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Daily Mail: The destruction that followed D-Day: Stunning before and after images show how northern France recovered from the months-long battle when the Allied bombardments and paratroopers forced the Nazis out
* On June 6 1944, wave upon wave of Allied troops poured onto the beaches of Normandy to hails of Nazi fire
* Bombers thundered through the sky to rain devastation on the towns and cities of Normandy in the attack
* Hundreds of civilians were killed and ancient architecture destroyed by the infernos which lit up the night
* And the settlements of northern France were further blown to pieces as battles raged in months of fighting
* Seventy-five years on photos from then and now allow a glimpse into the violent liberation of Normandy
Stunning before and after images show how northern France has recovered from the months-long battles which followed D-Day when Allied bombardments and paratroopers forced the Nazis out.
Warships, bombers, rubble, refugees. That was the Normandy landscape of 1944, as Allied forces fought to wrest France from Nazi control.
Today, the region's towns and beaches are startlingly calm, as still-grateful residents prepare to welcome veterans commemorating 75 years since D-Day.
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