Eyes (animated)
No other photograph taken on D-Day matched the great Robert Capa’s intense, jittery, “you are there” picture of American forces landing on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944. Under withering German machine-gun fire, loaded down with weapons and other gear, the Allies took massive casualties — and still they pushed up the beach. With its heady mix of clarity and chaos, taken in the very thick of the battle, Capa’s is simply one of the most iconic war photographs ever made — and a mere glimpse into the savagery and courage that came to define World War II’s “longest day.”
