In the United States they call them The Magnificent Eleven: eleven photographs taken by Robert Capa on “bloody” Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 and salvaged after a darkroom accident. The American journalist A. D. Coleman offers another version of events: Capa landed with the third wave, and the story of the destroyed films doesn’t add up. Only one of the eleven photographs shows a close-up of a soldier. His name was Huston Riley. The reverse of the image displayed here bears the date 9 June, which is the publication date. The photographs arrived in London on the evening of 6 June and were cleared by the censor on 7 June. On 8 June they were transmitted by belinograph (wired by telephone) to New York, where they were sent out to the press. They were published in the 19 June issue of Life.