Did this camera that turned up at car boot sale capture the Second World War's most iconic image?

The camera used to capture the most iconic image of the Second World War has turned up at a car boot sale in Wales, experts believe. The emotive picture taken on June 6, 1944, has come to symbolise the D-Day landings, regularly appearing in newspapers and magazines even to this day. A 1940s museum in West Wales thinks it may have stumbled across the very camera used by war journalist Jim Mapham to take the photo from Sword Beach in Normandy. The image of battle-weary troops, described by the U.S. press as 'the greatest picture of the war', is now kept at the Imperial War Museum in London.

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"trying to verify" , "if". This reminds me of two sayings "with enough ifs, you'll put Paris in a bottle" and the second one "show me I'm from Missouri"...

So, until they have evidence , they have nada in my opinion.

 

I think calling it "the most iconic image" is a bit of an exaggeration. I've seen lots of images, and this one doesn't seem to stand out from the rest.

Which raises an interesting question - which image *is* the most iconic? The flag raising at Iwo Jima comes to mind, but I'm sure there are many others, such as the Soviet flag on the Reichstag, that are worthy of a place.

 

Gosh I'm getting so cynical in my old age. Or maybe the stories are getting taller.

Anyhow, I'd like to borrow this camera to photograph the 140 complete Spitfires emerging from the soil of Burma....


.....and then we could merge the threads !

 

140 only, ppfff.... not worth the picture I took of Uncle Addi climbing on the Eiffel Tower and jumping from it with the NSKK helmet used as a parachute in Chaplin's Great Dictator film.
Ps I also have one of Fegelheim trying to lock Hitler in the Loo.