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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: pixelgeek on 28 March 2008, 03:06:59 AM

Title: WWII French Scenery references
Post by: pixelgeek on 28 March 2008, 03:06:59 AM

Can anyone recommend an online source for photos of the French countryside during WWII?

Title: WWII French Scenery references
Post by: Le matou rouge on 28 March 2008, 03:34:39 PM

I'm sorry there is no such site cause there is no typical French countryside : too much different landscapes even if It (?)'s a small country (maybe that's why it's the first touristic destination in the world  :mrgreen: ).

Nothing compare Vendée :

(http://www.ventdesable.com/modules/Gallery/images/Papa/Marais%20Poitevin1.jpg)

To Provence, for exemple  :wink:  :

(http://www.learn-french-in-france.info/learn-french-in-provence-1.jpg)



So, I think you should use google image to find what you're looking for, with simple word as "bocage" for exemple :

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Bocage_country_at_Cotentin_Peninsula.jpg/500px-Bocage_country_at_Cotentin_Peninsula.jpg)

And for Normandie after D-Day, you could search here :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/page7/

meow,
Matt

Title: WWII French Scenery references
Post by: pixelgeek on 28 March 2008, 04:45:19 PM

Quote from: "Le matou rouge"

I'm sorry there is no such site cause there is no typical French countryside : too much different landscapes even if It (?)'s a small country (maybe that's why it's the first touristic destination in the world  :mrgreen: ).

I should have indeed been more precise :-)

Mostly looking for photos of Normandy and the surrounding areas and mostly interested in what a village and farmlands in the area would look like

Thanks for the Flickr link. Many useful photos there.