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    ALWAYS TRYING HARDER Ah Pook's Avatar
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    Default Fielder Style Normandy Photos

    Stolen from another site.

    Some powerful images.

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    Those are absolutely fascinating.
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    Good post. Thanks. Couldn't imagine living through that.

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    There are some places in Normandy where there are billboards that show the war damage of a building or chateau in front of the restored structure.
    Sayonara

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    Thank you

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    Awesome. Thanks.

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    I had the honor of escorting 28 WWII Vets back to Normandy for the 70th anniversary and being able to see some of these places that I visited as they were 70 years ago is incredible!
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    I had no idea there was landing craft that big. In movies they always have the little ones holding about 50 guys Those look like ships ran into ground though.

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    Switching back and forth between then and now on that 6th picture of Sainte-Mère-Église is just haunting. I can almost see the spirits of the people leaning out of the window in the older picture, in the newer picture.
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    I find it really neat that in that second picture (the one with modern-day hotel Redesdale Arms Hotel), the stone shading on the hotel is the same now as back then, with the bright patch on the upper left.

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