Then and Now: Photographer Revisits D-Day Sites

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A photographer visited the sites where pictures were taken during the 1944 D-Day invasion to capture them as they appear today.

Left: The 2nd Battalion U.S. Army Rangers, tasked with capturing the German heavy coastal defence battery at Pointe du Hoc, west of the D-Day landing zone, march to their landing craft in Weymouth, England, on June 5, 1944. Right: Tourists walk along the beachfront in the Dorset holiday town of Weymouth, England, on July 13, 2013. The port was the departure point for thousands of Allied troops who took part in the D-Day landings.Reuters

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June 4, 2014, 11:32 AM EDT / Updated June 4, 2014, 5:51 PM EDT

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