Featured Image: WWII. “Into the Jaws of Death.” A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry,1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of the Company E became casualties. CREDIT: Chief Photographer’s Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent SOURCE (Library of Congress) Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain)
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Published on May 11, 2013
The story of D-Day has been told from the point of view of the soldiers who fought in it, the tacticians who planned it and the generals who led it. But that epic event in world history has never been told before through the perspective of the strange handful of spies who made it possible. . . . From Description uploaded with video.