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Before and After D-Day: Rare Color Photos

…in rare color photos taken before and after the invasion, LIFE magazine’s Frank Scherschel captured countless other, lesser-known scenes from the run-up to the onslaught and the heady weeks after: American troops training in small English towns; the French countryside, implausibly lush after the spectral landscape of the beachheads; the reception GIs enjoyed en route to the capital; the jubilant liberation of Paris itself.

Read more: http://life.time.com/history/d-day-rare-color-photos/#ixzz1x2MTTNte

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