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Photos: Rare color footage brings D-Day memories alive, 75 years later

Associated Press
In 1944, Hollywood director George Stevens recorded the D-Day invasion with color film for his own personal journal.
Here's a look at that footage, 75 years later.

Jun 5, 2019 Updated Jun 6, 2019

D-Day in color

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CORRECTS TO SAY PATTON, LEFT, AND MONTGOMERY, CENTER RIGHT WITH A BERET HAT - U.S. Army Gen. George Patton, left, with a pearl-handled pistol, talks to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, center right with the beret hat, and other British officers in France during World War II. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories.
They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)



U.S. military vehicles and soldiers march down the Champs-Elysees after the liberation of Paris.
Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death. (War Footage From the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)