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Omaha Beach (Looking West)
© Flavio Martín Morante_February/March 2008
Normandy, France.
At 68 years of D-day tomorrow, I am sharing here a link to a small portfolio from my website, which is called "The Overlord Breeze", with pictures taken back on 2008 during my time on the north of France.
The text I wrote on during that trip, which then I adapted in order to add it to the website reads_
The Overlord's Breeze.
June 6, 1944, D-day, World War II, thousands of lives lost in one single day, the "Atlantic Wall", Ike, Montgomery, Rommel, Europe´s invasion and liberation, the end of occupied France, Overlord, Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold, americans, english, canadians, frenchs, exiled europeans, germans, etc, etc.
These are terms, words and expressions you will find on any search (virtual or not) about the northern region of France that saw one of the biggest military operations in modern history.However today, if you go there without knowing nothing about anything that happen there, if it was not for the museums, souvenirs and remains of the constant desire of man to destroy man and mankind, you will find a place of a unique (and ironically) peacefull beauty.
That´s what I saw when I visited some of these places that I had only read about, and that "contradiction" its what I tried to capture on this series of photographs.
The photographs can be seen by doing click here
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Omaha Beach (Looking East)
© Flavio Martín Morante_February/March 2008
Normandy, France.
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