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 | German attempts to camouflage parts of Hamburg, 1940 |  | 10/20/2005 | 657 | 
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 | Destroyed by the RAF. | | 10/20/2005 | 284 |
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 | The Kembs Dam. This was another No 617 Squadron special operation. The Kembs Dam on the Rhine, just north of Basle, held back a vast quantity of water and it was feared that the Germans would release this to flood the Rhine valley near Mulhouse, a few miles north, should the American and French troops in that area attempt an advance. The Squadron was asked to destroy the lock gates of the dam. ... |  | 10/20/2005 | 224 |
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 | You can see some piers out of order and a ship bombed in the drydock. |  | 10/19/2005 | 392 |
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 | A heavy bombed german airfield in Belgium. | | 10/19/2005 | 282 |
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 | 11/12 September 1944
Darmstadt: 226 Lancasters and 14 Mosquitos of No 5 Group. 12 Lancasters lost, 5.3 per cent of the Lancaster force. A previous No 5 Group attack in August had failed to harm Darmstadt but, in clear weather conditions, the group's marking methods produced an outstandingly accurate and concentrated raid on this almost intact city of 120,000 people. A fierce fire... |  | 10/19/2005 | 375 |
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 | The Merville Gun Battery was a gun battery in Normandy, France as part of the Nazi's Atlantic wall built to defend continental Europe from Allied invasion.
It was put out of action on D-Day in the Allied invasion of Normandy codenamed Operation Overlord. It was captured by D company of the Oxs and Bucks, a part of the British 6th Airborne Division. | | 10/19/2005 | 515 |
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 | The naval Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11 November 12 November 1940 during World War II. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft naval battle in history, flying a small number of aircraft from a single aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean and attacking the Italian fleet at Taranto. Britain won the battle in what pundits around the world saw as the end of the "big ... | | 10/19/2005 | 440 |
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 | Aerial reconnaissance photograph, probably taken by the British Royal Air Force circa February-June 1942. The arrow in upper right center marks the position of the battleship Scharnhorst, which was then under repair at the Kiel navy yard for damage received during the February 1942 "Channel Dash". | | 10/18/2005 | 428 |
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 | B-24Ds from 44th BG over Kiel , 14 May '43 | | 10/18/2005 | 332 |
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 | City Zvolen - west of the castle, across the street. Follow the foot path to the bottom of the hill and check out the camouflaged cars from an armoured military transport train used during the Slovak National Uprising.
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 | A Military Cemetary Near Soltau in Lower Saxony | | 10/15/2005 | 276 |
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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. | | 10/13/2005 | 904 |
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 | Bombing of an ammunition dump near Ingolstadt, Bavaria. This is a 3 sequence overlay with 2 top views and a side view of the explosion cloud. | | 10/13/2005 | 576 |
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 | Mantua Causeway, Italy, 1944. This is thirty six 1,000 pound bombs from nine aircraft, a very good bomb pattern. | | 10/13/2005 | 246 |
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 | n° 4 version
Correction of the JEATH Museum place.
Added all the bridges along the track.
Few minor changes.
3d models of Kwai brides available in 3d model post
version n°3(added the track of the wooden bridge)
Placemarks along the Thai-Burma Railway (Death railway) during WWII
*Camps of Prisoners
*Railway Stations
+ Some sites / Pictures (JEAHT Mus... | | 10/12/2005 | 431 |
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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. |  | 10/12/2005 | 817 |
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 | Operation Avalanche was the codename for the landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops.
The landings were carried out by the US Fifth Army, under American General Mark W. Clark. It comprised the U.S... |  | 10/10/2005 | 257 |
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 | The plans for the post-invasion battle had not been worked out in detail. Each Army was expected to advance towards its own objectives; boundaries between the two armies were fixed. In the first two days progress was excellent, capturing Vizzini in the west and Augusta in the east.
However resistance in the British sector then stiffened. Montgomery persuaded Alexander to shift th... |  | 10/09/2005 | 274 |
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 | The landings took place in extremely strong wind conditions, which made the landings difficult but also ensured the element of surprise. Landings were made on the southern and eastern coasts of the island, with the British forces in the East and the Americans towards the West.
Four airborne operations were carried out, landing during the night of the July 9-10 July, as part of th... | | 10/09/2005 | 249 |
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 | The scuttled French fleet at Toulon: aerial pictures. On November 28, 1942, the day after the scuttling and firing of the ships of the French fleet in Toulon harbor, photographs were taken by the Royal Air Force. Many of the vessels were still burning so that smoke and shadows obscure part of the scene. But the photographs show, besides the burning cruisers, ship after ship of the contre-torpil... | | 10/09/2005 | 669 |
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 | During World War II, Peenemünde hosted the Heeresversuchsanstalt, an extensive rocket development and test site established in 1937. Prior to that date the team headed by Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger had worked in Kummersdorf, south of Berlin. However, Kummersdorf proved too small for testing. Peenemünde, located on the coast, permitted the launching of rockets and their subsequent m... | | 10/08/2005 | 1,130 |
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 | Here you can see the German Hannover/Ahlem Military War Cemetery. | | 10/08/2005 | 183 |
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 | Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll (having a coastline of 19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu (2,300 statute miles or 3,700 km west) to Guam (1,510 miles or 2,430 km east).
On December 8, 1941 the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor (Wake being on the opposite side of the International Date Line), 16 Japane... | | 10/07/2005 | 303 |
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 | WWII City of Bergkamen after heavy bombing raid USAF. Picture made in February 1945. Berkamen (Northrhine-Westfalia) was one of the most destroyed small towns in Germany. Aim of the bombing raids were the coal mines and the Chemische Werke - today Schering AG | | 10/05/2005 | 596 |
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