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Before and after: landing beaches in 1944 vs today in 12 striking images

7/ The way to the beach wasn’t always so peaceful

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8/ These carefree bathers are far from suspecting that just a few years beforehand, it wasn’t changing cabins that lined the beach, but plane wrecks and debris

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9/ The houses on the beachfront have silently born witness to scenes of unimaginable sadness. Thank God it’s in the past.

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10/ The blockhouses, previously populated by soldiers, are now deserted and covered in vegetation

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11/ Nowadays a free space

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12/ Now deserted, this beach-side parking lot was once much more populated…

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