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Bomb From B 26 Kills UP War Photographer
A B 26 Marauder delivering airstrike near Pont Hebert killed Associated Press photographer Bede Irvin who hesitated to recover his camera and was struck by bomb fragments. Baltimore Sun photographer Lee McCardell witnessed the moment as Irvin lay crumpled in a ditch with one camera still around his neck. The field was four miles north of St Lo as Allied forces drive in Normandy continues.
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