The Beachhead at Normandy as it was, and is

[oneshooter]

http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday

[cantbeserious]

1. Thank You For Sharing

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[shireen]

2. spectacular

thank you, i really liked it.

[Raster]

5. I heartily concur. Thank you!

[d_r]

3. I was on the last one of those LST ships today

[Brother Buzz]

10. Is the LST-325 static?

What with activity on deck, water being pumped, and it docked (beached?) at a peculiar angle, it looks like it's coming or going somewhere.

[d_r]

12. no

It docks on Evansville In. But each year it travels by river to different cities for people to tour.

[Unknown Beatle]

4. Fantastic and fascinating.

Thanks for posting this.

[ReRe]

6. Thanks, oneshooter.

... That's like being there.

[Jenoch]

7. It was not until reading the obituary of

a neighbor we had while I as young that I learned he landd on the beach on D-Day. There was not the relationship where a conversation would have happened where this fact would have come up.

I did have a two hour conversation with a man who was in the Battle of the Bulge. I told his son about that conversation at the vet's funeral. I was embarrassed to learn that the son never had that conversation with his father.

[C Moon]

11. +1

[d_r]

13. a lit of vets

Don't want to talk about it.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Those were some good pics.

Thanks for the thread, oneshooter.

[calimary]

9. A really fascinating photo collection!

Thanks for posting it, oneshooter! Back in the day, indeed.