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 | 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. |  | 03/06/2007 | 405 | 
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 | 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 ... |  | 03/05/2007 | 591 |
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 | 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... | | 03/04/2007 | 498 |
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 | 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... | | 02/16/2007 | 268 |
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 | 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. | | 02/14/2007 | 232 |
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 | During an attack on a unknown target in the Battle over Britain. | | 02/14/2007 | 352 |
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 | Picture taken by an attack of the german Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. |  | 02/14/2007 | 566 |
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 | 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... | | 02/13/2007 | 896 |
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 | The Knickebein was a navigation device developed from the Lorenz system to help German bombers locate their targets at night. |  | 02/13/2007 | 444 |
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 | Lots of research,lot`s of UK low resolution so some overlays are necessary. On-going research. Just a test really. | | 02/07/2007 | 570 |
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 | 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.... |  | 02/04/2007 | 846 |
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 | 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. | | 02/04/2007 | 392 |
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 | 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. | | 02/03/2007 | 707 |
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 | At this mole the Koenigsberg was sunk by british Skuas of the 800 and 803 squadron. | | 01/27/2007 | 612 |
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 | 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... | | 01/27/2007 | 326 |
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 | 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... | | 01/21/2007 | 623 |
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 | 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... | | 01/20/2007 | 1,576 |
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 | 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... |  | 01/08/2007 | 353 |
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 | 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. | | 11/18/2006 | 7,575 |
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 | Here you can find interesting places of WW2 in Germany (and other places in Europe). Google Earth makes finding them easy. | | 11/18/2006 | 2,788 |
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 | 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... | | 11/05/2006 | 489 |
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 | 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) | | 10/24/2006 | 2,044 |
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 | 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... | | 10/20/2006 | 1,342 |
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 | Equipped with a triple-barrelled gun turret from battleship “Gneisenau”, 3 * 28 cm SKC/34, range 38 000 m, ready in july 43. | | 10/20/2006 | 479 |
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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 | 398 |
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