Title from caption on object: “Wounded GIs on Omaha Beach”
June 8, 1944
Artist, American, 1907 - 2002
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.3 × 23.7 cm (7 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
sheet: 20.7 × 25.6 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.340
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
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."