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Items related to World War II (1939-1945) |
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 | During the second world war there was a barrage balloon testing station here and this large shed was used to store the balloon. A large number of different trials and experiments took place here and nearby. |  | 11/19/2009 | 9 | 
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 | This shipwreck belongs to the former Japanese transport ship "Borneo Maru", which sunk on 5 October 1942 during the Aleutian Islands Campaign (3.6.1942 - 15.8.1943).
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/8161/Shipwreck-Borneo-Maru.htm | | 11/19/2009 | 8 |
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 | Midway Atoll (or Midway Island or Midway Islands, pronounced /ˈmɪdweɪ/; Hawaiian: Pihemanu Kauihelani [1]) is a 2.4 mi˛ (6.2 km˛) atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean (near the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago), about one-third of the way between Honolulu and Tokyo. Midway Atoll is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is less than 140 ... | | 11/19/2009 | 22 |
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 | These two wreckages of a "X-craft" midget submarine can be found at the Aberlady beach. During the Second World War, these two were used as training object and after the war attached to a concrete block for target practice.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/8403/X-Craft-Midget-Submarines.htm |  | 11/19/2009 | 22 |
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 | These are made of solid concrete and must each weigh several tonnes. They remain as reminders of the dark days of 1940 when the fear of invasion by Nazi hordes was a real one. Had the Germans reached this far, an unlikely eventuality from what little I know about war games that have been done to model the invasion scenario, it is doubtful whether these obstacles would have done much to make the... | | 11/18/2009 | 12 |
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 | All you want to know about Berlin during WW2: Hitler's chancellery, ministers, U-Bahn, places of interest; Feedback welcomed ( see email adress on Hitler's placemarks ) | | 11/16/2009 | 184 |
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 | A remnant from WWII on Gullane Links. There are a lot of these scattered around the East Lothain coast. | | 11/14/2009 | 22 |
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 | Relics of the wartime defences for RAF Scampton. | | 11/14/2009 | 15 |
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 | Lager Helgoland was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the Channel Islands, named after the Frisian Island of Heligoland (in English, Helgoland), a former British possession handed over to Germany in 1890.
The Germans built four concentration camps on Alderney, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp (located in Hamburg, Germany). Each subcamp was named after one of t... | | 11/14/2009 | 11 |
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 | Serial: 44-6504
Operator: USAAF 303rd Bomb Group (H); 360th BS
Accident Date: 16 December 1944
Accident Site: West Hill (The Cheviot)
Aircraft Accident Details
Together with others, the nine-man crew of B-17G 44-6504 had been given a mission to bomb a railway marshalling yard in Ulm, Germany. However, due to deteriorating weather conditions, th... | | 11/13/2009 | 453 |
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 | The lines encrusted in seaweed are concrete ramps at Sand Quay, Saltash. During World War 2 they were used for repair of U.S. landing craft in preparation for the D-Day landings. The site is now a registered monument. | | 11/13/2009 | 148 |
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 | This is a 4-berth Landing Craft Troop (LCT) hard built in May 1943 and used for D Day embarkation in June 1944. The adjacent harbourside area has recently been rebuilt. | | 11/13/2009 | 23 |
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 | Built by Canadian servicemen in 1942, the metal bridge is a Callender-Hamilton Truss type to allow passage of wartime tanks over the River Lydden, saving the old masonry bridge a few feet away. When the photo was taken, resurfacing had exposed the wooden double-length-sleeper deck, which was found to be partially rotted and required complete replacement, extending closure of the bridge from 10 ... | | 11/13/2009 | 10 |
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 | The Stadtschloss (German: Berliner Stadtschloss, rendered in English as Berlin City Palace), was a royal palace in the centre of Berlin, capital of Germany (1871-1945 capital of the German Reich, 1949-1990 in parts capital of East Germany, 1990 to date capital of reunifed Germany). It was the principal residence (winter residence) of the Kings of Prussia from 1701-1918 and of the German Emperor... | | 11/10/2009 | 48 |
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 | After the new historic photos of Berlin has been uploaded you can see the rear entrance and tower of the Führerbunker. | | 11/10/2009 | 77 |
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 | In early 1944, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was stationed in the southern French town of Montauban north of Toulouse to gain new equipment and freshly trained troops. After the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, Das Reich was ordered to make its way across the country to stop the Allied advance. In the days leading up to the Allied D-Day landings at Normandy, the local French Resistance ha... | | 11/04/2009 | 26 |
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 | On the Central Cemetery of Szcecin are the graves of soldiers who perished in World War 2. Among them are 3.012 soviet soldiers, 20 soviet citizens and 367 Polish soldiers.
There are also 33 Belgian and 6 Polish POW's buried on an other part of the cemetery.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5249/Russian-and-Polish-War-Graves-Szczecin.htm | | 11/01/2009 | 14 |
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 | In order to maintain the graves of German soldiers who were killed in Poland in the Second World War, their graves are brought together from hundreds of locations to 13 large German war cemeteries. This started in 1989 and is not ended yet.
Neumark German war cemetery contains 9,600 graves. Ultimately 32,500 graves will be brought here together.
http://www.ww2museu... | | 11/01/2009 | 12 |
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 | Kasimovo at Leningrad Oblast on 21th May 1943 and photographed by Finnish Air Force.
The interpreter has found five R-5s / R-Zs, eight unknown single-engined planes, a Tomahawk, eleven LaGG-3s or La-5s, two Su-2s and a I-16. Total of 28 planes.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2266/1. | | 10/30/2009 | 31 |
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 | Lavansaari aerodrome in Gulf of Finland on 26th August 1943. The photo interpreter has marked down only three fighter aeroplanes at the north part of the runway but I can see two fighters taking off and an Douglas A-20 at a stand from a close-up.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2103/63. | | 10/30/2009 | 24 |
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 | Former Finnish Air Force aerodrome now used by the Soviet Air Force at Hallinkangas on 10th August 1944.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2266/1. | | 10/30/2009 | 12 |
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 | Morje aerodrome at Leningrad Oblast on 21st May 1943. There are no aeroplanes at the aerodrome and overall the place seems to be not in use.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2266/1. | | 10/30/2009 | 20 |
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 | "Lili Marleen" (a.k.a. "Lili Marlene", "Lily Marlene", "Lili Marlčne" etc.) is a German love song, which became popular during World War II. The poem was originally titled "Das Mädchen unter der Laterne" (German for "the girl under the lantern"), but it became famous as "Lili Marleen".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Marleen | | 10/28/2009 | 17 |
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 | Janowska was a German Nazi labor, transit and concentration camp established September 1941 in occupied Poland on the outskirts of Lwķw (Poland, today Ukraine). The camp was labeled Janowska after the nearby street's name ulica Janowska, nowadays Shevchenka street - Ukrainian: Вулиця Шевченка.
In ... | | 10/21/2009 | 581 |
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 | Sajmite concentration camp (Serbian Cyrillic: Концентрациони логор Сајмиште) was a Nazi concentration camp, located in the Independent State of Croatia, on the outskirts of Belgrade. It was established in December 1941 and shut down i... | | 10/21/2009 | 233 |
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