D Day Rescue, Omaha Beach, France. June 6, 1944

Walter Rosenblum

1944

Photograph of soldiers on the beach, with man in center facing the viewer and looking up, as he kneels on top of a prone soldier.
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Creator Bio

Walter Rosenblum

1919–2006
Photographer Walter Rosenblum was born in New York City, the child of East European immigrants. In 1937 he joined the Photo League, a group of socially concerned documentary photographers. During World War II, he served as a combat photographer with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and photographed the D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches in June 1944. He was the first Allied photographer to enter the liberated Dachau concentration camp.

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