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 | Drumburgh WWII Bombing Range Target Guide Arrow |  | 08/18/2008 | 57 | 
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 | Mawbray WWII Bombing Range Target Guide Arrow | | 08/18/2008 | 38 |
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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 | 191 |
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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 | 74 |
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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 | 172 |
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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 | 367 |
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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.
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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 | 822 |
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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 | 157 |
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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 | 1,069 |
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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 | 115 |
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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 | 99 |
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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 | 86 |
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 | the site of the old royal navy cordite factory |  | 04/13/2008 | 234 |
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 | Theresienstadt concentration camp (often referred to as Terezín) was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín (German name Theresienstadt), located in what is now the Czech Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp
http://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/showd... | | 04/08/2008 | 671 |
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 | Many Polish casualties of World War 2 were buried in this special section of Newark Cemetery (which lies just beyond the mortuary rooms), including their leader General Sikorsky, whose remains were relatively recently returned to Poland. This photo http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/m602501.jpg was taken on 2nd November 2002. | | 02/18/2008 | 260 |
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 | M.K.B. Malo Terminus was build on top of the old French battery Zuydcoote (1778). The old battery was build as defense against the British, after France agreed to the independence of the United States of America.
Some of the bunkers that still exist today:
four 671 (Schartenstand für Geschütze auf Mittlere Sockellafette (120°) ohne Nebenräume),
a M 162a (Leitstand ... | | 12/21/2007 | 266 |
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 | Four 671 (Schartenstand für Geschütze auf Mittlere Sockellafette (120°) ohne Nebenräume) were built here, but only two are remaining. These bunkers were camouflaged as houses with specially shaped roofs and painted windows and doors. | | 12/21/2007 | 180 |
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 | Just offshore of Charles County, Maryland, across the Potomac River from Quantico Marine Base, lies one of the Potomac River's great historical oddities. From a distance, the water's surface is broken by patches of low scrub covered islands, seemingly overcome by the tide. On closer inspection, the islands have distinct outlines, familiar forms, and an arrangement unusual to behold in most quie... | | 11/28/2007 | 670 |
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 | Strange floating structure right off the shore of Kosakowo, Poland. |  | 11/23/2007 | 356 |
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 | This looks like a comic monster, made from the woods.
It actually used to be a German military sender in the 1930s and 1940. It was destrouyed, but there are still steel and concrete remains visible. There used to be a little pond with crystal clear water where there seems to be the mouth of the monster. | | 11/20/2007 | 665 |
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 | During the period of National-socialism in Germany J. A. Topf & Soehne produced crematories as well as parts of the gas chambers for concentration- and extermination camps, thus making it possible to put the antisemitic extermination program into action. The former headquarter of the company is located in Erfurt and today it is a deserted industrial area.
http://topf.squat.ne... | | 11/20/2007 | 468 |
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 | Heidefriedhof cemetery, Dresden.
Location of mass grave for the estimated 35,000 victims of the Allied bombing raids in February 1945. Many other victims were cremated on the Altmarkt. A sad reminder of the horrors of war. | | 11/11/2007 | 349 |
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 | Location of Taffy 3 Memorial, in remembrance of “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”, during the Battle off Samar, the final stage of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history. | | 11/06/2007 | 199 |
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 | The Tallboy was an Earth quake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. It weighed five tons and, carried by the Avro Lancaster bomber, was effective against concrete structures against which earlier, smaller bombs had proved ineffective. | | 10/24/2007 | 669 |
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