Ghosts of WWII Past photos

[esheato]

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis

Realllly cool photos of WWII blended with current shots from the same locations.

Ed

This isn't an article but the photos are copyrighted. I do not claim they are mine, only sharing them cuz they're cool.

[TommyGunn]

Cool.   That actually is sort of erie, too.   

[BobR]

Those are really neat. I have seen the then and now types quite a few times but never blended together like this. Thanks for posting the link.

bob

[MicroBalrog]

Many of these photos are taken in St. Petersburg. I was born there. My grandfather fought for several month on the Leningrad front and then nearly starved to death in the Blockade.

Thank you.

[freakazoid]

That is amazing. Can really make you think about the history of certain areas. The kind of things that had happened right where you are. Things that most people probably completely ignorant about.

[280plus]

Very nice, thanks.

I got a kick out of this comment. No matter what you do there's always somebody that wants more. 

Comment by Alice Rohr 3 hours ago Simply fantastic! Thank you! Only I should want the name on all places/street

[Ryan in Maine]

The marching photos creep me out a little.

[brimic]

IE is teh suxxors!!!111. I hope Mr.Gates and his programmers get eaten by rabid possums.

I am able to see the first 2 photos on my work computer, but IE invariably cashes within seconds every time I try to open that site.

[Hawkmoon]

... but IE invariably cashes within seconds every time I try to open that site.

If I were you, I'd pocket the money and hope nobody notices.

[MillCreek]

Amazing.

[BMacklem]

Although the pictures of the marches amid the modern day areas is really fascinating, I think the one that really hits home as to the sorts of things that happen on a spot is summed up best with the picture of the young lads taking firing positions behind some sort of wheeled contraption on a little road off what looks like a church or school up on a hill.

That really makes you think about the sort of things that happened right there on that spot that people just forget about.
Some people lost their lives on that spot(probably), and without that photo, very few would think that a nice little church/school would have been a battleground like that.

Just makes you stop and think for a bit.
Really appreciate what we have, and what others have given for us.

[myrockfight]

The marching photos creep me out a little.

Vhy? Are you skarhed of zeh Germanz?

[lee n. field]

Interesting!  Bookmarked.  Glad I clicked through.

[Jocassee]

I got the chills looking at these this morning.

[White Horseradish]

Many of these photos are taken in St. Petersburg. I was born there.

So was I. Fancy that... :)

I saw this earlier today on another board. I was old enough to get around the city on my own, so I remember many of these places. I also remember the corner of the building with a chunk taken out by an artillery shell that was unrepaired as a small memorial.

Although the pictures of the marches amid the modern day areas is really fascinating, I think the one that really hits home as to the sorts of things that happen on a spot is summed up best with the picture of the young lads taking firing positions behind some sort of wheeled contraption on a little road off what looks like a church or school up on a hill.

That looks like an M-42 45mm anti-tank gun. An up close and personal kind of artillery. There was a lot of turnover in those crews...

That really makes you think about the sort of things that happened right there on that spot that people just forget about.
Some people lost their lives on that spot(probably), and without that photo, very few would think that a nice little church/school would have been a battleground like that.

In St. Petersburg pretty much the entire city is a place where people died. The size of the mass graves is staggering.

[Chuck Dye]

I think I would rather have had the two photos side by side instead of the Photoshop merge.

My first exposure to the concept was as a preteen wandering the Manassas and Gettysburg battle fields.  Later, as a teenager, I spent a day at the bridge over the River Kwai and a day in Nagasaki, and, a bit later, wandered around South Korea.  Very sobering experiences, all.

(Shared a few lunches with a old Japanese man, in a Sasebo restaurant, who said he was a guard at River Kwai and other Burmese POW camps.  He said I did not want to know the things he had done, suggested that he was only slightly less a prisoner of war than the Brits he guarded.  His tales were confirmed by restaurant staff, for what ever that was worth,)