[PIC GALLERY] WW2 Then & Now

[Rico]

Kharkiv (Kharkov) must be one of the most fought-over places in the world ... I think it changed hands four times in world war 2.

 

[Louis]

Maginot Line 1944. U.S. troops at the Simserhof bunker, located in the French commune of Siersthal in the Moselle department.

 

[Louis]

Swastikas are displayed at the Paris Opera during the German occupation.

 

[Louis]

Upping barricade on the Pont Neuf, Paris, Aug 1944.

 

[Louis]

Building destroyed by the german bombing in Leningrad.

 

[Louis]

Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, Dijon, France, during occupation time.

 

[Louis]

Americans at Rouffach, France, Feb 1945.

 

[Nelson1812]

All that room... and he still parks on the pavement!

 

[mTk]

When you are a TC the whole world is your parking lot.
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[Louis]

Nice this!
Audouville-la-Hubert, France, 1944.
And recent time.

 

[Louis]

American soldiers look at a mural commemorating the WW1 in Berchtesgaden, Ger. 4 May, 1945.

 

[Nort]

American soldiers look at a mural commemorating the WW1 in Berchtesgaden, Ger. 4 May, 1945.

I notice the dates have been updated to reflect both world wars.

 

[Louis]

@mTk near your home?
Point Montara WWII Radar located near the community of Montara in San Mateo County, California. Deactivated in 1947.
This radar site was established in 1943 during WW2 a part of a chain of some 65 radar stations along the West Coast of the USA and Canada. These secret radar sites were built to provide early warning and interception of approaching enemy aircraft and ships but also served to assist friendly aircraft that were lost or had in-flight emergencies.

 

[mTk]

I did not know...
Yep. Only about a mile north of me overlooking Montara State Beach.

 

[Louis]

I did not know...
Yep. Only about a mile north of me overlooking Montara State Beach.

I did not find current photos of those foundations that have remained. According to the source, that image belongs to the year 2018.

 

[mTk]

This is the remnants of a WWII bunker along the coastal roadway (Hwy1) known locally as "Devil's Slide."
The radar site is somewhere around there.
Montara is in the far background.
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You can see how the road got its name.
It is not in Pacifica. Pacifica is the next town north as you get out of the slide.
The location of the slide is in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County.
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[Louis]

Italian nurses dress injuries for British soldiers in front of the Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania, Sicily. Aug 5, 1943.

 

[Louis]

German soldiers march triumphantly past the French WWI victory monument in Verdun during the fall of France,1940.

 

[Louis]

Carentan, 1944.

(credit D-Day History)

 

[Louis]

Yugoslav partisan posing for the photo in the National Assembly in Belgrade in front of a statue of the Serbian king Dušan the Mighty. Nov. 1944