On D-Day morning, June 6, 1944, AP had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English...
On D-Day morning, June 6, 1944, AP had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English departure ports and airfields.
It was early June 1944 — just before the long-anticipated Normandy landings that ultimately liberated France from Nazi occupation and helped precipitate Nazi Germany’s surrender 11 months later.On D-Day morning, June 6, 1944, AP had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English departure ports and airfields.
Associated Press war correspondent J. Wes Gallagher is shown a Thompson submachine gun by Major J.S.P. Armstrong , commander of the Canadian Army's Commando School, on June 10, 1942. On D-Day morning, June 6, 1944, the veteran war correspondent Gallagher directed AP's team from Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Portsmouth, England.At precisely 9:32 a.m., the doors opened and the journalists poured out to release their reports.
This is the last known photograph taken of Associated Press photographer Bede Irvin in Normandy, France, on July 20, 1944. Irvin was killed five days later on July 25, 1944 near the Normandy town of St. Lo as he was photographing an Allied bombardment.
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