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 | Radegast is a former railway station in Łódź, Poland. During World War II, in the course of the Holocaust, the station, located at the time near the boundary of the Łódź Ghetto, was the place where Jewish and other inhabitants of Łódź were gathered for transport out of the Ghetto and the city to the Kulmhof and Auschwitz death camps. About 150,000 Jews passed throu... |  | 06/09/2009 | 232 | 
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 | Nissen huts at the former 633 German POW Camp Boughton, near Ollerton. There were over one thousand POW camps on British soil by 1946 and a million prisoners, many of whom were being processed through the denazification program. | | 05/23/2009 | 1,246 |
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 | The HQ of the spanish Blue Division in the Leningrad Front | | 04/13/2009 | 246 |
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 | Topo map showing the LVIII Panzer Corps Attacks from Sept 25-29 1944 in Lorraine France |  | 12/18/2008 | 479 |
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 | Aerial reconnaissance photo of the Cussy-Authie-Franqueville area (Northwest of Caen), Calvados France, July 6th 1944. | | 12/18/2008 | 333 |
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 | In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the "Manhattan Engineer District" for the purpose of developing an atomic bomb. By 1944 development of the bomb was under way and the B-29 bomber was selected to deliver the weapon. General Henry "Hap" Arnold, Commander Army Air Forces, named Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. to head the select team. Only Tibbets knew the missio... | | 11/29/2008 | 1,008 |
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 | Another single turret with a pair of 305/50mm guns. These two came from the battleship Jamie I, but from the stern turret, and were also installed in 1941. They could fire armor piercing, semi-armor piercing and grapeshot shells, weighing 385.55 kg, with a charge of 127.70kg and maximum range of 22,000m. | | 11/13/2008 | 218 |
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 | Vigia battery had two 305 mm /50 Vickers-Armstrong guns in one turret. It was built on a large concrete area with all the support facilities underneath, but these could not be visited. These guns came from the forward turret of the battleship Jaime I and were installed in 1941. They could fire armor piercing, semi-armor piercing and grapeshot shells, weighing 385.55 kg, with a charge of 127.70k... | | 11/13/2008 | 182 |
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 | Project Nike was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Labs, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. | | 11/05/2008 | 166 |
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 | Tolverne is a small landing stage where members of the 29th Infantry left England to attack Omaha Beach. Tolverne is situated north of the King Harry Ferry crossing on the river Fal, again north of Falmouth, Cornwall.
The whole of Great Britain was a vast armed camp by 1944. For D-Day the British/Canadian's were held in camps from Bournemouth on the south coast all the way up to... | | 09/30/2008 | 641 |
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 | After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and Germany invaded Poland from the west, Soviet forces occupied the eastern half of Poland. As a consequence of this occupation, tens of thousands of Polish military personnel fell into Soviet hands and were interned in prison camps inside the Soviet Union. But after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 19... | | 09/19/2008 | 1,759 |
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 | The Strecke 46 ("Route 46") is a 70 km long ruin of a "Reichsautobahn" (Freeway of the Reich) that lies between Fulda and Wurzburg.
The construction began in 1937 and stopped in 1940 because materials and manpower were needed for the War.
After the war the plans for this route were rejected and they didn't pick up work again.
In 2003 a preservati... | | 09/17/2008 | 1,589 |
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 | Drumburgh WWII Bombing Range Target Guide Arrow | | 08/18/2008 | 552 |
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 | Mawbray WWII Bombing Range Target Guide Arrow | | 08/18/2008 | 201 |
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 | RAF Warmwell today has been mostly consumed by a gravel extraction operation, although two Bellman Hangars are still in use for fertiliser storage. The Control Tower has been converted into a dwelling and thus many would pass it by without knowing of its former history. Another airfield building has been in use for many years as the village hall. RAF Warmwell was formerly known as Woodsford, th... | | 06/01/2008 | 396 |
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 | A group of "C-type" aircraft hangars at the former RAF Bassingbourn, now Bassingbourn Barracks. Four hangars were probably erected in 1942 when the airfield was upgraded prior to the arrival of American bombers. They were certainly built by 1944. Three of the hangars were extant in 2003, one had been demolished. | | 05/30/2008 | 217 |
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 | Lager Norderney was one of the four Nazi camps on the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. It was located at Saye.
Norderney Camp housed European, (usually Eastern but including Spaniard) and Russian enforced labourers. The prisoners in Norderney were used as slave labourers who were forced to work building the many military fortifications and installations throughout the i... | | 05/28/2008 | 4,220 |
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 | Lager Sylt was the name of the Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the Channel Islands between March 1943 and June 1944. It is thought to have been mainly a labour camp with possibly 1,000 inmates. 460 people are believed to have died in the Alderney camps. These were the only Nazi concentration camps to have existed on British soil.
It was organised by the Schutzstaffel - SS-... | | 05/28/2008 | 5,300 |
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 | Gusen is the name of the biggest and most brutal Nazi concentration camp complex on Austrian territory.
On May 25, 1938, the first lots of land were acquired at Gusen by the SS-company, "Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH" (DEST or "German Earth & Stone Works Company). At that time, the nearby concentration camp of Mauthausen was not yet founded.
The existence of im... |  | 05/28/2008 | 4,382 |
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 | On August 7, 1938, prisoners from Dachau concentration camp were sent to the town of Mauthausen near Linz, Austria, to begin the construction of a new camp. The location was chosen due to its proximity to the transport hub of Linz, but also because the area was sparsely populated. Although the camp was, from the beginning of its existence, controlled by the German state, it was founded by a pri... | | 05/28/2008 | 5,358 |
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 | The 4"/50 (10.2 cm) No. 3 gun from the USS Ward DD-139, which fired the first American shots of the Pacific War, sinking one of the five Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarines that were attempting to enter Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.
It is located in the State Capitol grounds in St. Paul, Minnesota. | | 05/25/2008 | 435 |
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 | If Hitler's audacious invasion plans had meant fetching up at Moss-bay, his Wehrmacht shock-troops would have been in for a nasty set-back. Anti-tank blocks - ingeniously cast in ladles from a mixture of slag and iron - stretched from the works of the Workington Iron and Steel Company at Moss-Bay, all the way to Harrington. This regimentally aligned barrier of 'skulls', of which they were to be... |  | 04/19/2008 | 1,301 |
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 | The 'Robin' hangar pictured here stands with a couple of other small buildings; all that remain of Satellite Landing Ground No:9 located just east of Penrith along the A66. | | 04/19/2008 | 201 |
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 | A small dispersal WWII military aircraft hangar featuring an "A" shaped steel frame clad wit corrugated iron; end doors were supported by outriggers when open.Typically use on aircraft storage units or satellite landing grounds. Variations in size. | | 04/19/2008 | 192 |
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 | The Blister Hangar a cheap and simple aircraft hangar.
This is an airstrip used for Army cooperation on Salisbury Plain Military Training Area. There were two hangars here but one blew down in strong winds. | | 04/19/2008 | 189 |
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