Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade’s tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe, 1944.
Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade’s tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe, 1944. Some days after D-Day, Omaha Beach. It had to have been after the artillery was stopped. Crossed rifles on the sand are a comrade’s tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe. Picture taken a few days after D-Day, on Omaha Beach. It had to have been after the artillery was stopped. Those guys on the background aren’t standing around. They’re receiving orders or getting a briefing. Besides, they had stretcher-bearing details for recovering bodies. But why does it seem like more often than not dead soldiers end up face down? Soldiers tend to die as they’re moving forwards toward their objective. It’s not like in the movies. Providing the soldiers are killed instantly (headshot, shot to the heart, etc) they will drop instantly. No throes