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Items related to World War II (1939-1945) |
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 | 8301 soldiers lay to rest at Margraten on this moment, 2 unknown soldiers are burried in one grave.
Last year, this cemetery was visit by President Bush. |  | 01/22/2006 | 369 | 
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 | It was the Bridge Too Far which was the last British defeat of the Second World War. The audacious attempt to race through the Netherlands from Arnhem and sweep into Germany failed to shorten the war and cost 8,000 Allied lives. |  | 01/22/2006 | 605 |
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 | Side scan sonar image of the SS Albertville, sank in 1940 after the German invade belgium.
Sister ship of the SS Leopoldville sank in 1944.
you can also see a crabpot line
© CERES 2006 – more at www.ceresm.com
Acquisition: EdgeTech 272TD Side Scan Sonar
Processing: TEI Suite, Isis & Delphmap |  | 01/18/2006 | 510 |
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 | Site of WW2 anti-aircraft battery | | 01/06/2006 | 169 |
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 | WWII practice target ranges (the small square/rectangular clearings). These ranges were used by Thunderbolts from the Millville Army Airfield in Millville NJ, nearby. Millville Army Airfield was America's first defense field and is home to a very nice aviation museum, dedicated to the field. | | 01/02/2006 | 276 |
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 | Location of sunken Elektro-submarines (Type XXI and XXIII) in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_XXI_U-boat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_XXIII_U-boat
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 12/28/2005 | 1,001 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
1941 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 12/28/2005 | 773 |
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 | Here are some of the remaining air protection shelter and the 2 anti-aircraft-towers in Hamburg. |  | 12/28/2005 | 476 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
1941 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 12/23/2005 | 1,413 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
1941 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 12/23/2005 | 1,074 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
1941 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 12/21/2005 | 1,051 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
1941 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. |  | 12/20/2005 | 912 |
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 | Home the 303th Bomb Group (H) "Hell's Angels" | | 12/13/2005 | 310 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
1941 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. |  | 12/11/2005 | 771 |
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 | This airfield was used to support SOE and Glider operations during WW2. It later became the base for Flight Refuelling Ltd. (Cobham Plc.). |  | 12/10/2005 | 209 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
1941 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 12/02/2005 | 907 |
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 | In May 1942, a lone Spitfire on a routine reconnaissance mission over northern Germany changed this. Flight Lieutenant D. W. Steventon brought back photographs of the Peenemunde airfield along the Baltic coast that revealed evidence of construction activity with circular emplacements on the ground. Photographic interpreters, however, were unable to locate anything out of the ordinary from the p... | | 11/30/2005 | 2,995 |
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 | Mission 36
Bombs falling towards Heligoland from 26,000 feet - 15 May 1943. Photo taken from the camera pit of #41-24577 "Hell's Angels" | | 11/30/2005 | 504 |
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 | 18th April 1945
969 aircraft - 617 Lancasters, 332 Halifaxes, 20 Mosquitos - of all groups attacked the naval base at Heligoland, the airfield and the town on this small island. The bombing was accurate and the target areas were turned almost into crater-pitted moonscapes. 3 Halifaxes were lost. | | 11/30/2005 | 428 |
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 | A bomb fall plot of the March 24, 1945 raid on the Munich-Riem Airdrome, conducted by the A-2 section of the USAAF 304th Bomb Wing, 456th Bomb Group, flying B-24s. Notable annotations include that this was Mission No. 215 conducted from an altitude of between 23,600 and 24,700 feet and the attack took place between 1229 and 1231 hours. The image of the B-24 at the upper left indicates the direc... | | 11/29/2005 | 458 |
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 | Mission 535,536,540-542,545,547,569,572,576 & 579 of the 320th BG. All targets are in Germany, except the last mission. | | 11/29/2005 | 369 |
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 | One of the last mission flown by the 320th. | | 11/29/2005 | 252 |
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 | An old airfield near Cerignola and home of the 456th Heavy bombardment group in World War II. | | 11/28/2005 | 217 |
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 | Flak towers (German: Flakturm) were large AA gun blockhouses used by the Luftwaffe to prevent overflights of key areas in certain cities in World War II. They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of people and to coordinate air defence. With concrete walls up to 3.5m thick these towers were considered to be invulnerable to attack with the usual ordnance carried by Allied bombe... | | 11/23/2005 | 546 |
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 | The shallow wreck site of the Liberty ship , the Richard Montgomery.
Contained over seven thousand tons of explosives, the Richard Montgomery, grounded and sank on the 20th August 1944, off Sheerness Middle Sand in about 33ft of water at low tide.
Although part of the cargo was salvaged, 3,173 tonnes were left aboard; enough, that if the ship were to blow up, it would be the ... | | 11/22/2005 | 541 |
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