Capa's D-day Landing Photos
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Pete Askew
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Thanks Brian.
Brian Moore
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Incredible,...Capa and other reporters were landing on the beaches with the troops. In that environment the bullets would not discriminate between combatants and reporters. Courageous people. NPR did a report yesterday on the D-Day landings. At the end of it they played a recording made by an English reporter, Colin Wills, as he was about to disembark with the soldiers. Here's the recording that NPR played.
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/06/31955...n-to-a-report-from-the-landing-as-it-happened
Well, the question I had when I listened to that recording yesterday was, did Colin Wills survive? I thought perhaps others may have that same question so I did a bit of research. Turns out Wills did survive. Also, he was actually an Australian who went to England in 1939. Very brief biography below. (I didn't detect an Aussie twang in his voice, so either he had perfected the Received Pronunciation of the BBC, or I was just listening too closely for background sounds.)
http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A23747
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/06/31955...n-to-a-report-from-the-landing-as-it-happened
Well, the question I had when I listened to that recording yesterday was, did Colin Wills survive? I thought perhaps others may have that same question so I did a bit of research. Turns out Wills did survive. Also, he was actually an Australian who went to England in 1939. Very brief biography below. (I didn't detect an Aussie twang in his voice, so either he had perfected the Received Pronunciation of the BBC, or I was just listening too closely for background sounds.)
http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A23747
Pete Askew
Admin
Thanks again Brian. Amazing.
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Wonderful stuff Brian - thank you for these links
I was speaking to mum on the phone, and all of a sudden she comes up with a D-Day story from her childhood which I'd never heard before.
She was on the beach at Skegness on the big day, freezing cold, but determined to 'enjoy' some beach time, and remembers wave after wave of planes going overhead.
No one knew what was happening, only that it was 'something big'.
No idea why she never mentioned that until now - odd to think of a parent being a child on that day.
I was speaking to mum on the phone, and all of a sudden she comes up with a D-Day story from her childhood which I'd never heard before.
She was on the beach at Skegness on the big day, freezing cold, but determined to 'enjoy' some beach time, and remembers wave after wave of planes going overhead.
No one knew what was happening, only that it was 'something big'.
No idea why she never mentioned that until now - odd to think of a parent being a child on that day.
Brian Moore
Moderator
We're very far removed from those days, @Chris Dodkin. But only in some ways. Those of us who had parents who lived through the war have heard first hand stories,...vignettes if you will,...of what it was like. So that connection for us makes the war seem tangible I think. And yet, to our children, it must seem like ancient history.
My mother had four sisters. Every night before they went to bed my grandmother laid out a set of clothing for each child in the event an air raid happened and they had to get dressed quick and get to the shelter. The kids liked the raids because it meant no school next day!
My mother had four sisters. Every night before they went to bed my grandmother laid out a set of clothing for each child in the event an air raid happened and they had to get dressed quick and get to the shelter. The kids liked the raids because it meant no school next day!
Kev Pugh
Well-Known Member
Thanks Brian.......
I think there are stories of Capa developing rolls of film in an improvised dark room in the field using helmets as dip tanks and chemicals taken from from a local abandoned photographers studio....cant remember where I read that now but I remember researching him for a college assignment a few years back
I think there are stories of Capa developing rolls of film in an improvised dark room in the field using helmets as dip tanks and chemicals taken from from a local abandoned photographers studio....cant remember where I read that now but I remember researching him for a college assignment a few years back
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