In that picture, the one person you can see his facial expression actually looks like he has a smerk on his face.
He’s saying, I’m going to kill them Nazis bastards.
A onetime co-workers dad drove a Higgins boat on D Day. Omaha beach I believe.
The old man said when they dropped the ramp the Germans unleashed hell on the opening. Said he returned to the ship with half the men dead or knocking on deaths door.
By the end of the day they were scooping the dead out of the water by lowering the ramp and skimming the water.
I can’t imagine the type of carnage he witnessed.