[fso301]

The Guardian has a pretty neat interactive display of D-Day landing scenes in 1944 and pretty much the exact location today.

Just click the image to toggle between 1944 and 2014.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for that post. Mile after mile of LST’s, the workhorse of the invastion, disgorging troops and cargo. The logistics challenge was immense, not just to get an army of a quarter million to Normandy, but keep an ever increasing force supplied with ammo, POL, and food. To accomplish that across a sea to a hostile shore was a task I doubt any other nation in the world at that time could have accomplished.