Amazing! D-Day Landing Sites. Then And Now!

[OrionHunter]

Hey guys! Here's something that would make you feel you're in a time machine - from Normandy in WWII to the present! How things have changed!

D-Day Landing Sites Then and Now: Normandy Beaches in 1944 and 70 Years Later​

On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers descended on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day, an operation that turned the tide of the Second World War against the Nazis, marking the beginning of the end of the conflict.

On the 70th anniversary of the landings, pictures of tourists soaking up the sun on Normandy's beaches stand in stark contrast to images taken around the time of the invasion.

Reuters photographer Chris Helgren compiled archive pictures taken during the invasion and went back to the same places to photograph them as they appear today.

This one is for your album…..Enjoy!

Tourists walk along the beach-front in the Dorset holiday town of Weymouth. The port was the departure point for thousands of Allied troops who took part in the D-Day landings.

June 6, 1944: US reinforcements land on Omaha beach during the Normandy D-Day landings near Vierville sur Mer, France

June 6, 1944: A Cromwell tank leads a British Army column from the 4th County of London Yeomanry, 7th Armoured Division, after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day in Ver-sur-Mer, France

Tourists enjoy the sunshine on the former Juno Beach D-Day landing zone, where Canadian forces came ashore, in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France

Continued in next post......

 

[OrionHunter]

Youths hike up a hill past an old German bunker overlooking the former D-Day landing zone of Omaha Beach near Colleville sur Mer, France

Shoppers walk along the rebuilt Rue Saint-Pierre in Caen, which was destroyed following the D-Day landings

Tourists walk across the main square of Place Du Marche in Trevieres, near the former D-Day landing zone of Omaha Beach

Girls run across the street at the junction of Rue Holgate and RN13 in the Normandy town of Carentan, France

 

[Rajput_Pakistani]

wowww

As they say, time dont change people change. Many of the buildings are standing there even after 70 years. While people have gone.
I am specially touched by the picture of dead soldier in "main square of Place Du Marche in Trevieres".

We dont know his name, rank, nothing. Just a dead soldier for us.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

Wow. Take a look at this shot, would have been a grand spectacle 70 years back

The color photo shows Omaha Beach on May 7, 2014, near Colleville sur Mer, France. The black and white photo shows American craft of all styles at Omaha Beach, during the first stages of the Allied invasion, June 6, 1944. (Color photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Black and white photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images.)

 

[OrionHunter]

Hell's bells! What a sight it must have been at Normandy with thousands of soldiers milling around, the noise of tanks, airplanes, ships, and the thunderous sounds of gunfire!

Don't you wish you were there?

 

[T90TankGuy]

@OrionHunter,
thanks so much for this mate. brilliant pics