Portraits of D-Day Veterans: Then and Now
Olivia Singh — June 6, 2014 — Pop Culture
References: buzzfeed
Frozen In Time: Vets features photos of surviving Normandy veterans by the photographer, Matt Cardy. The portraits were taken as the surviving Normandy veterans were describing their most vivid memory of D-Day.
The portraits in the Frozen In Time: Vets series correspond with the quote by the Veteran in the photograph.
Frozen In Time: Vets show the contrasting pictures of the past and the present appearances of the Normandy vets. The Frozen In Time: Vets series strikes out in presenting the vivid transformation which the survivors of Normandy have gone through since the D-Day.
The very first portrait from Frozen In Time: Vets features David Tibbs who as a young soldier witnessed D-Day and describes the incident as “It was looking out of the Dakota and seeing a white line that was the surf breaking on the Normandy coast. At that moment we were given the order to jump”.
Similar confessions in Frozen In Time: Vets series include Frank Rosier (2nd portrait)saying “As a London boy who had survived the Blitz but had never seen a dead body the carnage on the beach brought me to a complete standstill. It was so horrific that it has stuck with me to this day”.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #3 features Eddie Linton describing D-Day as “Coming on deck for watch early that morning and seeing all those ships. I’d never seen so many ships in all my life. That’s when I knew something was going to happen”.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #4 shows Fred Glover’s then and now picture saying “It was the way we responded when the glider crashed and were immediately confronted by a German patrol. What struck me was that we weren’t affected by the crash but immediately sprung into action just like we had been trained to do”.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #5 captures Pat Churchill with his wife, Karin.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #6 features Vera Hay telling Cardy “The need of the casualties both our own troops and the German prisoners of war. They all were patients to us. They needed rehydration, rest, morphine to keep the comfortable and we were using the new penicillin”.
The seventh Frozen In Time: Vets snapshot shows Denzel Cooper saying “My most vivid memory is watching the tail of a glider come off and then watching what was left of it land safely”.
The eighth picture in Frozen In Time: Vets highlights Alastair Mackie’s experience where he tells Matt “Taking off at 1 a.m. and dropping parachutists in Normandy. The Royal Navy were to our right and I was terrified they would mistakenly shoot us down”.
The second last feature in Frozen In Time: Vets captures Eddie Wallace saying “One of the things I do recall when landing is all the dead bodies that were floating around us. One or two of the lads were sick when they saw that”.
Last but not the least Frozen In Time: Vets tells us about Pat Churchill’s D-Day experience in his own words. Churchill tells Cardy “Seeing later at low tide all those sunken craft. There must have been hundreds of them and thinking you poor devils. That is something I will always remember from D-Day”.
The portraits in the Frozen In Time: Vets series correspond with the quote by the Veteran in the photograph.
Frozen In Time: Vets show the contrasting pictures of the past and the present appearances of the Normandy vets. The Frozen In Time: Vets series strikes out in presenting the vivid transformation which the survivors of Normandy have gone through since the D-Day.
The very first portrait from Frozen In Time: Vets features David Tibbs who as a young soldier witnessed D-Day and describes the incident as “It was looking out of the Dakota and seeing a white line that was the surf breaking on the Normandy coast. At that moment we were given the order to jump”.
Similar confessions in Frozen In Time: Vets series include Frank Rosier (2nd portrait)saying “As a London boy who had survived the Blitz but had never seen a dead body the carnage on the beach brought me to a complete standstill. It was so horrific that it has stuck with me to this day”.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #3 features Eddie Linton describing D-Day as “Coming on deck for watch early that morning and seeing all those ships. I’d never seen so many ships in all my life. That’s when I knew something was going to happen”.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #4 shows Fred Glover’s then and now picture saying “It was the way we responded when the glider crashed and were immediately confronted by a German patrol. What struck me was that we weren’t affected by the crash but immediately sprung into action just like we had been trained to do”.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #5 captures Pat Churchill with his wife, Karin.
Frozen In Time: Vets portrait #6 features Vera Hay telling Cardy “The need of the casualties both our own troops and the German prisoners of war. They all were patients to us. They needed rehydration, rest, morphine to keep the comfortable and we were using the new penicillin”.
The seventh Frozen In Time: Vets snapshot shows Denzel Cooper saying “My most vivid memory is watching the tail of a glider come off and then watching what was left of it land safely”.
The eighth picture in Frozen In Time: Vets highlights Alastair Mackie’s experience where he tells Matt “Taking off at 1 a.m. and dropping parachutists in Normandy. The Royal Navy were to our right and I was terrified they would mistakenly shoot us down”.
The second last feature in Frozen In Time: Vets captures Eddie Wallace saying “One of the things I do recall when landing is all the dead bodies that were floating around us. One or two of the lads were sick when they saw that”.
Last but not the least Frozen In Time: Vets tells us about Pat Churchill’s D-Day experience in his own words. Churchill tells Cardy “Seeing later at low tide all those sunken craft. There must have been hundreds of them and thinking you poor devils. That is something I will always remember from D-Day”.
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