Illustration - Aerial View of France
FRANCE. NORMANDY. CALVADOS (14) AERIAL VIEW OF OMAHA BEACH. IT WAS THE BEACH ON WHICH THE NORMANDY LANDINGS TOOK THEIR HEAVIEST TOLL OF D-DAY CASUALTIES (30 OF THE TOTAL ON 6 JUNE) AND, ALONG WITH JUNO BEACH, IT HAD THE HIGHEST CASUALTY RATE, WITH ALMOST 8 OF THE LANDED TROOPS DYING, MANY OF THEM BY DROWNING. 1,000 AMERICANS WERE KILLED AND THOUSANDS WOUNDED (THE EXACT TOLL REMAINS UNKNOWN), WITH 90 OF THE MEN IN THE FIRST WAVE KILLED OR WOUNDED. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA004492832
- Registered date
- 2014/2/19 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Compoint Stephane/Only France/ABACA
- Media size
- 5000 × 3333 pixel
- Resolution
- 72 dpi
- Deployment size
- 5.17(MB)*
- Special instruction
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.
