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Photos: Rare color footage brings D-Day memories alive, 75 years later
Photos: Rare color footage brings D-Day memories alive, 75 years later
Associated Press Jun 5, 2019 Updated Jun 6, 2019
In 1944, Hollywood director George Stevens recorded the D-Day invasion with color film for his own personal journal. Here's a look at that footage, 75 years later.
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D-Day in color
CORRECTS TO SAY PATTON, LEFT, AND MONTGOMERY, CENTER RIGHT WITH A BERET HAT - U.S. Army Gen. George Patton, left, with a pearl-handled pistol, talks to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, center right with the beret hat, and other British officers in France during World War II. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)
George Stevens
D-Day in color
Landing craft on the beach during D-Day on June 6, 1944 in France. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)
George Stevens
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D-Day in color
Empty shells on the deck of a ship off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)
George Stevens
Associated Press Jun 5, 2019 Updated Jun 6, 2019
In 1944, Hollywood director George Stevens recorded the D-Day invasion with color film for his own personal journal. Here's a look at that footage, 75 years later.
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D-Day in color
CORRECTS TO SAY PATTON, LEFT, AND MONTGOMERY, CENTER RIGHT WITH A BERET HAT - U.S. Army Gen. George Patton, left, with a pearl-handled pistol, talks to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, center right with the beret hat, and other British officers in France during World War II. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)
George Stevens
D-Day in color
Landing craft on the beach during D-Day on June 6, 1944 in France. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)
George Stevens
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D-Day in color
Empty shells on the deck of a ship off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)
George Stevens
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Gen. Phillippe Leclerc, foreground second right, stands with a captured German officer, left, after the liberation of Paris in 1944 during World War II.
A French girl holding a weapon watches U.S. troops drive past after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
A German officer is escorted by U.S. soldiers after the liberation of Paris in 1944.
French women cheer U.S. soldiers after the liberation of Paris in 1944 during World War II.
