Robert Capa’s Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf | TIME

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How The Iconic D-Day Photos Were Almost Lost Forever

Watch the video that shows how famed photojournalist Robert Capa’s negatives were almost lost

via Time: http://time.com/120751/robert-capa-dday-photos/

Two men quickly came and helped him reach cover, one of whom, Riley later recalled, had a camera around his neck. The photographer was Capa, and somewhere between the moment when Riley reached the surf and when he was being lifted, wounded, out of the water, Capa made the photo that for generations has defined the chaos and the courage witnessed on D-Day