Friday, June 6, 2014

“The Longest Day”…this is D-Day (143 HQ Photos)

“The Longest Day”…this is D-Day (143 HQ Photos)

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“The Longest Day”…this is D-Day (143 HQ Photos)

Posted: 06 Jun 2014 11:19 AM PDT

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Posted: 06 Jun 2014 03:00 AM PDT

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Photo of the Day (Click here for High-Res Photo)

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:15 PM PDT

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Photographer Robert Capa captures D-Day (55 Photos)

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:09 PM PDT

Robert Capa's seminal work on the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 and the Allied troops advance through Normandy to liberate France. As the only photographer in the first wave of the Normandy beach landings by Allied troops, Capa's pictures are the only documents that capture the horror and heroism of the Allies as they disembarked from landing craft into a hail of bullets and sharpnel. "I was in a flat bottom barge that hit the earth of France. When the barge front was lowered there between the grotesque designs of steel obstacles sticking out of the water, was a thin line of land covered with smoke, our Europe, the "Easy Red Beach." The orders came to Life war photographer Robert Capa in London from the United States Army in the last days of May of 1944: You are not to leave your flat for more than an hour at a time. Your equipment must be packed. Capa was one of four photographers chosen to cover the first days of the United States Army's massive assault on Hitler's Europe; he had just enough time to hurry from his apartment on Belgrave Square to buy a new Burberry coat and a Dunhill silver flask. The need for bella figura had been at his core since his childhood in Budapest, where appearances and charm were means to survive. Who didn't trade stories about the mysterious Hungarian Jewish refugee with the mass of dark gleaming hair and velvet eyes? Child-like and beguiling, he was short and moved quickly, as if in flight, a cigarette invariably dangling from his mouth. His disguise was nonchalance. State-less, he glided through battle zones with a confection of papers. He was 30 years old and had already taken some of the most remarkable images of the century: the haggard faces of the Spanish Civil War, the plump air wardens serving tea in the London Underground during the Blitz, Italian children lost in the rubble of Naples. As a child Capa wanted to be a writer; his best work has the intimacy of a storyteller's gaze and passion. He would never cover any war in which he did not love one side and hate the other, noted his biographer Richard Whelan, but his compassion was not partisan. Capa's special genius was to make himself invisible in the field while becoming conspicuously larger than life off of it. The helmet he carried through the 1943 Italian Campaign was inscribed

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Not to be forgotten on this day…our German Allies (69 Photos)

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:08 PM PDT

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D-day then and now (55 HQ Photos)

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:06 PM PDT

Reuters photographer Chris Helgren compiled a series of archive pictures taken during the 1944 Normandy invasion and then went back to the same places to photograph them as they appear today. Source 1 Source 2

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AHHH…no Bad Ideas (2 Photos)

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:03 PM PDT

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