This haunting collection of images takes us on a journey across the years, combining historical photographs with their modern-day settings.
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WN65:US engineers in control of Vallee du Ruquet German pillbox on Omaha Beach serving as a U.S. Army command post, during the early days of the invasion.Saint Laurent sur Mer, Exit E1 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Shadows on the landscape:32d Troop Carrier Squadron Douglas C-47A-15-DK Skytrain 42-92862 taking off from Poix Airfield (B-44), France, during Operation Varsity, 1945 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
In the pocket: Major David V. Currie (left, with pistol in hand) of The South Alberta Regiment accepting the surrender of German troops at Saint-Lambert, August 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Ultimate sacrifice:Dedication of the 1st US cemetery on French soil,Temp cemetery 1 Omaha beach 12th June 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Out of action:A knocked out Sherman tank,Villiers Bocage June 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Now this is one I have done before,but this is a new version thanks to a great now photo from Oz Qadir – Relief:US troops meet at the corner of what is now Mcauliffe Place,Bastogne .1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
US marines land on Guam 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Another one from the archives I have reworked Load the Medics:US medics jeep being loaded prior to D-Day, Castletown slipway,Portland,Dorset UK 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
2 camouflage German tank destroyers race through the main road of Bourgtheroulde-Infreville Normandy July 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Posing with a captured German flag,Marmion Farm, Ravenoville,Normandy. 1944 – 2015 (now photo Roel van Regteren ty) / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Nothing hidden:MP Lieutenant Unger of the US 2nd Armored Division searches Lt Waffen SS Kurt Peters, 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
A bit damp:Jeeps passing in the flooded village of Bretteville l’Orgueilleuse. 21 July 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Turret view: Major David V. Currie of The South Alberta Regiment supervises the surrendered German troops 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Time off: A US soldier finds time to have so photos taken after the liberation of Maastricht 1945 – 2015 (many thanks to Jennifer Runion who has waited patiently to get me this shot without any cars in the way) / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Approach with care:Counter-sniper team from the 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, preparing to enter and clear a house in Bobenthal, Germany , 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Men from Nos. 15 & 16 Platoons, ‘C’ Company, 1st Battalion Border Regiment, waiting in roadside ditches along the Van Lennepweg to repulse an attack by the enemy, who were barely a hundred yards away, Oosterbeek Netherlands, September 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
In the hole:Four men of the 1st Paratroop Battalion, British 1st Airborne Division, took cover in a shell hole at Wolfheze, near Arnhem, Netherlands September 1944 – 2015 (now photo Koos Winkelman ty) / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Dancing Engineers: A GI entertaining his mates,from the Engineer Special Brigade,Weymouth seafront, June 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Village life :US troops at the water pump in St Marie du Mont 1944 – 2015 / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
Deja Vu :Former Marine Corps Combat Correspondent SSgt Federico Claveria looks at photograph of himself giving an interned Tinian child candy 25 years earlier 1969 – 2015 (USMC photo 41922) / By Adam Surrey / Ghosts of Time
