Wednesday, June 4, 2014

D-Day Landings Scenes In 1944 And Now

Peter Macdiarmid has taken photographs of locations in France and England to match with archive images taken before, during and after the D-day landings. The Allied invasion to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during the second world war took place on 6 June 1944.
Operation Overlord was the largest seaborne invasion in military history, with more than 156,000 Allied troops storming the beaches of France. Click on a photo to reveal the modern view. You can drag or swipe to control the speed of the transformation.

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