D-Day lensmen come out of the shadows


Images from a 35mm reel with footage from combat photographer Richard Taylor are seen at the National Archives. — AFP

SEATED side by side behind an antiquated viewer, the sisters run and rerun the 35mm black-and-white film reel, whispering to each other about the images captured by their father, the only cameraman on Omaha Beach on D-Day.

In the footage taken on June 6, 1944 in northern France, a handful of US soldiers advance on shore. One falls to the ground, a victim of German bullets.

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