Photo of the Day

Picture of an elderly woman holding a picture of herself as a young nurse in the Army and an Army recruitment poster

After D-Day

The June 2002 issue featured "The Untold Stories of D-Day." Here, Evelyn Kowalchuk, a veteran of the Army Nurse Corps, poses with her favorite recruitment poster and a picture of herself. Kowalchuk was a nurse on Omaha Beach, treating the wounded after D-Day— June 6, 1944.
Photography by O. Louis Mazzatenta, Nat Geo Image Collection