(4 Jun 2024)
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Colleville-sur-Mer, France – 3 June 2024
1. Wide of the gravestone of Associated Press photographer Bede Irvin at the Normandy American Cemetery
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Rambert, American Battle Monuments Commission guide: ++starts on previous shot; PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 3++
"Bede Irvin was a photographer with the AP, and he was here in France covering for the Normandy campaign."
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ARCHIVE: Near Saint Lo, Normandy, France – 20 July 1944
3. STILL of the last known photograph of Irvin five days before his death
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Colleville-sur-Mer, France – 3 June 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Rambert, American Battle Monuments Commission guide: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOTS 5-8++
"He was was initially from Iowa, born in 1910. And, he had already spent a few months back in 1943 in the UK covering all the different operations, what was happening in Europe at the time. And he was part of the very first war reporters and photographers to land in Normandy to cover for the Normandy campaign."
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ARCHIVE: Detroit, Michigan – April 1943
5. STILL of Irvin before he was deployed to Europe
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ARCHIVE: London, UK – 4 May 1944
6. Associated Press staffers including Irvin on the News-Photo D-Day invasion team, bottom row, from left, Peter Carroll, E.K. Butler, Irvin, and Jack Rice. Top row, from left, Byron Rollins, Harry Harris, Edward Worth, Horace Court
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ARCHIVE: Maisy, France – 15 July 1944
7. STILL of a religious procession passing through the ruined buildings of the village of Maisy, France. Among those taking part in the Bastille Day celebrations were the padre, officers and men of the 9th Air Force.
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ARCHIVE: Normandy, France – 26 July 1944
8. STILL of an M-10 pulling another out of a ditch in a Normandy lane, just behind the front, in the St. Lo sector, while the tanks were moving up for the attack
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Colleville-sur-Mer, France – 3 June 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Rambert, American Battle Monuments Commission guide: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOTS 10-13++
"The weather was really overcast, lots of clouds, and the bombers at the beginning of Operation Cobra bombed their own troops, causing a lot of casualties on that day and Bede Irvin, who was there to to film the operations from the ground as he was attached to the 9th US Air Force, was amongst the casualties, together with, General (Lesley J.) McNair, who is buried here."
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ARCHIVE: Normandy, France – 16 June 1944
10. STILL of American reinforcements in an LCT (foreground) head for the French Normandy coast under cover of the big guns of a U.S. battleship which blasts away at German targets
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ARCHIVE: France – 20 June 1944
11. STILL of a medical detachment leaving fox holes on a hill overlooking the beach for their march inland in the wake of advancing forces
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ARCHIVE: Near Saint Lo, Normandy, France – 20 July 1944
12. STILL of Irvin’s last photograph showing bombs exploding near German lines
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ARCHIVE: France – 16 June 1944
13. STILL of German prisoners, shoes in hands, wading out to small landing craft which will take them to Britain from one of the Allied beachheads on the French Normandy coast
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Colleville-sur-Mer, France – 3 June 2024
14. Rambert holding photo of Irvin
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Muriel Rambert, American Battle Monuments Commission guide: +STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
16. Rambert placing American and French flags on Irvin’s grave
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