This sad little postcard was 1 euro at the Honfleur outdoor flea market just a few months ago.
All we can be certain of is that one of the signs says ‘Caen’ and the other ‘No Entry’. Judging by the desolation this is Normandy in 1944.
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We would love to be able to match the view today, can you help? To see it up close, click on the picture and then save. You should then be able to open a usefully huge copy.
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This week our match is 73 years out of date. The early postcards reveal a world now lost. They are matched with photos taken in the summer of 1944, in WW2. The wartime quality of the photography is not sharp, but the story is clear. The battle for Caen lasted just under two months and…
First published here 2017 During the Second World War, news, particularly good news was shared quickly across the Allied world. While each battle has been studied in detail by historians over the years, at the time newspapers reported them hurriedly as steps towards freedom. Reading those old papers today we are for a moment transported…
First published 2016/05/14 We discovered this moment in Caen WW2 history reading the marvelous magazine Patrimone Normand ‘Normandy Heritage’ who have very kindly allowed us to use some of their photographs. Caen in the spring of 1944 One spring evening in 1944 Colbert Marie, age 17, left his boxing club with friends the Boutrios brothers;…
