UPDATE #1 : TWO REMARKABLE PRESENTATIONS ON D-DAY
WERE COMPILED BY GOOGLE'S CULTURAL INSTITUTE AND BY REUTERS, THE INTERNATIONAL
NEWS SERVICE. For a remarkable and thorough file on D-Day
images and memorabilia go to Google or click:
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/entity/%2Fm%2F01lhv6?hl=en
For a glimpse of the Reuters
D-Day coverage look below.
UPDATE #2: Check out what the Huffington Post UK has packaged with the same Reuters images as below: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/06/d-day-landing-sites-pictures_n_5458026.html

1.
A crashed U.S. fighter plane is seen on the waterfront some time after Canadian forces came ashore on a Juno Beach D-Day landing zone in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France, in June 1944 (above). Tourists enjoy the sunshine on the former Juno Beach D-Day landing zone, August 23, 2013 (below).
Images: Then: REUTERS/National Archives of Canada. Now: Chris Helgren, Reuters.
2.
German prisoners-of-war march along
Juno Beach to a ship taking them to England, after they were captured by
Canadian troops at Bernieres Sur Mer, France on June 6, 1944 (above). Tourists
sunbathe on the same beach, August 23, 2013 (below).
Images:
Then: REUTERS/Ken Bell/National Archives of Canada. Now: Chris Helgren,
Reuters.
3.
U.S. Army troops congregate around
a signal post used by engineers on the site of a captured German bunker
overlooking Omaha Beach after the D-Day landings near Saint Laurent Sur Mer,
June 7, 1944 (above). Tourists walk past a former bunker near Omaha Beach,
August 24, 2013 (below).
Images:
Then: REUTERS/US National Archives. Now: Chris Helgren, Reuters.
4.
U.S. Army reinforcements march up a
hill past a German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach after the D-Day landings near
Colleville sur Mer, France, June 18, 1944 (above). Youths hike up a hill past
an old German bunker overlooking the former D-Day landing zone of Omaha Beach
near Colleville sur Mer, France, August 23, 2013 (below).
Images: Then: REUTERS/US National Archives. Now: Chris Helgren, Reuters.
5.
U.S. Army troops make a battle plan
in a farmyard amid cattle killed by artillery bursts near the D-Day landing
zone of Utah Beach in Les Dunes de Varreville, France, on June 6, 1944 (above).
Farmer Raymond Bertot, who was 19 when allied troops came ashore in 1944, poses
on his property near the former D-Day landing zone of Utah Beach August 21,
2013 (below).
Images:
Then: REUTERS/US National Archives. Now: Chris Helgren, Reuters.
6.
A Cromwell tank leads a British
Army column from the 4th County of London Yeomanry, 7th Armoured Division,
inland from Gold Beach after landing on D-Day in Ver-sur-Mer, France, on June
6, 1944 (above). A couple walk inland from the former D-Day landing zone of
Gold Beach August 23, 2013 (below).
Images:
Then: REUTERS/National Archives of Canada. Now: Chris Helgren, Reuters.
7.
U.S. Army paratroopers of the 101st
Airborne Division drive a captured German Kubelwagen on D-Day at the junction
of Rue Holgate and RN13 in Carentan, France, June 6, 1944 (above). Girls run
across the street at the same intersection, June 21, 2013 (below).
Images:
Then: REUTERS/US National Archives. Now:
Chris Helgren, Reuters.
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UPDATE:
Interesting photo essay from the New Yorker magazine re: Faces of Veterans from all WWII forces in mini-profiles:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/06/faces-of-the-second-world-war.htmlutm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_Daily%20(192)#slide_ss_0=15
Interesting photo essay from the New Yorker magazine re: Faces of Veterans from all WWII forces in mini-profiles:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/06/faces-of-the-second-world-war.htmlutm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_Daily%20(192)#slide_ss_0=15
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