Photo credits

The photographs on our home page are shown in then-and-now pairs. Each 1944 photograph is in the public domain. Each present-day photograph is used under the Creative Commons licence named below. We cropped and resized every image so the pairs line up; the cropped versions of the CC BY-SA photographs are shared under the same licence.

Omaha Beach, E-1 draw

7 June 1944. Troops of the US 2nd Infantry Division climb the bluff past the WN65 bunker. US Army Signal Corps. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Today. “Normandy 2013” by Archangel12, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Saint-Lô, Notre-Dame church

1944. The damaged tower of Notre-Dame. Photograph by Harry F. Cameron, US Army Corps of Engineers. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Today. “Église Notre-Dame de Saint-Lô” by ChBougui, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Isigny-sur-Mer, war memorial

14 July 1944. A French colonel and the mayor of Isigny lay flowers at the First World War memorial at the town's first Bastille Day celebration in four years. US Army Signal Corps (SC 191978), photographer Collier. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Today. “MonumentAuxMorts-Isigny-4” by Dave osm, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.