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 | A 'nice and huge' specialconstruction over two levels. Partly build in 'St' and partly in rock. Located on the cliffy shore northeast of Kristiansund Equipped with 4 * 53 cm torpedo tubes. |  | 10/20/2006 | 396 | 
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 | The new Godley Head battery was the largest defence work undertaken in the South Island since the building of Fort Jervois, some 54 years earlier. The design was a direct copy of those used at the Motutapu and Palmer Head batteries. The new Godley Head battery's primary purpose was counter bombardment with a secondary one of supporting the examination battery at Battery Point. Counter bombardme... |  | 10/15/2006 | 369 |
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 | In early 1942 surveys were carried out with a view to establishing four fixed HAA batteries around Lyttelton Harbour. Quail Island was chosen as one of the sites.
As the threat of enemy attack receded only one HAA battery was built. This was on high ground above the port of Lyttelton.
Although the contract was allocated in November 1942, by August 1942 work had already begun. | 10/15/2006 | 481 |
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 | In 1942 Construction of defence works was at it's peak. Early that year the Japanese were still advancing in the pacific (although the tide was to turn against them before the year's end). In Wellington existing Coastal batteries were strengthened and new batteries constructed. This was to defend against the seaward threat. To defend against the airborne threat a ring of batteries was built equ... | | 10/13/2006 | 257 |
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 | South of the headquarters of M.A.A. 205 you' ll find M.K.B. Vineta. This battery is on the same place as a former Dutch coastal battery. Initially the guns were on open platforms, but with the Schartenbauprogramm of 1943, four 671SK were built. For the secondary fieldguns a 612 was used. The fire control-post of the former Dutch battery was kept into use for its original purpose.
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 | The 1./M.A.A. (Marine Artillerie Abteilung) 205 manned the bunkers built here, north of Hoek van Holland.
The complex consisted of
* one M 152 (Marine-Artilleriekommandostand),
* one R 621 (Gruppenunterstand) and
* three M 151 (Mannschaftsunterstand für 1/3/24).
The bunkers were interconnected by covered trenches. These trenches and the bunk... | | 10/01/2006 | 299 |
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 | The approach drive at Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium leads to the memorial, a stone structure bearing on its façade a massive American eagle and other sculptures. Within are the chapel, three large wall maps composed of inlaid marbles, marble panels depicting combat and supply activities and other ornamental features. Along the outside of the memorial, 462 names are inscribe... | | 10/01/2006 | 400 |
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 | The SS Auffanglager Breendonk was opened 1940 and until 1942 the prisoners were jews who wouldn't obey the anti jewish regulations. From 1942 it was used for resistance fighters and political prisoners.
http://www.ww2sites.com/index.php?action=jump&page=bewillebroek | | 09/29/2006 | 684 |
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 | At the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium, covering 57 acres, rest 7,992 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives during the advance of the U.S. armed forces into Germany. Their headstones are arranged in gentle arcs sweeping across a broad green lawn that slopes gently downhill. A highway passes through the reservation. West of the highway an overlook affords a... | | 09/29/2006 | 338 |
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 | In 1931 work was started to build a position at Kornwerderzand at the Afsluitdijk. In 1934 the Stelling Kornwerderzand was put into use. It consisted of 17 casemates. The object of this position was to stop the advance of an enemy from the east (Germany). This was a success! During the first days of the German invasion in the Netherlands, several German attacks were repulsed. Finally the defend... | | 09/29/2006 | 380 |
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 | The biggest defence works in the Westwall were the so-called 'B-Werke'. 32 of them were built mainly along the German-French border. Work on the B-werke started in 1937 and the last ones were finished in 1939. They were built in Baustarke B1 neu (1,5 m thick roof and outer walls), which was the strongest Baustarke in 1937. The standard weaponry consisted of 2 Sechsschartentürme with each 2 MG-3... | | 09/29/2006 | 435 |
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 | The battery at Baskensburg covered the mouth of the Westerschelde. | | 09/29/2006 | 305 |
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 | The battery Von Kleist covered the western part of the Landfront and could also fire on the beaches north of Walcheren. | | 09/29/2006 | 337 |
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 | Batterie Nord was one of four AA batteries around Vlissingen. The remainings of this battery can be found in the so called Bunkerbos (Bunker wood) in Vlissingen' s district of West-Souburg. There were four Vf Fla 14 (Schwere Flakstellung ohne Bereitschaftsraum), two are still their, together with the foundations of a third Vf Fla 14. There is also an aggregate bunker, which was not built accord... | | 09/29/2006 | 311 |
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 | The Germans considered Vlissingen an important town because of the mouth of the Westerschelde that was the entrance to the port of Antwerp. Vlissingen got the status of Verteidigungsbereich.
