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 | The attacks on Eder-, Moehne- and Sorpe-dam from the british No. 617 Squadron.
Operation Chastise was the official name for the attacks on German dams on May 17, 1943 in World War II using a specially developed "bouncing bomb". The attack was carried out by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the Dam Busters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_C... |  | 10/05/2005 | 491 | 
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 | Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Midway Atoll is most famously known for the Battle of Midway in World War II. It consists of a ring-shaped barrier reef and several sand islets. The two significant pieces of land, Sand Island and Eastern Island, provide habitat for hundreds of thousands of seabirds. It is currently a wildlife reservation and is not publically open. |  | 10/01/2005 | 261 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. |  | 09/29/2005 | 1,020 |
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 | A Mulberry Harbour was a type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on a beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy. |  | 09/28/2005 | 282 |
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 | Here you can see a plan of Hitlers Bunker in Berlin. It shows all the rooms and the place where the bodies are burned. | | 09/26/2005 | 2,828 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 09/23/2005 | 1,040 |
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 | ·The coldest, snowiest weather “in memory” in the Ardennes Forest on the German/Belgium border.
·Over a million men, 500,000 Germans, 600,000 Americans (more than fought at Gettysburg) and 55,000 British.
·3 German armies, 10 corps, the equivalent of 29 divisions.
·3 American armies, 6 corps, the equivalent of 31 divisions.
·The equivalent of 3 British divisions ... | | 09/21/2005 | 974 |
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 | A series of air battles between Great Britain and Germany, fought over Britain from Aug. to Oct., 1940. As a prelude to a planned invasion of England, Germany attacked British coastal defenses, radar stations, and shipping. On Aug. 24 the attack was shifted inland to Royal Air Force installations and aircraft factories in an effort to gain control of the air over S England. Failing to destroy t... | | 09/21/2005 | 847 |
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 | Location of sunken subs around the world.
colored year of sinking
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 purple
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 09/21/2005 | 829 |
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 | Partially demolished Flak-towers located in a park in central Berlin, two corners are still remaining. The fortress is one of six Hitler sketched himself. Built by Italian and French workers in 1941-42, each complex could hold around 15,000 civilians.
Partially demolished by French forces in 1948-51, the debris is landscaped around the base of the towers, but not on the north side, beca... | | 09/20/2005 | 862 |
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 | Overlayed images of devastated lands of city of Hiroshima, taken right after the atomic bomb hit there and vapored 140,000+ lives instantly.
Images are sourced Geographical Survey Institute of Japan and others. The area has new high-res pictures released on 9/16/2005 so you can see the details of rebuilt city - except the center of downtown including symbolic Atomic Bomb Dome - a UNESCO ... | | 09/19/2005 | 2,317 |
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 | The German Resistance Memorial Center is located in the Bendler Block in Berlin’s Mitte district, at the historic site of the attempted coup of July 20, 1944. On July 20, 1952, on the initiative of relatives of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944, Eva Olbricht, widow of General Friedrich Olbricht, laid the cornerstone for a memorial in the courtyard of the Bendler Block.
Th... |  | 09/18/2005 | 507 |
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 | Barracks of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler in Berlin-Lichterfelde. After WW 2 used by US-Army and today used by a federal authority. | | 09/16/2005 | 822 |
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 | The first aerodrome that 150 and 142 occupied in Italy was Cerignola #3 at Torretta 8 miles from the Italian cathedral Town of Cerignola. It had first been surveyed as a possible airfield in October 1943. All of 205 Group's squadrons landed at Torretta after leaving the Kairouan/Oudna Area and then moved on to other fields leaving 150 and 142 Squadrons in residence between December 1943 and Feb... | | 09/13/2005 | 255 |
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 | Location of suken subs around the world.
New: colored year
1945 light green
1944 yellow
1943 red
1942 brown
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 09/12/2005 | 977 |
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 | April-May 1945. This map shows the army movements (US Army and Red Army) during the attack on Berlin. | | 09/08/2005 | 1,077 |
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 | Operation Deadlight was the code name for the scuttling of the unwanted German U-boats which the allies got their hands on after the end of World War Two (WWII). Most of these (if not all) operations took place from Lisahally, Northern Ireland or Loch Ryan, Scotland. About 121 German U-boats were scuttled during the fall and and winter of 1945-1946 out of Ireland. | | 09/07/2005 | 516 |
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 | Location of sinking around the world by enemy action.
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 08/29/2005 | 1,006 |
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 | overlay of the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp, where citizens of Japanese ancestry were forced to reside during WWII | | 08/28/2005 | 153 |
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 | The World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is situated on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach and the English Channel in Colleville-sur Mer, France.
It contains the graves of 9,387 American military Dead, most of whom gave their lives during the landings and ensuing operations of World War II. | | 08/23/2005 | 1,396 |
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 | Kongresshalle in Nuremberg is the second largest nazi building survived WWII. | | 08/23/2005 | 666 |
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 | The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the mountains of Bavaria.
Key to the identifications:
A - Hintereck area
B - Greenhouse building
C - SS Kaserne
D - Kindergarten and Modellhaus/Filmarchiv
E - Hotel Zum Türken
F - Platterhof complex
G - Hitler's Berghof
H - Gästehaus Hoher Göll
J - SS guard house | | 08/21/2005 | 2,272 |
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 | Aerial picture of the bomb raid against the Daimler-Benz tank factory in Berlin carried out by B17-bombers of the 774th Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group on March 24th 1945. | | 08/20/2005 | 912 |
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 | Lost positions of German u-boats during World War II.
Informations are from uboat.net. Thx. | | 08/19/2005 | 1,051 |
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 | Hitler's Berghof
The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in Obersalzberg, in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden. It was located lower down the same mountain as the Kehlsteinhaus, Eagle's Nest, which Hitler rarely visited due to his fear of heights.
Editors Note -
Its a bit fuzzy now, but hopefully as Google updates their imagrey will get a better view of it. | | 08/18/2005 | 1,022 |
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