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M.K.B. Vogelnest - M.K.B. Tirpitz near Oxby, Denmark

M.K.B. Vogelnest - M.K.B. Tirpitz near Oxby, Denmark

M.K.B. Vogelnest was also known as M.K.B. Tirpitz. This coastal battery did not belong to Stp.Gr. Blåvand. The battery was used to protect the coast of Esjbjerg. When the war ended, only two bunkers were partly completed. These two bunkers of type S 561 (Doppelturm für 38 cm) are worth a visit, especially as these are the only two of this type built. One bunker houses a museum.
Rating of 303/06/2007405Google Earth Logo
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Hanstholm - 38 cm naval coastal battery

Hanstholm - 38 cm naval coastal battery

he naval coastal battery "Hanstholm II" with its 38 cm guns was the heaviest battery in Denmark. During the war, the largest fortification of nothern Europe developed around it. Together with a sister batterie at Kristiansand in Norway, hostile ships should be hindered from entering the Baltic Sea. The distance between Kristansand and Hanstholm amounts to approximately 120 km. As the ...
No rating yet03/05/2007591Google Earth Logo
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Vigsoe bunkers

Vigsoe bunkers

These are the Vigso bunkers made by the Germans as part of the Atlantic Wall during WW2. They became known from the danish movie die Olsen Bande in Jütland / Olsenbanden i jylland (The Olsen Gang in Jutland made in 1971.

It was here in bunker 246/312-3 the gang was drilling in the walls when a bomb from WWII hanging in a transportation construction was moved on because of vibrati...
No rating yet03/04/2007498Google Earth Logo
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Aerial photo of Station 137 - Lavenham-Alpheton

Aerial photo of Station 137 - Lavenham-Alpheton

Home of the 487th Bomb Group (H) from 22. Sep. 1943 to 7. Nov. 1945.

The group flew both the B-24 Liberator and the B-17 Flying Fortress as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign and began combat in May 1944, bombing airfields in France in preparation for the invasion of Normandy; then pounded coastal defenses, road junctions, bridges and locomotives during th...
No rating yet02/16/2007268Google Earth Logo
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Harburg oil refinery attack, 7-8 March 1945

Harburg oil refinery attack, 7-8 March 1945

234 Lancasters and 7 Mosquitos of No 5 Group carried out an accurate attack on the oil refinery at Harburg. 14 Lancasters lost. No 189 Squadron, from Fulbeck, lost 4 of its 16 Lancasters on the raid. One local report states that a rubber factory was seriously damaged as well as the oil targets.
Rating of 002/14/2007232Google Earth Logo
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Dornier Do17Z over the Thames River in 1940

Dornier Do17Z over the Thames River in 1940

During an attack on a unknown target in the Battle over Britain.
No rating yet02/14/2007352Google Earth Logo
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Heinkel He111 over London 1940

Heinkel He111 over London 1940

Picture taken by an attack of the german Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.
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Massacre At Malmedy During the Battle of the Bulge

Massacre At Malmedy During the Battle of the Bulge

In the north the main armoured spearhead of the 6.SS Panzer-Armee, Kampfgruppe Peiper, consisting of 4,800 men and 600 vehicles under the command of Waffen-SS Colonel Jochen Peiper, pushed west into Belgium. At 0700 hrs December 17 they seized a U.S. fuel depot at Büllingen, where they paused to refuel before continuing westward. At 12:30 hrs, near the hamlet of Baugnez, on the height halfway b...
Rating of 302/13/2007896Google Earth Logo
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Knickebein (crooked leg) K12 near Loerrach, Germany

Knickebein (crooked leg) K12 near Loerrach, Germany

The Knickebein was a navigation device developed from the Lorenz system to help German bombers locate their targets at night.
Rating of 2.7502/13/2007444Google Earth Logo
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A few ww2 airfields

A few ww2 airfields

Lots of research,lot`s of UK low resolution so some overlays are necessary. On-going research. Just a test really.
No rating yet02/07/2007570Google Earth Logo
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La Pallice german U-Boat Bunker, France

La Pallice german U-Boat Bunker, France

From September 1940 was La Pallice the alternative base for the Italian Betasom submarines (the main base of operations being Bordeaux). The 3rd Flotilla took over the base on October 27, 1941.

