toe to hair, and twisting my face. Remembrance of landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day. "

- Robert Capa

📷 Robert Capa