Rudeerude…the Omaha pictures are truly an outstanding piece of work…thank you!
Brilliance 
I greatly enjoy your work Rudeerude.
Many thanks, for these pieces of art.
Kind and Respectful Regards Rudeerude my friend, Uyraell.
This is great…thank you Rudeerude!
Hi rudeerude,
this one is really astonishing!!! It’s amazing to realize that houses and buildings are still the same, after almost seventy years… :shock: Since i have seen the first of your work, the main question in my mind is “How did you found every time the right place, where they shot the WWII pictures?” In a simple way, special.
Thank for posting.
ps - i choosed my wallpaper… Thank you!
Very cool to see the new with the old.
Hi skorzeny57 sorry for the late reply.I find my pictures through the internet.I am glad you enjoy my work enough to use for a wallpaper…
Finally an update, here we have Major David Curry of the Canadian, South Alberta Regiment overseeing the surrender of German troops at St Lambert-sur-Dives,France.Major Curry is with his pistol drawn to the left.Unfortunately the perspective was not spot on so a little of the then picture got cropped.Enjoy 
Hi rudeerude,
it has worth waiting for an update… Nice job!! It sounds kind of funny to me the way Major Curry’s handling his pistol, while he’s talking to the man with white shirt (a civilian?). At the extreme left of the original pic, there is a Canadian (Sergeant) that’s shooting the scene with a videocamera.
It seems that Major Currie(correct spelling) earned the Victoria Cross in Normandy.Source wikipedia
Currie was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in command of a battle group of tanks from The South Alberta Regiment, artillery, and infantry of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada at St. Lambert-sur-Dives, during the final actions to close the Falaise Gap. This was the only Victoria Cross awarded to a Canadian soldier during the Normandy campaign (6 June 1944 through to the end of August 1944), and the only VC ever awarded to a member of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
The then 32 year-old Currie was a Major in The South Alberta Regiment, Canadian Army during the Second World War. During the Battle of Falaise, Normandy, between 18 August - 20 August 1944, Currie was in command of a small mixed force of tanks, self-propelled anti-tank guns and infantry which had been ordered to cut off one of the Germans’ main escape routes.
After Currie led the attack on the village of St. Lambert-sur-Dives and consolidated a position halfway inside it, he repulsed repeated enemy attacks over the next day and a half. Despite heavy casualties, Major Currie destroyed seven enemy tanks, twelve 88 mm guns and 40 vehicles, which led to the deaths of 300 German soldiers, 500 wounded and 2,100 captured. The remnants of two German armies were denied an escape route.
Another photo of with Major Currie.
Sergey Larenkov the guy who inspired me to do this merging of now and then photo’s.
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/10/09/echo-of-the-war/#more-19223
Very impressive work! Thanx for sharing! I think that this Sergey Larenkov is a professional photographer and for this reason i think he can handle an huge amount of historical photographic material, that probably comes from some Soviet War Archive. This doesn’t belittle, anyway, his merits for this extraordinary idea and for his creativity.
Fort Traversette then (july 1940)
(thanks to the French friend of this site for the color picture of Traversette recently posted)
For my Italian friends…Thanks DVX
Description from the photo section:
3rd of july 1940, near the frontier between the french region of Savoie and Italy, in the Alps.Nine days after the armistice with Italy have been signed, the 70th Alpine Fortress Battalion led by sous-lieutenant Desserteaux, having received a formal order, finally accept to leave the fort the Redoute Ruinée. They had hold it, in the end isolated from the main french line, despite several assaults by enemy infantry and bombardments by artillery and planes.On the left the italian soldiers salute the French as they leave.
By special request for my Italian friend skorzeny57,who went out and took the now pictures in Arnaldo Square,Brescia Italy.He is local to the town.The then picture is Brescia 1943.Enjoy
Really good job, mate! I’think it’s been difficult to merge two images do different… An almost desert square with one with a lot of traffic. You forget to tell how dangerous has been the attempt to shoot the “Now” picture… In order to stand in the right place where the German photographer stood, a couple of cars almost ran over me… 
Thanx
What an amazing job on all of these pictures!! I am American now living in Belgium. I never cared much for WWII history until I joined the Army and got stationed in Belgium. Within my first weeks here, we did a staff ride touring the Battle of the Bulge with some amazing tour guides who had done many personal interviews which made their tour so much the better. We also watched some clips from Band of Brothers related to whatever area we had just visited each time we got back on the tour bus. After that, I was hooked. These photos are amazing and I think many of us here try to do this in our minds…that was then, this is now, I wonder what it was like…and then here you are giving up the pictures to help us even more. There will never enough ways to say thank you!
kajones ,you are welcome and thank you very much for your kind comment.I am glad that you enjoyed my transformation of now and then photos.
