7 Haunting Photos Taken in History’s Darkest Corners

7. Shocked Soldier – Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944

An American soldier stares into nowhere, his face blank, his helmet askew, as he walks past rows of wounded and dying men on the blood-soaked sands of Normandy. He isn’t wounded, not physically—but his soul just left his body somewhere between the bullet waves and the screaming ocean.