This is a remarkable, kinetic photograph taken by Fred Ramage in Cherbourg while pockets of resistance were cleared after D-Day. Ramage's back was dangerously toward the German position. Note the soldier at the left holding his pistol while jumping over a corpse as his comrades walk. The dead German was manning a Solothurn S-18/1000 20mm antitank rifle. Of the two rifles visible on the ground, the one nearest the German has its bolt open, suggesting he was killed as he tried to chamber a…
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