Like many of you already know, a trip to a WWII battle site is an amazing experience, especially if it's somewhere you've always wanted to visit. For me it has always been D-Day, thanks to the films, 'The Longest Day', 'Saving Private Ryan' and more recently 'Band of Brothers' (DVD's worn thin). So Normandy it was. The trip was a bit 'last minute.com' so in the 3...yes 3 days I had to prepare
I crammed as much research as I could, scared of missing something. Packed my cameras (photography being my second love) and off we went. What an amazing experience
visited as many places as I could, took so many photos I'd probably crash your site if I tried to upload them all. In the 3 weeks I've been back I've had plenty of time to look in more detail at what I saw and photographed.Managed to miss quite a bit, 1 trip is by no means enough. You don't realize until you look into things more closely that you have driven past a lot places without understanding their importance.Well, maybe next time. Anyway, what I tried to capture was the 'walking in the footsteps of heroes' cliquche. It is truly amazing how little Normandy has changed.To start with (be patient, these things take time) are a series of shots taken in Carentan.This is a shot of the 101st Airbourne assembled in the, Place de la Republique, taken around the 16th June 1944. [ATTACH]
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How the same seen looks today
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The same location from a different angel, this time including the 'Memorial for the Dead' from the First World War.
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And finally, my attempt at bringing the passage of 64 years into one frame.
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