Time travel back to 1944 - Haunting “then and now“ WWII photos from the southern France Invasion
“Then and now“ comparisons of World War II photos with the same locations today, depicting German soldiers and Allied paratroopers on the French Riviera in 1944, at the period of Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of southern France.
The Nice area was occupied by German troops of Reserve Division 148. On August 15th 1944, the Allies, spearheded by paratroopers of the First Airborne Task Force, landed in southern France and liberated the region of Nice over the next weeks.
If you are the relative of a soldier who fought in south eastern France and have any photos or documentation about the area during WWII, please contact me at jean-loup@
Allied units involved in the invasion were:
-First Special Service Force / FSSF / 1st SSF
-517th Parachute Infantry Regiment
-509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
-551st Parachute Infantry Battalion
Crocodile Tear Productions, with the participation of Sébastien Cano and Julien Fanet.
Based on the book “Autopsy of a Battle, the Liberation of the French Riviera“. Jean-Loup Gassend. Schiffer publications.
Music: “Night Vigil“ and “Lost Time“, Kevin MacLeod ()
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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German units involved were: Reserve Division 148 - Reserve Grenadier Regiment 239 - Reserve Grenadier Regiment 8 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 372 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 164 - Reserve Jäger Bataillon 28 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 327 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 444 - Reserve Grenadier Bataillon 7 - Ost Bataillon 661 - Kurt Hahn - Festungs-Pionier-Bataillon 14 - Krieg in Südfrankreich - Friedhof Dagneux - Volksbund
Then and now - Before and After - World war II - time travel - back to the future - after the battle - killed in action - ambush - drop zone - missing in action - KIA - MIA - casualties of war - photography - timelapse - Nice - Grasse - Cannes - Sospel - La Napoule - Villeneuve-Loubet - Levens - Col de Braus - Pont de la Manda - St Cézaire sur Siagne - Monaco - Monte Carlo - Menton - Pont du Loup - Cimetière de Caucade - Dagneux German cemetery - Draguignan US cemetery - Antibes - Cote d’Azur - Peira Cava - Wehrmacht - Fascism - chateau de la Napoule - Marvin Moles helmet - comparison - French Resistance - débarquement de Provence - Operation Dragoon - Autopsy of a Battle - The Champagne Campaign - Rhone American Cemetery - ABMC - 1944 - 1939 - 1945
General Otto Fretter-Pico - General Robert T Frederick - Ange Grassi - Seraphin Torrin - execution - hanging - death penalty - Gestapo - FFI - FTP - FABTF - First Airborne Task Force - paratroopers - Operation Dragoon - Southern France Invasion - August 15th 1944 - Liberation - Occupation - animation - 517th PRCT - Wehrmacht - Nazi - vermist - verschollen - gefallen - Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Dagneux - Volksbund - death in paradise - parents at gravesite - nostalgia
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