WWII Vet Says He’s Subject Of Famous Robert Capa Photo
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Robert Capa was landing at Omaha Beach with American soldiers, famously shooting his series of frantic, blurry pictures. One soldier in particular, wearing a resolute expression as he emerges from the sea like some prehistoric amphibian, came to symbolize the landing at Normandy, France.
“I remember it vividly,” said Huston Riley, 86, at an opening of a Capa exhibition in New York Tuesday. “I was wet. I was cold. It was miserable.”"
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