This is no mystery why images of shocking violence, relentless in the spring to mind when means the deceptively simple term, "d - Day." We have all seen - in the photos in black and white films, old news reels - what happened on the beaches of Normandy, as the allies raised a historic assault on the German defences, on 6 June 1944. But in rare, color photos taken before and after the invasion, the life photographer Scherschel by Frank captured of countless others, scenes of less known of the period which preceded the assault and heady weeks: US troops for training in English towns; the overly lush, French campaign after spectral bridgeheads landscape; receiving GIS has along the way to the capital. the liberation of Paris. As presented here, masterly restored on the anniversary of the d-day invasion of Normandy, color photos of Scherschel sense at-once deeply familiar and in a way completely, strikingly new.
Frank Scherschel/time life & photos
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