Now this is an incredible use of technology......

Like travelling back in time!!!!....

Directions:

Just click on the photo anywhere and it will become 2014. 70 years later.

Click again and it will go back to 1944.

Read the notes below each photo.

Scroll down for next photo. 

http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/201 … l?ww2-dday

It is amazing, after all the destruction and toll of war, they rebuilt. Often rebuilding to restore as if the war never happened. Very clever photography to capture the scenes from the same point, perspective, and apparently same focal length.

Thanks. Really makes today situation seem trivial by the scope of comparison. The D-Day scenes alone would seem impossible today. Who would launch such a landing, knowing thousands would died on both sides plus all the civilian losses. It seems insane to our 21st eyes and ears.

I recall seeing a similar before and after shot of the Normandy Cemetery, not done to the same degree of overlaying, but just as powerful.

General Colin Powell wrote:
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying that, “Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”

This is a great site!  I enjoyed looking at the images.

Thats a great concept, but really fustrating as you have this major contrast between eye catching images in the wartime ones and then really average snaps in the modern ones.

it loses all its power.

Its screaming out for some quality modern images.

Whoever said War isn't Pretty was Bang-on.