In April 1941 the German Command decided to build also a bunker in La Pallice. The first two pens were finished in October 1941. The U-boat bunker was 195 m wide, 165 m long and 19m high....
Rating of 3.33333333302/04/2007846Google Earth Logo
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Donges Oil Refinery, 23-24 July 1944

Donges Oil Refinery, 23-24 July 1944

119 aircraft - 100 Halifaxes, 14 Lancasters, 5 Mosquitos - of Nos 6 and 8 Groups attacked an oil refinery and storage depot at Donges, near the mouth of the River Loire. This was the start of a new campaign against oil targets in the occupied Countries. The bombing took place in good visibility. The target was severely damaged and a tanker was hit and capsized. No aircraft lost.
No rating yet02/04/2007392Google Earth Logo
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Saint-Nazaire U-Boat Bunker

Saint-Nazaire U-Boat Bunker

Build between 1941 and 1942 by more than 4600 workers of Todt Organisation, U-boat base of St-Nazaire needed 313000 m3 of concrete.

This bunker could protect 20 U-boats in 14 pens.
No rating yet02/03/2007707Google Earth Logo
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Sinking of the Light Cruiser Koenigsberg 1940 in Bergen

Sinking of the Light Cruiser Koenigsberg 1940 in Bergen

At this mole the Koenigsberg was sunk by british Skuas of the 800 and 803 squadron.
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Ninth Fort northwest of Kaunas

Ninth Fort northwest of Kaunas

The Kovno Ghetto and Ninth Fort in Kaunas rank in infamy with such better-known killing complexes as Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. The Nazis reduced the Jewish population of Kaunas from 37000 to 2500 in the course of three years.
Built at the end of the 19th century, the fort was the ninth in a series of forts constructed by the Russians to defend the western border of their empire. During W...
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WILHELM GUSTLOFF - The greatest sea tragedy of all time January, 30th 1945

WILHELM GUSTLOFF - The greatest sea tragedy of all time January, 30th 1945

The Wilhelm Gustloff was a passenger ship built by the Blohm and Voss shipyards, and was named after the assassinated Nazi political activist, Wilhelm Gustloff. It was launched on May 5, 1937. On a mission to help evacuate Germans trapped by the Red Army in East Prussia, it was hit by three torpedoes from a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea on the night of January 30, 1945. The sinking remains...
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Bombing target near Holloman AFB from WWII

Bombing target near Holloman AFB from WWII

In early 1941, another interesting target was constructed southeast of Socorro. It was a scale model of the German battleship Bismarck, and was made of dirt with wooden logs for the gun turrets. This was built to train pilots from the Royal Air Force in identifying the famous battleship at night. However, the Bismarck was sunk in May 1941 — before the "adobe" Bismarck saw much use. It...
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Winkel Tower Collection

Winkel Tower Collection

The towers in this placemarker are called Winkelturm (winkel-tower) and they are named by their designer Leo Winkel (* 15. September 1885 in Köln; † März 1981 in Duisburg). The Winkelturm is a bunker and was patented in 1934, in 1936 the first tower was constructed. Altogether there were nearly 200 Winkeltürme of 5 different types built. The towers were intended mainly as protection for f...
Rating of 4.501/08/2007353Google Earth Logo

Sites of WW2

Sites of WW2

A lot of different WW2 landmarks all over Europe, easely found with Google Earth. See as they are now, and how they were around WW2.
Rating of 3.46153846111/18/20067,575Google Earth Logo
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WW2 military buildings Germany

WW2 military buildings Germany

Here you can find interesting places of WW2 in Germany (and other places in Europe). Google Earth makes finding them easy.
Rating of 2.611/18/20062,788Google Earth Logo

Pegasus Bridge opening

Pegasus Bridge opening

This bridge (actually opening on the photo), also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed units by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6 June 1944. It was given the permanent name of Pegasus Bridge in honour of the operation. This name derives from the shoulder emblem worn by t...
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Babi Yar - One of the worst massacres on jews by the Nazis

Babi Yar - One of the worst massacres on jews by the Nazis

On september 29th and 30th 1941 more than 100,000 jews, Romas and Sowiet soldiers were murdered by shooting in a gorge by the Nazis here in Babi Yar in Kiew as a revenge for bombings of german installations. They were blamed for it but actually it was the Soviet organisation NKVD who did it.

http://www.berdichev.org/babi_yar.htm
(warning: this site contains horrible photos)
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U-Boat Bunker BRUNO in Bergen

U-Boat Bunker BRUNO in Bergen

The planning of a U-boat bunker in Bergen started already in late 1940 by Organization Todt, who also made a special group called "Einzatzgruppe wiking". They were set to coordinate the building of the U-boat bunker, as well as other bunkers along the coast. The construction of bunker "Bruno" started one year later. The bunker had 7 pens, including 3 dry-docks and 3 "we...
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Naval Coast Battery M.K.B. 4.-507 Oerlandet

Naval Coast Battery M.K.B. 4.-507 Oerlandet

Equipped with a triple-barrelled gun turret from battleship “Gneisenau”, 3 * 28 cm SKC/34, range 38 000 m, ready in july 43.
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Torpedobatterie Nordlandet

Torpedobatterie Nordlandet

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.
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