Brilliant work! That must have taken months and months but worth every minute. Many thanks

this is a labor of love- the french people have done a wonderful job of preserving their sense of community. they honor the past, the lives of those who came before and the brave people who fought to free them.

in north america we would have preserved a few points as monuments, but most would have been raised to make way for condominiums, hotels, restaurants, theme parks and the like- europeans, on the other hand, posess a deep sense of history and feel a strong connection to all those who came before and made their lives possible. americans are only interested in "what's next" and where can i get the latest gadget. the human element is largely over looked in north america.

and while here i noticed two posts which are rather immature. to say the least:

to "SnioQ": "works for me ... u r do it wrong :D"

"u r do it wrong"?- what, in the name of all that is sane,are you talking about? have you graduated from elementry school? have you ever done ANYTHING of any consequence?

i think not!



to "FAIL" "Why so many fakes?"

just a few questions:

have you ever been to normandy? what do you base your comment on? and why would you choose a nom de plume such as "FAIL"?

i doubt that you have the attention span to even remember that you were here and made such a ludicrous remark.

it is a pity that we can't make a colection like this from Rotterdam Holland because every thing was blowen a way.

I cant even comprehend the level of dedication you have made to collect these images. you should be very proud of yourself. You should write about it, i know lots of people would be very interested in your experiences!!!!!

Amazing thank you very much.

Nice pics man

These are utterly amazing and awe-inspiring.

And I agree completely with Davy, I'm very proud to be Canadian as well, after seeing these. :)

WOW is all I can say. WOW.

This is truly amazing!

Outstanding collection!!

Thanks, really a wonderful collection of photographs.
Must have been very complicated ...

very very very god.. I'liked it..

Outsanding.
amazing historical event brought back to the memories. congratulation.

What meticulouse, painstaking work. He is truly an artist! Thank you!

Amazing. Wonder photo comparisons.

Wom,thank you very much for showing us so many wonderful photos.And I also want to show you some photo slideshow videos.You can have a see the photo slideshow videos here.
http://dvd-photo-slideshow.com
/support/showcase/index.html 5 photo slideshow videos .May you like them

Wow, great research work, amazing patience, and fantastic photos!!!!
Took me completely into another world....

I like so much these photos, my favorite was one in which you can see an american soldiers in front of a German one, the way they look each other, just to mention that the american one seems like forrest gump.

This is a complete rip-off of Patrick Elie's site!
http://www.6juin1944.com/album
/index.php

Maravilhosa sua coleção de fotos, parabéns!!!

why, why, why..........citizens never want war they sure never want this........destruction. what goes around comes around. same for love. try it, the pics would be outstanding

This was an awesome collection. I'm still looking through them.

I have always dreamed of this! Thank you so much from the very bottom of my heart.

These are amazing. Oh, how the world has changed. Thanks for sharing these.

I absolutely love the concept of this. The great wars should be remembered and we must remember those who fought for us.
These pictures are reality (not tv) and it helps those of the younger generations to appreciate the devastation of war.

Very touching and intriguing to see the before and after's. Some of it was devastated and had to be rebuilt, and some not so much. It always amazes me when things like church steeples did not get hit and remain to this day.

I agree that this should be all put in a book.

Thanks for sharing these pictures, they are just amazing

i may be wrong but i think some of those come from brittany and not normandy

Very moving

For some reason I find the old black and white pictures of the damaged building even more beautiful than the new ones of the restored, not sure why.

It's great! how many years did you search for this pics?

Great Photo's, fantastic research from the photographer, makes very interesting viewing. Must of taken a lot of time and patience to match all those locations.

Also great testament to the residents of Normandy, that they rebuilt everything rather than just pulling down what are ruins and building new different homes, shops and churches. They returned the area to how it was before the war.

Great reminder of what was an awful time for mankind

These are really amazing. I am just shocked by them. Thanks for posting

its was worth the time to look ..i even got my kids to have a look great work m8 ;)

Amazing job, these pictures make me want to visist

great collection of photos , mate.....

I have visited Normandy twice and will go again. it is truly amazing the way they have rebuit the area to appear as it was prior to WWII. The cemetery is one of the most beautiful places on earth and the fallen heros resting there and what they accomplished together must never be forgotten.

now you should show detroit then and after the same years

Boy oh boy the arrogance and derisiveness of Americans. We were so arrogant - we assumed the French didn't want to learn German; and we were so derisive we fought like hell to kick the Germans out of France before most of them could finish learning Ze Deutsch!
All hail the Chosen One - King Hussein Obama! He is so smart!

Agree with all comments that these are exceptional photos put together with painstaking effort by a talented person that has shown his appreciation of an historic era in world history without politicising it. Great Job. As a side issue...for those folks who wondered about the close attention to detail during the reconstruction of buildings in Europe; I just returned from a trip to Europe and was informed by tour guide personnel that most reconstruction of old WWII buildings is done under close scrutiny of the governing authorities and exteriors must be reproduced under exacting conditions to hold the appearance to the original building---however, the interiors are quite modern and can be gutted and rebuilt to the owners specifications.

Astonishing and wonderful. All of those beautiful buildings would have been demolished in the U.S.

Fantastic and memorizing. Many of those great warriors have gone on for their great reward in Heaven while others are still with us living in their 80s and 90s. God bless them all.

My heart is greatly touched by these photographs--I was born in '43, and never knew most of WW2--but my husband was German-he also was born during this time-and our lives reflect the facts of the war. His father was shooting down the planes that my father was building! I mourn the fallen soldiers on both sides, as I mourn our young men in arms today. God bless them, everyone!

incroyable photos. c'est bizarre que j'étais là l'année dernière. j'étais dans les casernes allemandes, j'étais près de la plage ...

My Dad received his Silver Star in the town square of Carentan France. There are pictures of it in the collection. These are great photos. Thanks for helping us remember the cost of the war.

this is awesome work, yes it should be in a book.

My Father was among the U.S. Armored division, at Normandy, when I was born. He never would talk a lot about those times,and I am sure he had his reasons. We lost Dad almost 3 years ago. Although he was wounded while over there, it was cancer that finally did him in.
I am sure he would have appreciated the restoration that has wes done. Again great pictures.

AWSOME ! I live less than 100 miles from these area in Normandy .Seeing those pictures confirm me to be faithfull for ever for your granspas or uncles who fought and gave teir lives for my country .

Can you put them side by side? Great photos.

very interesting.great history. some names please

A wonderful collection. It puts the present into a sobering context. Thank you.