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Picture of a Dead Soldier on the Omaha Beach


An American Soldier lies dead alongside an anti-landing craft obstruction on "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944. He is wearing an inflatable life belt. Note rifles by his feet, an M1 semiautomatic rifle on the sand, with a M1903 bolt-action rifle laid across it. (June 6, 1944).

 

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Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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