Memories of World War II

The operation conducted by the U.S. Army in 1944 to land on the largest suffered by the world wars left in the French province of Normandy, a track that even today, more than 60 years later, remains unchanged. Therefore Normandy, Berlin, Hiroshima and Hawaii are now places of pilgrimage with great interest. Places to retain a memory that, fortunately or unfortunately, will never be forgotten.

Photography by Erik Cleves Kristensen

Machine-gun nests on the beach:

It is still possible to walk on the sand of some beaches in northern France and bump into the metal parapets behind which the soldiers took shelter from the bullets, see the sea through the shelters from which the German infantry tried unsuccessfully to curb allies and even found some mythical Sherman tank along the promenade. (más…)