Many years ago I decided to combine WW2 then & now photos as part of research I was doing.
It caught on and I made more.
History is all around us.
The ghosts of history.
Cherbourg, avenue de Paris, ancien Poste de Police, jardin Public.
Soldiers crossing under fire, 1944.
Captain WH Hooper, who commands the Company of the 314th IR of the 79th IUS D and some of his men surround a column of German prisoners.
Column takes a southerly direction, it will join the POW camps located on the plateau of the Mountain Roule, near the farm of Fieffe.
American soldiers at the Place Marie Ravenel à Cherbourg.
Rue Dom Pedro, civilians and American soldiers tear down the sign indicating the headquarters of the Todt organization in Cherbourg.
Graphic.
26 June 1944, German soldier lying dead on a sidewalk in front of the old café Etasse, Rue Armand Levéel to Cherbourg.
Graphic.
American soldier looking at the body of a German soldier killed after a fierce fight.
Rue Armand Levéel à Cherbourg, 1944.
I wonder if the people who live there today know about this.
British troops, 1943, Acireale, Sicily.
The new order looking around the Binnenhof in The Hague, the seat of government in the Netherlands.
Nazi occupation, German Ortskommandantur at the Lange Voorhout, The Hague.
Secretly made photo by resistance member on bicycle.
Today the building is the Spanish Embassy.
Dam Square, Amsterdam.
Where today tourists mingle once the SS tried to recruit volunteers.
The one that started it all.
I found hundreds of never before published war photos at a flea market, trying to trace where the people in this photo worked I wandered the streets of Amsterdam till I finally found these steps and eventually their work.
More in another thread soon.
Dam Square in Amsterdam moments after the shooting of May 7th 1945.
Just after the German capitulation, for uncertain reasons, (perhaps a firefight) Germans opened fire on the crowds waiting for their liberators.
More than 30 people were killed.
Finally my uncle Dirk.
Portrait of him young & old combined, once a young man with PTSD who just returned from the Battle of the Java Sea and years of being a POW and forced labourer on the Burma Railway.
It never let him go.
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