PARIS: When Allied troops hit the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, some legendary reporters and photographers were on hand to produce the first draft of history.

Unimpressed military brass kept Ernest Hemingway at sea, sticking him on a landing craft off Omaha Beach. Already well-known, he was part of the assault’s seventh wave, tracking the operation through binoculars amidst cases of TNT.

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