The morning after greater than 130,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, US Army Signal Corps photographer Pfc. Walter Rosenblum captured one of the iconic images of the invasion — a black-and-white photograph of 2nd Lt. Walter Sidlowski recovering from a harrowing rescue effort to avoid wasting a gaggle of soldiers from drowning. Rosenblum would later describe Sidlowski in that moment because the vision of “heroic beauty.”It was June 7, 1944, or D-Day+1. Sidlowski, a freshly commissioned US...
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