This Is Pretty Cool

[Minimalist]

These are photos taken from the Normandy campaign in 1944.  If you click on the photo it shows you what it looks like 70 years later in 2014.
The scars of war can be healed.  At least on the landscape.

https://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/201...l?ww2-dday

[The Valkyrie]

That is really well done.

Thanks for posting.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mad cool, Min. I read somewhere that something like 4% of the beach sand at Normandy is actually tiny bits of metal from the invasion. Staggering.

Boru

[Little lunch]

Nice, but a bit sad the way those fellas vanish like ghosts.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Mad cool, Min. I read somewhere that something like 4% of the beach sand at Normandy is actually tiny bits of metal from the invasion. Staggering.

Boru

Unlikely.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mad cool, Min. I read somewhere that something like 4% of the beach sand at Normandy is actually tiny bits of metal from the invasion. Staggering.

Boru

Unlikely.

That's what I thought.

Microscopic Images of the Sands of Normandy Show Presence of War Sand

Geologist Earle McBride, from the University of Texas at Austin, states that up to 4% of the sand of the beaches of Normandy is made up of this shrapnel. The sand-sized fragments of steel are magnetic and easily discernible under a microscope. The artificial landscape of eroded machinery is still detectable using special instruments in the coastal dunes. At the present rate of deterioration, the magnetic particles will probably be wiped from the sands in another 100 years.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I still think it.

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Mad cool, Min. I read somewhere that something like 4% of the beach sand at Normandy is actually tiny bits of metal from the invasion. Staggering.

Boru

The D-Day landings were conducted by infantry divisions with some tank support. The beaches were then used for landing troops and supplies until the Channel ports were liberated and returned to working order. Ships, truck, tanks and feet crossed those beaches for a good while after June 6th, 1944. It would therefore be obvious that the bulk of metallic debris in those sands would be from post-D-day traffic.

[viocjit]

These are photos taken from the Normandy campaign in 1944.  If you click on the photo it shows you what it looks like 70 years later in 2014.
The scars of war can be healed.  At least on the landscape.

https://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/201...l?ww2-dday

Thanks for share.