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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 03:35 pm:

A friend sent me this. Pretty cool...


Pics from the Past of WWII - It is amazing the difference - and sometimes the lack of it- in 70 years!.

Double-left click on the link below, or paste it into your browser, then

HOLD down the left mouse button AND DRAG YOUR MOUSE ARROW GENTLY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ON THE ORIGINAL 1944 PHOTOS AND IT WILL BECOME THE EXACT SAME LOCATION TODAY .... DRAG IT BACK OVER AND YOU ARE IN 1944 AGAIN . scroll down to each new picture.

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


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 04:19 pm:

Pretty cool all right! Thanks for posting it.

Sort of related: Yesterday I watched the 1934 movie, "Here Comes The Navy", starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. Initially, both were stationed on the USS Arizona. Little did they know the historic significance that ship would later obtain.

Then, Cagney was transferred to the "Lighter than Air" program. There were many really neat shots of the Macon and it's hanger in Sunnyvale, CA. It just so happens that the day before I was in Sunnyvale and saw that hanger and observed that the outer metal skin has been removed. The effect between the movie and my 80 years later observation was very much the same as the photos in the link you posted.

I wonder if it's being restored or dismantled?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary H. White - Sheridan, MI on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 05:07 pm:

Dick, That is great. Thanks for posting.
Gary


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 05:21 pm:

Dick
Some one did some great work on these pictures, thanks for posting.

Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By R.V. Anderson on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 06:32 pm:

Thanks for posting the link. I sent it to my 91 year old uncle, a vet stationed in France during the war.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By george house on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 08:29 pm:

You're right ! A lot of the buildings look the same. Thanks for letting us in on that neat contrast


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Gregush Portland Oregon on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 10:23 pm:

Ok that was spooky watching time fade from the past to the present! Looking at people in the past that are gone now, the destruction of war somewhat healed and the fading blurred memory's passing to the present.
Thanks for posting.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Lovejoy, So Cal on Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 12:11 am:

very interesting, thanks


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Woods, Richmond, Texas on Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 01:13 am:

Dick, I tried sending that link to my sister but it comes up saying page not found. Double checked address. Tomorrow, I'll call her in Colorado and walk her through getting to this post of yours so she can check on your link. I wish I knew how to transfer your link to my email.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 09:51 am:

Terry, just sent you a PM....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rich Stinchcomb, Trumbull, CT on Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 02:01 pm:

Very cool link. Looking at the pictures reminded me a similar thing I did with Photoshop years ago.

I started with this aerial picture of an air raid by the 8th Air Force on a Focke Wulf plant at Marienburg, West Prussia (present day Poland).

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Then found the location via Google Earth and captured the satellite view. Transposed the original over the satellite picture and with some stretching of the original to account for the angle of the first picture:

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brian Mettling on Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 06:22 pm:

along that same subject of fading before and after pictures, here is one of Detroit. Then and now. It'll really make you sad.

http://detroiturbex.com/content/ba/feat/index.html


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Davis-SE Georgia on Sunday, July 20, 2014 - 07:02 am:

Very interesting and well done. A shot that would also be interesting (And sobering) is a before and after of the cemetery at Normandy.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By brass car guy on Sunday, July 20, 2014 - 11:53 am:

Several year ago Candy and I spent several weeks in Italy. We don't speak Italian and unknown to me she arrainged to rent a car and I was to drive around the county seeing the sights, on back roads through small towns and villages. Aside from being really irritated and fearful of the drive I settled in.

Back roads all through central and western Italy. What we found were very moving tributes to those men of the "greatest generation". Many small out of the way manicured cemeteries filled with young American hero's. These men actually boys gave their young lives for others to live in freedom.

We silently walked through the rows of white cross head stones reading names ages and the dates of their lives. We wondered what those brave young men might have accomplished had their lives not been cut oh so short.

Most cemeteries had plaques describing the particular battles and the dates. I'm not sure who is responsible for the care and maintenance, but each and every one we found was in complete perfection.

We have visited WW-II cemeteries in Italy, France, Belgium, England and The Netherlands and each and every one is a true reminder of history and the price paid to keep us free.


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