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| 1881 | North America - USA 1881, 24 September, Scientific American, Magazine illustration, Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs, | In a rather macabre experiment the US Army blows the head off a mule to test if a 10 by 12 gelatino-bromide instantaneous Eastman dry plate can capture the explosion. It does and the official report appears in Annual Report of the Secretary of War for the Year 1882 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882), vol. II, part 1, p. 448. | 1944 | Europe - France Robert Capa, 1944, 6 June (taken) 2007 (publication), The first wave of American troops landing on D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy coast, France; June 6, 1944, [Magnum Founders], Platinum print, bound into a book, Verso Limited Editions, | During the Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) Robert Capa photographs the landings at Omaha Beach. He exposes 106 frames of the heavily laden troops at they struggle past the steel landing craft obstructions before wading to an LCI (landing craft, infantry) to return to England with the first photographs of the invasion. All but eleven blurry images remain after the films are overheated when drying. |