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.
