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Picture of Dead Soldiers on the Omaha Beach


Dead Soldiers on "Omaha" beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. They were members of the 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Photographed by Taylor. Note inflatable life belts draped over some of the bodies, and a box over another. (June 6, 1944).

 

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Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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