World War II Scenes revived in Modern Google Street view shots

World War II was relatively recent as far as human civilization is concerned, but it can often be difficult to comprehend that the war had in some cases taken place on the very same streets that we walk today. Halley Docherty created this striking series of images by juxtaposing horrific scenes from the Second World War with the same places in the present as shot from Google Street View.

The series shows scenes from crucially important WW2 locations like Berlin, London, Paris, and Hiroshima.

A boy salutes US troops at a parade in San Antonio, Texas, on 1 July 1942.

Crowds watch the D-Day newsline ticker at Times Square, New York City, on 6 June 1944.

German soldiers parade down the Champs-Elysées in Paris, June 1940.

A German civilian gazes at a poster of Soviet leader Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden, Berlin, on 3 June 1945.

The bridge connecting two sections of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, pictured in the first half of 1942, a year before the Warsaw uprising.

Russian soldiers rally at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945.

Cranes remove a bus from the Balham bomb crater, October 1940.

Jubliant crowds line the Champs-Elysées after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

Mounted German soldiers parade from the Arc de Triomphe onto Avenue Foch.

On 14 October 1940, during the London blitz, a bomb partially destroyed the Balham station civilian air raid shelter.

A boy reaches out to his father as Canada’s British Columbia Regiment marches through New Westminster, BC, on 1 October 1940.

A man surveys the wreckage left by the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945.

The ruins of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (pictured), one of the few buildings to remain standing, are now part of the Peace Memorial Park.