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 | Attack on the Südbahnhof (southern central station) on February 19th 1945. The impacts are in the Verschubgelaende (area where trains are shifted, don't know English word) between Gudrunstrasse and Arsenal also in the housing area near Gudrunstrasse/Laxenburgerstrasse.
Only 14 of the 24 bombers dropped the bombs over the primary target, the leader dropped them over secondary targ... |  | 08/13/2005 | 358 | 
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 | Air raid against Graz, Austria, on February 13th 1945.
Impacts are visible near Central Station, Rebengasse, Keplerstrasse and Annenstrasse. | | 08/13/2005 | 294 |
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 | On December 25th 1944 the 461st Bombardment Group departured for an attack on a refinery in Czechoslovakia, but the group was late. Wels, Austria was the designated alternative target, but missed it.
The impacts are on open field in the northwest corner of the picture. | | 08/13/2005 | 201 |
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 | On December 11th 1944 several Bombardment Groups attacked the train station Matzleinsdorf before the 461st approached. Thick clouds of smoke are covering the 10. Bezirk.
Heavy flak fire caused severe damage on 14 of 24 bombers, the bombs of the 461st were dropped too short. |  | 08/13/2005 | 279 |
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 | On August 22nd 1944 the 461st Bombardment Group attacked the oil depot of Lobau.
The black smoke indicates direct hits with the 1,000lb-bombs. The 461st was attacked by 34 German fighters, 11 were shot down. 16 of the remaining 23 bombers were damaged by flak, another one was shot down later over Jugoslavia. |  | 08/13/2005 | 306 |
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 | Air raid of the 461st Bombardment Group against Korneuburg, Austria, on July 8th 1944.
The target was a refinery. 52% of the dropped bombs were within 1,000 ft of the targetpoint.
The river of the overlay doesn't match because the pic was made with a tilt and not vertically. I focussed on the streets of the city. | | 08/13/2005 | 221 |
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 | An aerial reconnaissance picture of the bombed area around Cologne Cathedral and the Central Station during WWII. | | 08/13/2005 | 871 |
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 | An aerial reconnaissance picture made by USAF during WWII.
This picture shows the heavy damage caused by air-raids in 1944 and 1945. About 87% of the city was destroyed.
The left of the two bridges in the north of the pic is a railroad-bridge crossing the River Mosel, the right one is the Balduin bridge, the one of the oldest river-crossing-site of Koblenz.
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 | A reconnaissance picture of the Auschwitz-Birkenau-Comlex (concentration camp) from June 26th 1944.
Auschwitz is the name loosely used to identify three main Nazi German concentration camps and 45-50 sub-camps. The name is derived from the Germanized form of the nearby Polish town of Oświęcim.
The three main camps were:
- Auschwitz I, the origina... |  | 08/11/2005 | 5,680 |
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 | WWII Flakbunker at Heiligengeistfeld Hamburg.
http://www.luftschutz-bunker.de/images/bunker/hamburg/heiligengeistfeld/heiligengeistfeld.htm |  | 08/10/2005 | 861 |
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 | An aerial reconnassaince picture of the Pegasus bridge (northwest corner) made during the Battle of Normandy.
Pegasus was the name given to a bridge over the Caen canal, near the town of Ouistreham. The bridge was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6th June 1944. It was given the perma... | | 08/10/2005 | 764 |
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 | A map of the operations of the V Corps (Commander Maj. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow) during D-Day. |  | 08/10/2005 | 1,501 |
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 | An aerial reconnaissance picture of Juno Beach made during D-Day over Courseulles-sur-Mer.
Juno was the second most heavily defended of the five landing sites chosen, after the more famous Omaha Beach. General Richter was in charge of the 716th Division guarding the beach, with 11 heavy batteries of 155 mm guns and 9 medium batteries of 75 mm guns at his disposal. Additionally, p... |  | 08/10/2005 | 1,012 |
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 | Another aerial reconnaissance picture of Gold Beach made during D-Day. | | 08/10/2005 | 727 |
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 | An aerial reconnaissance picture of Gold Beach during D-Day.
Gold Beach was the Allied codename for the centre invasion beach during the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. It lay between Omaha Beach and Juno Beach, was 8km wide and divided into four sectors. From West to East they were How, Item, Jig, and King.
The grim task of invading Gold Be... | | 08/10/2005 | 832 |
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 | An aerial reconnaissance picture of Dieppe, France, from June 30th 1942, made from an altitude of 25,000 ft.
On August 19, 1942, during the Second World War, it was the site of the Dieppe Raid, a bloody landing by Allied soldiers, mainly Canadian. | | 08/10/2005 | 452 |
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 | A reconnaissance picture of the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen during "Operation Rheinuebung" in Kalvanes Bay. The picture was made by Lieutenant Michael Suckling (RAF) on 21st May 1941 at 13:15 from an altitude of 26,200 ft. | | 08/10/2005 | 730 |
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 | A reconnaissance picture of the German battleship Bismarck during "Operation Rheinuebung" in the Grimstadfjord. The picture was made by Lieutenant Michael Suckling (RAF) in his Spitfire on May 21st 1941 at 13:15 from an altitude of 26,200 ft. | | 08/10/2005 | 1,247 |
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 | A reconnaissance picture of the Mulberry Harbour made during WWII.
The Mulberry harbours were two prefabricated or artificial military harbours, which were carried across the English Channel from Britain with the invading army and assembled off the coast of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion of France.
The remains of Mulberry 'B' can still be seen off the Normandy coast at Ar... | | 08/08/2005 | 719 |
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 | A reconnaissance picture of the Olympia-Stadion (Olympic stadium) made during WWII.
The German Stadium was built between 1912 and 1913 within the boundaries of the horse racing track at Charlottenburg near the Grunewald Forest. At the time, its capacity of 40,000 made it the largest sports stadium in the world, intended to be the main stadium for the 1916 Summer Olympics, which had been ... | | 08/08/2005 | 1,355 |
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 | This is a collection of most of the airfields used by the Royal Airforce defending Great Britain in the Battle of Britain in WWII.
Some airfields may torn down, I wasn't able to find all of them. Some positions of airfields are uncertain as there is no longer an airfield but due to size and shape it might be a former airfield.
Corrections, suggestions and comments are welcome. | | 08/08/2005 | 977 |
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 | Placemark for the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Wikipedia link).
Includes two overlays, one with a map of the Ghetto during World War II, the other a 1888 street map of Warsaw. | | 08/06/2005 | 987 |
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 | Historical submarine building site in WWII.
Huge wharf, 426m long (the ceiling is made of up to 7m of concrete) never finished, but 10-12 thousand prisoners were forced to work there, and at least 4,000 died while building the wharf. Today it is used as a storage place for the German "Bundeswehr".
German link | | 08/06/2005 | 667 |
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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.
By June 9, just 3 days after D-Day, two harbours codenamed Mulberry 'A' and 'B' were constructed at Omaha Beach and Arromanches, respectively. However, a large storm on June 19 destroyed the American harbour at Omaha, leaving only the Br... | | 08/05/2005 | 716 |
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 | Here are the places from all battleships, which sunk in WWII by enemy action. | | 08/05/2005 | 1,413 |
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