Verteidigungsbereich Vlissingen consisted of coastal batteries and anti-aircraft batteries. At the northern edge of the town was a small airfield. At the inland a rather extensive Landfront protecte... |  | 09/29/2006 | 295 |
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 | May 27th. 1942 the Nazi-Reichsprotector Heydrich was assasinated by a bombin order of the Czech-British Operation Anthropoid on the way to his office. Hitler ordered Heydrichs replacement, Kurt Daluege, to find the assasinators in a rampage all over Czechoslowakia. Best known happened in Lidice on june 10th. when all men over 15 was put in a barn and the next day shot, women were sent to KZ Rav... | | 09/28/2006 | 494 |
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 | One of the AA batteries that protected the German port town Emden was near the hamlet of Nansun, at the Dollarddijk close to Holwierde. It was manned by the 2./M.Fl.A. 256. Three other batteries were at Delfzijl, Farmsum and Termunten.
From M.Fl.B. Nansun only a Fl 246 (Munitionsauffüllraum) and a M 383 (Einheitsmaschinenraum) remain. Sheep has confiscated both bunkers.
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 | To protect the German port town Emden, at the Dutch side of the Dollard the Germans built a few AA positions. This positions were at Nansun near Holwierde, Delfzijl and at the hamlet of Fiemel near Termunten. The latter, M.Fl.B. Termunten, was reinforced in 1944. It was the position of the 4./M.Fl.A 256. |  | 09/27/2006 | 472 |
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 | Zwolle used to be an important communicationscentre between the coast and Germany. It was also a potential centre of resistance. As such it was well defended with several roadblocks and MG-positions. | | 09/27/2006 | 354 |
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 | Along the coast of the North Sea, the Germans built several radar stations. On the island of Schiermonnikoog they built a radar installation of the Wassermann type. According to some sources, sabotage was the cause that an antenna was never installed, and therefore this Wasserman was never put into use. | | 09/27/2006 | 549 |
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 | In 1943 the Germans started to build a big bunker for the Luftwaffe at the Bornia Estate. The bunker got the codename Cäsar and type number L 487B. Early 1944 this bunker was completed, but because of a reorganisation within the Luftwaffe, the bunker was never put into use by the Germans.
Only when the war was finished, the bunker was put into use by the Dutch Royal Air Force. However, i... | | 09/27/2006 | 529 |
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 | Anti-tank barrier in the dunes near Julianadorp aan Zee. | | 09/27/2006 | 570 |
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 | In the middle of the village are four more bunkers: an 134 (Munitionsunterstand I), a 502 (Doppelgruppenunterstand), a 504 (PAK-Unterstellraum mit Gruppe) and a 621 (Gruppenunterstand). The 502 is behind some houses and can't be reached without trespassing through the gardens.
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 | East of Julianadorp, near the hamlet of Blauwe Keet, there are four bunkers and a small remainder of the anti-tank ditch. The bunkers are: a 134 (Munitionsunterstand I), a 621 (Gruppenunterstand), a 680 (Schartenstand für 7.5 cm PAK 40 ohne Nebenräume) and a 502 (Doppelgruppenunterstand). | | 09/27/2006 | 260 |
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 | From here the AA batteries were controlled. A conspicuous bunker is the Fl 250 (Flakgruppenkommandostand). This type of bunker has a tower. In France there are Fl 250' s with towers of 20 meters. The tower of the FL 250 at Den Helder is a bit lower: 6 meters. In Denmark there are even Fl 250 with no tower at all. The height of the tower, if any, depended on the terrain.
Apart from the Fl... | | 09/27/2006 | 339 |
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