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Normandy battle - high res photos

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

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Fantastic link where you can find hundreds of high res photos of the Normandy Battle. It's in french but very easy to use. In case of trouble, you have "translate.google"!!
http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/rech.php


Only "libres de droit" (don't know how to translate... royalty free?) photos are available in high res.

About the search engine: use only one word per case and only capital letters.

several exemples of photos you can find here:
-> P-38 and L4 at Omaha Beach
http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/PhotosHD/p011345.jpg

-> Omaha Beach, first wave
http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/PhotosHD/p011401.jpg

-> Omaha Beach (probably), D Day + ??
http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/PhotosHD/p012623.jpg
 
Hello Led Zep !

Interesting site, some famous photos and some unknown for me, but in High resolution !

Thanks and whish you the best :salute:
Alain95
 
no, they are A20 Havoc and there is one with D-Day stipes available in ETO.


I've found another link with many, many high res photos of USA at war, from the beginning to end of Korean War. Same as the previous link, many photos just show how awful and cruel the war is:
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Display_CD.cfm


Exemple of photos you can find here:
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_Vi...ath=/Assets/Still/1999/DoD/HD-SN-99-02622.JPG

Note: if the first link doesn't work, you can clik on the "War and Conflict CD" button given with the second link that will redirect you to the whole collection.
 
Accuse me of being an unbeliever, but have they forgotten that the Americans were not on their own? (Just as well, given what happened to them...) All I can find for any of the words I've entered are "image non disponible" or "aucun document trouve"

I even searched for "char" - tank - and got to page 5 before there was one British vehicle. As it was a Sherman, it probably got in by mistake. The first British vehicle identified as such was on page 10... And they failed to identify an Achilles, which they tagged as a "tank destroyer" - synonymous in the French mind with the M-10. It wasn't an M-10 - it has a 17-pdr gun.

When you look for gold or sword or green howards or east yorks or 50 div and there isn't anything, you begin to wonder. Another one of these typically French places where they laud the Americans to the skies (see above) and fail to remember who actually did the work successfully?

I hope it makes some progress.

Feel free to prove me wrong, but as a Brit living in France, you get a bit hacked off with the same litany after a while.
 
Well Nigel, I've also looked for British or Canadian photos with little results. I've also tried to find the famous Sherman photo of the 2ème DB in august 1944 when it goes out of the LST but couldn't find it (the photo is the first left in the 'bandeau' of the front page http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/ )

One of the reason may be besause most of the US photos are free of copyright as I've read it somewhere the other day. It is possible that laws are different in other contries and that photos are protected.
 
I've found the photo that illustrates the book "Quand les alliés bombardaient la France"
from Eddie ?Florentin?, sure most documents are only thumbnails, and the search engine
is some hazardous, but the great ones are fabulous :jump:

I've scan photos from the liberation of the town I was born in, and the village I lived when I was
a child : "Doullens" in the county of "La Somme" such a great place in WWI
In summer 1944 my parents and grand parents had the pleasure to be visited by Canadians troops...

:canada: :ernae: :france:
 
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