From the October 18th Mail Online "Ghosts of war: World War II photography superimposed onto modern street scenes--after finding old negatives at a flea market" by Emma Reynolds.
History expert Jo Teeuwisse of Amsterdam started the project after finding 300-year-old negatives at an Amsterdam flea market. She then went around Europe photographing the exact spots as they looked today. She then superimposed the World War II scenes onto the modern sites and came up with a very remarkable group of pictures.
I just wish all of them would have been like the first picture shown where I got to see the original photo, the site today and then the superimposed one.
Anyway, you can look at them as well, just Yahoo! search "Ghosts of war: World War II photography.
Well Worth a Look. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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