Thursday was the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the seaborne invasion of Nazi-occupied France that changed the course of World War II.

The opened up another front in the war, dividing Nazi forces.

Peter Macdiarmid's photographs show the human cost and devastation the invasion took.

The images compare how the affected areas looked right after D-Day to how they looked more recently.

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Seventy-five years ago, on June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers stormed Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II.

The D-Day invasion, code named Operation Overlord, was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

Almost 5,000 landing and assault craft accompanied by 289 escort vessels and 277 minesweepers from Canada, the US, Britain, and Australia took part in the operation. The Allies suffered 226,386 casualties, but it proved a decisive moment in the war.

Suddenly, the Nazis were forced to fight on another front in Europe. But the cost of D-Day, in both human lives and devastation of the surrounding regions of France, was immense.

The following photos from the Getty photographer Peter Macdiarmid show an amazing juxtaposition of images from the affected areas of modern France with photos of the invasion from 1944 overlaid on top.

Jeremy Bender composed an earlier version of this article.