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on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in blue ink: War [circled] World War II / France- D-Day / Casualties; center left stamped in black ink perpendicular: MAY 26 1945; center left stamped in red ink: DAILY NEWS / JUN 12 1964; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Wounded GIs on Omaha Beach. "The / Germans had their 352d Division at / Omaha, an active outfit and a very / good one," says Gen. Eisenhower. "Our / intelligence people finally confirmed its / presence, but only at the last minute-- / too late (for us) to tell our people going / in there, 'Maybe you ought to go in / elsewhere.' So they went right in and / had a terrible fight."

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

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