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Normandy. Then and Now

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Jimmie84, Aug 13, 2011.

  1. Jimmie84

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    Normandy 1944. Then and Now (204 pics)

     
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    wow! well done, thanks jimmy!
     
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    that's really cool. thanks for the post.
     
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    It's very cool that they fixed the damaged structures, Rather than tear down and rebuild. I'm always happy to see things, like those pictures.
     
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    agreed. they sure like their asphault over there tho, don't they?
     
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    Amazing how time stands still in some places. Thanks for the link!
     
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    I love the comparison from the same viewpoint. A couple decades ago I was stationed in the Netherlands. I stood on the bridge that is in the movie "A Bridge Too Far" (Arnheim). I felt the nostalgia as I was standing there. At a nearby guest house a life long resident showed us several bullet holes from WWII under the eves of his building.
     
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    I agree! Awesome photos. Thanks, Jim.
     
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    So do I, I know I saw some of those places when I was there. I think this is the same one the photographer took, I only remember a couple of these installations with the large canon intact and the other one had the canon elevated. If I spent more time I could probably find more pictures of the same objects he photographed.
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    I was there in June 2009, his pictures are marked as edited in September 2009. He might have actually been there a couple of weeks before me in June for the 65th anniversary of D day.

    My trip to Normandy was part of a Seine river trip from Honfleur to Paris, We spent a couple of days on the coast before we headed upstream. Of the 120 passengers on our boat, over a dozen were US WWII vets, mostly in their mid to late 80s. Two of our group were French born US citizens who had been in the French resistance.

    When we visited the Normandy American Cemetery, the Cemetery officials held a special cemetary for out group of WWII Vets. Several of our Vets insisted that the two French Resistance fighters be part of the ceremony:usa2:
     

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