[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

B-17 attacking a german subs base in Lorient, France, March 1944.
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The Wehrmacht retakes Kharkov in March, 1943. The German offensive cost the Red Army an estimated 90,000 casualties. The house-to-house fighting in Kharkov was also particularly bloody for the German SS Panzer Corps, which had approximately 4,300 men killed and wounded by the time operations ended in mid March.

A German assault gun and half-track in the area of Pavlovskaya Square - and the same area today.

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German Tiger I tank, knocked out at the intersection of Rue Emile Samson and Rue Jeanne Bacon in Villers-Bocage, France, in the wake of the Normandy Landings, June 1944.

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Destroyed and abandoned German military vehicles in the bombed-out streets of Chambois, France, following the Allied advance through the Falaise Gap, August 1944.

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British soldiers on D-Day. Commandos of No. 4 Commando, 1st Special Service Brigade, and troops of the 6th Airborne Division in Bénouville after the link-up between the two forces, 6 June 1944.

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D-Day, Sword Beach. British soldiers, dispatch rider, and Bren Gun Carrier with white Allied star marking on the side, after the capture of Hermanville, 6 June, 1944.

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Mauthausen Liberation / May 6, 1945, the day after the official liberation of the Mauthausen main camp. It shows prisoners surrounding an M8 Greyhound armored car. The liberation of Mauthausen, as shown in the photo above, was reenacted for photographers at the request of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. A banner, written in Spanish, had been put up by the Spanish political prisoners.
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Soldiers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division pass through Sainte-Marie-du-Mont enroute to Carentan, D-Day 1944. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont
was one of the first villages to be liberated in the Normandy invasion.

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The Allied reconquest of France. After a series of fierce battles, a combined force of Canadian and Polish troops seize Falaise on 16th August 1944. The photo depicts troops of the Canadian Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal supported by an M4 Sherman tank of the Sherbrooke-Fusiliers during a sniper hunt, 17th August 1944.

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Normandy 1944. A convoy of American men and materiel on the road between Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin and Coutances.

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Sherman tank and Sherman Firefly of the British Army roll through Escoville during Operation Goodwood. Operation Goodwood was a British offensive in the Second World War, that took place between 18 and 20 July 1944 as part of the Battle for Caen in Normandy, France.

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Cromwell and Challenger tanks of the British 11th Armoured Division enter Flers in Normandy, France, Aug 1944. The people rejoice.

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East of Littry in Normandy, a 4.7 cm Pak (t) Panzerkampfwagen 35r(f) abandoned on the side of the road. It is a Czech antitank gun mounted on a French Renault tank chassis, this vehicle belonging to Schnelle Abteilung 517 of 716 Infantry Division. 20th June, 1944.

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A U.S. M8 Greyhound armoured car parked outside of the l'Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall) in Domfront, France, 1944.

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British tankers aboard a Sherman Firefly celebrate the capture of Le Beny-Bocage, Normandy, 1 August, 1944. And the very same spot today.

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Myles said:
British tankers aboard a Sherman Firefly celebrate the capture of Le Beny-Bocage, Normandy, 1 August, 1944. And the very same spot today.

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Nice, not a lot of chage to house but more buildings in background.

As an aside: We tend to overetimate how densely packed urban areas were during WWII. Many villages and towns (esp in rural areas) have grown hugely esp at cost of open areas IN towns.

(This has continued apace - I know of one market town in UK that has tripled population and reduced open spaces in town centre by nearly 50% in last 30 years.)
 
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