here<\/a>. Many of the images are accompanied by entirely captivating, interesting, moving, and amazing accounts. More than a few — including the image above — are accompanied by powerful videos.<\/p>\nIt was the invasion to save civilization, and LIFE\u2019s Robert Capa was there, the only still photographer to wade with the 34,250 troops onto Omaha Beach during the D-Day landing. His photographs\u2014infused with jarring movement from the center of that brutal assault\u2014gave the public an American soldier\u2019s view of the dangers of war. The soldier, in this case, was Private First Class Huston Riley, who after the Nazis shelled his landing craft jumped into water so deep that he had to walk along the bottom until he could hold his breath no more. When he activated his Navy M-26 belt life preservers and floated to the surface, Riley became a target for the guns and artillery shells mowing down his comrades. Struck several times, the 22-year-old soldier took about half an hour to reach the Normandy shore. Capa took this photo of him in the surf and then with the assistance of a sergeant helped Riley, who later recalled thinking, \u201cWhat the hell is this guy doing here? I can\u2019t believe it. Here\u2019s a cameraman on the shore.\u201d Capa spent an hour and a half under fire as men around him died. A courier then transported his four rolls of film to LIFE\u2019s London offices, and the magazine\u2019s general manager stopped the presses to get them into the June 19 issue. Most of the film, though, showed no images after processing, and only some frames survived. The remaining images have a grainy, blurry look that gives them the frenetic feel of the action, a quality that has come to define our collective memory of that epic clash.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What’s Up? <\/p>\n
My 17 1\/2 hour travel day was relatively uneventful except for the exhaustion. My first morning in northern Ontario was filled with a mother and baby Moose, Walleye, Northern Pike, nesting Herring Gull, and fishing Bald Eagles. Only nine 1\/2 more days to go. <\/p>\n
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