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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/06/thnnzhdt7zpfbvbm126u.png?quality=75970481Today marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, aka Operation Overlord, the single largest seaborne military invasion of all time. How has Normandy changed in the seven decades since? In these perfectly matched photo composites, Getty Images photographer Peter Macdiarmid compares the quaint towns in 1944 and 2014.