As described in a story from the Daily Mail, Dutch historian Jo Teeuwisse discovered 300 negatives in a flea market and began to research the sites of the photos. This photo shows soldiers on Avenue de Paris in Cherbourg in 1944.
The photograph shows almost ghost-like figures from the past appearing in the present-day town. American soldiers march German prisoners of war through the city of Cherbourg.
The place is the same. The context is different. Allied soldiers walking the streets of Cherbourg.
Soldiers leave a church, La Madeleine a Sainte Marie du Mont, in Manche, a town in Normandy.
Soldiers honoring Bastille Day in a town in Normandy. The monument still stands.
The combined images suggest Allied soldiers helping civilians remove a German sign from a modern house.
Soldiers rest against the signs to a church and a hospital. Older versions of the signs are visible below them.
A soldier sits on debris on a now-smooth road in Manche.
German soldiers surrender in 1944, and modern-day Rue des Fosses Plissons in Domfront, Orne.
An American flag is a sign that the Allied forces are progressing.
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