Many think the war was over the day after D-Day, but nothing could be farther from the truth. My uncle was landed on Sword Beach several months later and they had to fight their way across France. His unit freed Munich in May, 1945.
I’m glad you believe in Corbis, but I have my doubts.
Jan
While the image seen here is indeed a vintage photograph of Red Cross nurses taken during World War II, the specific time and place (Normandy in 1944) commonly assigned to it are wrong. According to Corbis Images, this photograph was snapped on 15 January 1945 (seven months after D-Day) and was taken in the French Riviera area of southern France, not the Normandy region of northern France:
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