► Photothread: Then and now photographs

[Tony R]

The original caption for this image is dated 17 November 1943 and, translated, reads: ‘Prisoners have returned. Obfw. Aigner explains to Hptm Rabe [about] the capture.’ Shown are paratroopers of 3. Kompanie of Fällschirmjägerregiment 2 at Alinda Bay. Rabe (company commander) is the central figure. Far left is Leutnant Karl Franz Schweiger and to his left Leutnant Willi Blank. Oberfeldwebel Aigner would appear to be the man standing at attention with back to camera.

[Tony R]

On the west side of Alinda Bay, British prisoners of war assist in carrying wounded on to a waiting Pionierlandungsboot close to Villa Belleni, which served as a front-line hospital.

[Tony R]

Campochiaro, Rhodes: 20 April 1944 on the occasion of the 55th birthday of Adolf Hitler. Troops are almost certainly II. Bataillon/Grenadierregiment 16. The place name has since been changed to Eleousa.

[GregSingh]

Lake Marathon Dam, Greece.
Several nice cars and a bike on the old photo...

[Shooter McGavin]

U-Boat bunker in Brest:

U-Boat Bunker 1942

U-Boat Bunker now

The German troops outside the bunker after capitulation:

U-Boat bunker 1

U-Boat bunker 2

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Picture source: "After the Battle" No. 168 and Marine Nationale

[Shooter McGavin]

The American 6th Armored Division closed on Brest on August 7, 1944 reaching Gousesnou in the late afternoon, then the following day the division was in contact with German defenses along a front running from Milizac through Gouesnou to Guipavas, east of the port.

Pic 1

South along Rue des Fusillés in Gouesnou today

Pic 2

Source: same as above post

[Helmut0815]

Berlin in May 45: http://www.welt.de/geschichte/article14 ... heute.html

regards


Helmut

[Cor]

Here's a photo I did of Hitler and Mussolini in Rome. It's a then in now photo. For more photo's if you have facebook check my page https://www.facebook.com/pages/WW2-Then ... 5649008372

[Siegfried Wilhelm]

I like that effect. I have seen American Civil War photos done that way, particularly around Gettysburg where there are so many distinctive rocks and the terrain has been preserved.

SW~

[adalynnadria]

Nice photography, There are many different things in old photography and now photography. Old photographer faces many problems now photography is very easy with the new camera.

[AlifRafikKhan]

Great thread!

[von thoma]

These seem very good to me ;

Germany

London

Moscow

[von thoma]

Saving Private Ryan

[von thoma]

Paris

Reichstag, Berlin

[von thoma]

Ghosts of War, France

Cherbourg, Avenue de Paris

Place Marie Ravenel à Cherbourg

Square cleared Trévières, Place du Marché, June 10th 1944

Basly 27 June 1944, cemetery of the Saint Georges de Basly