[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

[Zinzan]

Same photo.

Noticed but assumed this was some sort of satire/political commentary on the town concerned. <insert irony mode> Warning @Hub6actual Politics NOT allowed, (humour is though.) <end irony mode. begin lithium mode>.

I gotta admit I have enjoyed thinking up several scenarios where such a town could remain unchanged over such a period - think Mafia retirement, CIA/FBI/Witness Protection retirement town, Vampires rule the area, sorcerers/witches, Special forces training town, alien experiments etc.

 

[Deleted member 3576]

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[mTk]

Yeah, sorry about that. My cynicism overtook me.

 

[Louis]

Warsaw, Sept 17, 1939: The Royal Castle was shelled by German artillery. And June 2018, after reconstruction.

 

[Louis]

US troops parade through Cherbourg on the July 14, 1944, to mark the liberation of the city.

 

[Zinzan]

Is them veterans? - Anyone heraebouts know.

I saw the gear, caualness, weapons, body language & facial expressions; made me think it's either that or they are about to go into the front very soon. - (He's being whimsical/thoughtful today. Hmmmmm )

US troops parade through Cherbourg on the July 14, 1944, to mark the liberation of the city.

 

[Louis]

@Zinzan They are not veterans, it is the parade in Place de la Republique. Here you have another angle of that moment: Crowds cheer jubilantly as American troops who liberated Cherbourg, march through the Place de la Republique.

Although I can not specify the correct date. Some images say of July 14 and others of June 27.

In front of City Hall Cherbourg (now Place de la Republique). An American detachment makes the honors are present elements of the 4th, 9th and 79th US ID ....
Photo taken June 27, 1944, minutes before 16:00, at which time the Shift happens. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, commander of VII Corps. Ceremony (very short) to celebrate the liberation of the city with the mayor of Cherbourg.

 

[Zinzan]

@Zinzan They are not veterans,

Possible (likely) misunderstanding (/mispeaking bu Zinzan) Alert! - Sorry.

By veterans I meant troops that had been recently fighting in or near the city - I would assume that a later victory parade would be made with dress uniforms and Bright bansa, Military police etc.

 

[Louis]

An american M10 Wolverine is seen driving down a battle-ravaged street in Rohrwiller, France, on Feb 4, 1945.

 

[Louis]

American artillery battery on the march towards Domfront, about to cross the bridge over the Bagnoles de l'Orne lake, France, 1944.

 

[Louis]

1944, Curious around American tanks after the liberation of Paris, the cathedral of Notre Dame is seen behind.
And this Monday, curious approach to the cathedral to observe the fire of the historic temple.

 

[Louis]

German troops on a street of Haugesund, Norway, one day after the invasion, april 10, 1940.

 

[Louis]

A captured V-2 is paraded through Paris, 1945.

 

[Louis]

Bricquebec, France, june 1944, the US flag flies in Place Sainte-Anne after the liberation.

 

[Louis]

Genoa, Italy, 27 Apr 1945: African-American soldiers entering the Galleria Giuseppe Garibaldi.

 

[Louis]

Rue de Rivoli in the occupied Paris.

 

[Louis]

Feb. 1944, Rome, a column of American prisoners of war in the custody of German soldiers walk along the Via dei Fori Imperiali.

 

[Louis]

German tourism during the occupation of Paris.

 

[Louis]

Captured Tiger II #502 in Poland, 1944, and on display in Kubinka Tank Museum, Moscow, Russia.

 

[Louis]

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in front of his personal Grant tank, 5 Nov 1942. Montgomery used this Grant Medium tank during the battle of El Alamein, today on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.