Album-Souvenir du Débarquement – Landing Memory Album – Three Photo Albums (numbered 1-3) – Les Grandes Heures de 1939-1945. By photographer Marc Elmer, published by Editions de L’entente Nouvelle, Paris. Marc Elmer photographed many of the events during the “Normandy Invasion” and also received photographs from Allied photo agencies, primarily American, British, and Canadian. He published these historical and important photographs shortly after the invasion in the three photo booklets before us, which include images from the invasion months of 1944. France, 1944.
Album No. 1 – Allied Photographs from June 5 – July 13, 1944.
Album No. 2 – Allied Photographs from August – September 1944.
Album No. 3 – Allied Photographs after the Battle.
The Normandy Invasion (code name: “Operation Overlord”) was an amphibious invasion by the Western Allied armies on the beaches of Normandy in occupied France, which took place from June 6, 1944, to June 30, 1944, as part of the Western Front in World War II. On the first day of the invasion, approximately 156,000 Allied soldiers landed on Normandy soil by sea and air, supported by about 12,000 aircraft and 6,939 ships. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The Normandy Invasion marks the opening of a second front in the war against Germany and the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany.
The photographs in the three albums are captioned, and the source of each photo is noted. Dozens of photographs in each album. The booklets are in the same format: 22×14 cm. Very good condition.
