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This is an incredible use of technology ...like traveling back in time!
Getty photographer Peter Macdiarmid and Reuters photographer Chris Helgren gathered archive pictures from the 1944 invasion, tracked down the locations, and photographed them as they appear today. Starting with photo number two, all the images are interactive -- click on them to see a transition from 'then' to 'now', and see the difference 70 years can make.
Note how little changed since. How awesome that they restored and preserved their damaged cities.
Left click and hold on each photo, and then drag your mouse gently from
left to right on the original photograph and will be become a photo of the
exact same location and view today - drag it back to the left and you are back in 1944!
The low lying structures seen in the water in picture two are the remains of the temporary Mulberry Harbour built there and on the other landing locations of Normandy.
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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This is an incredible use of technology ...like traveling back in time!
Getty photographer Peter Macdiarmid and Reuters photographer Chris Helgren gathered archive pictures from the 1944 invasion, tracked down the locations, and photographed them as they appear today. Starting with photo number two, all the images are interactive -- click on them to see a transition from 'then' to 'now', and see the difference 70 years can make.
Note how little changed since. How awesome that they restored and preserved their damaged cities.
Left click and hold on each photo, and then drag your mouse gently from
left to right on the original photograph and will be become a photo of the
exact same location and view today - drag it back to the left and you are back in 1944!
Excellent article thanks for posting...
I did not know till I moved here that this town had a WWII Prisoner of War Camp along with other places in Tennessee.
The original site with several building are now used for the youth 4H Camp.
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