Normandy... Then and now

Keith Lane

Keith Lane

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I'm sure Elizabeth will recognize some, if not all of these sites. It's an interesting study on how society in general, and people in particular return, rebuild and thrive after the most horrible of horrible times.....
From an e-mail I got from a former co-worker

" photographer retrieved photographs of Normandy, France, taken during the invasion in WWII and matched them with his photographs today at the site and angles of the WWII photographs.
 

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Very, very nice.

So much history over in Normandy and the rest of Europe.
 
Interesting....thanks!
 
Perhaps even more impressive are some of the places in Germany and Eastern Europe that were decimated completely and rebuilt in their original style. He we done that with the WTC it would be finished by now.
 
steingar said:
Perhaps even more impressive are some of the places in Germany and Eastern Europe that were decimated completely and rebuilt in their original style. He we done that with the WTC it would be finished by now.
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+1.

Vienna and Munich are shining examples. Even Berlin is markedly different than it was during the Cold War (the wall came down 20 years ago, there are few traces left).

Budapest, Bucharest, and Prague are all great cities.
 
So many of those who would remember these sites are now gone.:frown3:
 
How I wish I could have shown this to my Dad before he died in 1995 ... he was there.

Thank you, Keith.
 
Keith, thanks for posting!

London likewise re-built a lot of things as they were. The Blitz took out a lot of churches in the City (Original old London - the Square Mile) and when you go inside you wouldn't know that they are 50 or so years old - meaning the interiors as many did leave standing walls. The Temple Church was in bad shape (you know, the Knights Templar) and it looks good these days (although you can tell the interior roof is new) and St. Clement Danes as well. Many Wren Churches were hit - I'm not sure how many were rebuilt but I plan to find out.

I just got back from London last night - 3 night/long weekend trip - and went inside the above if you couldn't tell. ;)

St. Clement Danes is the RAF church, by the way...

http://www.raf.mod.uk/stclementdanes/
 
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