The ruins of Normandy:
Unpublished color photos taken in northern France in 1944 show the devastating
impact of the Allied Force's battle to defeat the Nazis in World War 2
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A series of never-before-published color images of the
devastation in northern France
after the D-Day landings have been released by LIFE.com
The battle-scared landscapes of Normandy
in northwest France
are sharply brought into focus in a series of never-before-published color
images taken in the aftermath of the D-Day landings on June 6 1944.
The five images were finally published earlier this month by
LIFE.com to mark the 69th anniversary of the landings, a significant moment in
World War 2 which resulted in the Allied liberation of Western
Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
The pictures show allied soldiers shifting through the
rubble of buildings reduced to dust and entire towns destroyed by intense
warfare with the Nazis.