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<p>On the morning of June 6th, 1944, war photographer Robert Capa waded ashore on Omaha Beach during the Allied landings in Normandy. What happened next became the stuff of legend: under withering fire, Capa supposedly captured over a hundred photographs of the chaos and courage of D-Day, only for all but eleven to be lost in a darkroom accident. These surviving images, the so-called "Magnificent Eleven," helped define the visual memory of D-Day and cemented Capa's reputation as the greatest war photographer of the 20th century.</p> <p>But what if the story we've long accepted isn't entirely true? In his book <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1636244734/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=%201472848985&linkCode=as2&tag=thehistoryn0a-20&linkId=d6f99998ab1dab5a39f91ed597aa4b53"> <em>Back into Focus: The Real Story of Robert Capa's D-Day</em></a>, Charles Herrick takes a forensic look at the events of that day, unraveling inconsistencies in Capa's own accou...