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D-day landing sites - then and now.
International Business Times ^ | 05/28/2014 | David Sim

Posted on 06/18/2014 2:41:18 PM PDT by Vanders9

As part of the D-Day commemoration, 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.


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: dday; military; veterans
Interesting how some things have changed and some are just the same.
1 posted on 06/18/2014 2:41:18 PM PDT by Vanders9
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There were some in there I hadn't seen before. Thanks for posting.

What a different world we live in now that color has been invented! :-)

2 posted on 06/18/2014 2:47:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Those German bunkers aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

My dad was at Anzio, a combat engineer, and one of his unit's first jobs was to lift mines from just about everywhere. They wound up with an amazing number of the things. What to do with several thousand German mines?

They stuffed them all into one of the bunkers on the beach,as full as it would hold. They ran det cord all through them, ran the cord back a couple hundred yards, got down behind the blade of their armored bulldozer and touched it off.

Dad said that ten or twenty-foot jets of fire came out of every orifice in that bunker, tremendous noise, and . . . nothing. It had no effect on the bunker at all, other than some scorch marks.

He and Mom went back for the 50th Anniversary Victory Tour and the darned thing was STILL there - completely unharmed.

3 posted on 06/18/2014 2:50:59 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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Great Photos! Thanks for the post.


4 posted on 06/18/2014 2:57:44 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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That was fascinating. Thanks for posting it. My uncle was there - looking for him in the photographs.


5 posted on 06/18/2014 2:58:11 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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Sort of a “What they did” and “Why they did it” portfolio.


6 posted on 06/18/2014 2:58:26 PM PDT by IronJack
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 photo UtahBeachFrance1944002_zps97d2cec8.jpgOfficers of the 208th Engineer Combat Battalion preparing to land at Utah Beach.
7 posted on 06/18/2014 3:06:42 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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I was reading the history of Fathers outfit, also combat engineers.

They once pulled 18 mines out of a 9X9 foot plot. The Germans must have stacked them on top of each other.


8 posted on 06/18/2014 4:12:34 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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I’m amazed that so many of the buildings either are still standing or were rebuilt and look exactly the same.


9 posted on 06/18/2014 5:43:12 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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We should get those German builders to fix our roads here in Minnesota to last more than three years.


10 posted on 06/19/2014 10:20:42 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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