1st Infantry Division Soldiers Honor WWII Medic Charles Shay During D-Day 81 Ceremony in Normandy
U.S. soldiers assigned to the 1st Infantry Division “Big Red One” honored World War II veteran Charles Norman Shay during a ceremony near Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, June 5, 2025. Shay, a 19-year-old medic during the D-Day landings in 1944, repeatedly braved enemy fire to pull wounded Soldiers from the surf to safety. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Jennifer French)
- Date
- 2025-06-04
- Photographer / author
- U.S. Army photo by Capt. Jennifer French
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,672 × 7,008 pixels
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