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 | M.K.B. Zanddijk consisted of two ammunitionbunkers, a M 120 (Leitstand für eine 17 cm Batterie) and two M 219 (Stand für 15 cm SKC/28 in Drehhaube C/34). These two M 219 are the only two built in the Netherlands. The guns of these bunkers came from the battleship Gneisenau. This ship was in the dry dock at Kiel, when it received a direct hit during a bombardment.
Both M 219' s are still ... |  | 09/27/2006 | 295 | 
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 | M.K.B. Wijk was one of the coastal batteries of Festung Ijmuiden. There are still a M 473a (Firecontrolpost for 17cm battery) and four 671 (Artillery casemate). Unfortunately they are not accessible. | | 09/27/2006 | 297 |
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 | The anti-tank barriers (dragon teeth or Höckerhindernisse) belonged to the northern part of the Landfront of Stp.Gr. Schoorl. | | 09/25/2006 | 410 |
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 | This is a Regelbau R617 (Nachrichtenstand für Netzknotenpunkte), which was the HQ for the german army on Texel. |  | 09/24/2006 | 316 |
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 | The battery was declared Provincial Monument as one of the last examples of Dutch fortress construction and was restored in 1994.
The battery consist of a command post, 3 gun emplacemants, 3 ammunition and 2 crew bunker and 3 survey bunker.
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 | Camp Westerbork was a transit camp to the deathcamps in Poland. More than 100000 jews from the Netherlands came here. The most famous was Anne Frank and her family after they were betrayed in Amsterdam in 1944.
http://www.westerbork.nl/ | | 09/21/2006 | 1,255 |
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 | Kamp Vught was the only SS KZ camp in northwestern Europe and started 1942 untill it was liberated in october 1944.
To the south east you see the former SS barracks.
Ironically the site on the former KZ ground is the Vught penitentiary.
http://www.warmuseums.nl/gal/055gal.htm
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 | Here were more than 4000 russian soldiers from KZ Dachau executed between 1941 and 1945 and were against the Geneva Convention.
After the war it was used by the americans for executions, later the bavarian government took over and wanted to forget what happened here and 1966 the Soviet government made a protest note to the federal ministry of foreign affairs and finally 1997 the range be... | | 09/17/2006 | 792 |
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 | This house, 1834 meters above sea level, was built by
Martin Bormann in 1937-1938 as a gift for Hitlers
50th birthday. Adolf Hitler used it for receiving
guests, but stopped visiting it after a while. After
World War II it was not destroyed by the US troops
while all Hitlers other quarters on the Obersalzberg
were.
Now it is a restaurant. You can... | | 09/17/2006 | 1,308 |
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 | Old Bunker on the island of Texel in the Netherlands. | | 09/17/2006 | 333 |
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 | SecondWorldWar batterie in Scheveningen, Den Haag(holland)
http://www.bunkerpictures.nl/pictures/nederland/scheveningen/Bpt.210/bpt.210.html | | 09/14/2006 | 456 |
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 | SecondWorldWar batterie in Hoek van Holland
http://www.atlanticwall.polimi.it/museum/bunker/bunker_netherland.php?inventory_ID=137 | | 09/14/2006 | 273 |
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 | SecondWorldWar batterie and museum in Hoek van Holland
http://www.atlanticwall.polimi.it/museum/bunker/bunker_netherland.php?inventory_ID=136
http://www.atlantikwall-museum.nl/ | | 09/14/2006 | 245 |
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 | Second World War baterie in IJmuiden(holland)
http://www.atlanticwall.polimi.it/museum/bunker/bunker_netherland.php?inventory_ID=116# | | 09/14/2006 | 250 |
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 | Second World War baterie in Den Helder(holland)
http://www.atlanticwall.polimi.it/museum/bunker/bunker_netherland.php?inventory_ID=132 | | 09/14/2006 | 353 |
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 | These bunkers (Hochbunker) were designed by Leo Winkel, a german constructing engineer, and so the got the name Winkelturm. | | 09/06/2006 | 329 |
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 | Built 500 metres off the isle of Grain, Kent, UK.
Originally completed in 1855 and is similar in construction to other Martello towers that can be found around the Kent coast.
The tower was modified in 1910 with the addition of 4.7" quick fire guns to protect ships moored at Sheerness or Chatham from high speed torpedo boats.
The guns were removed in 19... | | 09/03/2006 | 423 |
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 | Hiroshima Peace Memorial, called Genbaku Dome, the Atomic Bomb Dome, or the A-Bomb Dome by the Japanese is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Hiroshima, Japan. It was established as such in 1996.
The building was originally designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel. It was completed in April 1915, and the new building was named the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition (H... | | 08/31/2006 | 298 |
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 | M.K.B. Oldenburg was one of the first German batteries along the Atlantic Wall. That' s probably why you find few Regelbau bunkers here. The artillery towers, Turm Ost and Turm West have a different shape and size. They were equiped with SK L/50 guns, which were originally Russian. The range of the guns was 28 kilometres.
Apart from both artillery towers there are a 621 (Gruppen... | | 08/24/2006 | 451 |
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 | This is the real place of the sunk Admiral Graf Spee , today marked with a floating mark, there is yet a small part of the tower visible from the coast, when I was young the RADAR tower was there ,today was recovered and exposed in a nautical museum.
In 2005 the big bronze eagle with a swastika symbol of the front of the ship also was raised. see links in the KMZ |  | 08/11/2006 | 1,307 |
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 | Operation Hailstone was a massive naval air and surface attack launched on 17 February and 18 February 1944, during World War II by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Caroline Islands, a pre-war Japanese territory. Truk was a major Japanese logistical base as well as the operating "home" base for the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet. T... | | 08/11/2006 | 814 |
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 | Japan started the war with 63 ocean-going submarines (i.e., not including midgets), and completed 111 during the war, for a total of 174. However, three-quarters of these (128 boats) were lost during the conflict, a proportion of loss similar that experienced by Germany's U-Boats. Most of the surviving boats were either dedicated to training roles or were recently completed and never saw combat... | | 08/10/2006 | 734 |
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 | After the 1943 occupation, the Germans transformed the old rice-husking factory in a concentration camp: here many Jews, Slovenian partisans, Croatians, and Italian anti-Fascists were executed. (Trieste was the only Italian city to have a Nazi concentration camp.) In it, the cells of torture are still visible, but the crematory was dynamited by the Nazis (April 30 1945) | | 08/04/2006 | 1,841 |
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 | At a time when more and more flashy, high-tech discoveries and salvage of long-lost undersea wrecks occur, this submerged cultural resource study of the Arizona Memorial is a refreshing change. The combined experience of the National Park Service's Submerged Cultural Resources Unit and the Navy's Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One is remarkable, they are as expert at their business as can be fo... | | 08/04/2006 | 863 |
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 | Wanstone farm battery consisted of four magazines and two 15" ex naval guns called Jane and Clem. Jane was named after the young lady in the strip cartoon in the Daily Mirror, and Clem was probably named after Winston Churchill's wife, Clementine.
Along with the guns were two twin magazines to supply Clem and Jane; ammunition was passed to the guns via a self propelled trol... | | 08/03/2006 | 400 |
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