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320th BG December 1943 Mission 107,108,110-114,116-122 of the 320th BG. The targets are all on the mainland of Italy and France.		11/21/2005	553

320th BG November 1943 Mission 99,100,102,103,105 & 106 of the 320th BG. The targets are all on the mainland of Italy and France.		11/17/2005	284

320th BG October 1943 Mission 89,91,93-96 & 98 of the 320th BG. The targets are all on the mainland of Italy.		11/17/2005	424

camp des loges the "camp des loges" was the place of the general staff of the american army in europe after the second world war.		11/16/2005	258

461st BG, May 1944 Second month of operations for this Bombardement Group. Strike pictures from Austria, Italy, France, Romania.		11/13/2005	352

Strike photos of the 100th Bomb Group, 1943 - 1945 100th Bomb Group 13th Combat Wing 3rd Air Division 8th AF		11/06/2005	748

San Giovanni Field? Possible location of the 454th and 455th Bomb Group base during WWII.		11/05/2005	280

French Maginot line 1940 Maginot line forts and bunkers implementation sector by sector (exception for Sarre sector still incomplete). All names are in French. Updated: 08.24.06 Updated: 08.03.06 Updated: 20.04.06 Updated: 22.08.06 Updated: 05.09.06 Updated: 12.10.06 This is a fully reorganized file to allow permanent external update without reloading the KMZ each time.		10/28/2005	5,118

461st BG, April 1944 First month of operations for this Bombardement Group. Only 4 targets in Italy, Austria, Romania and France with good strike pictures.		10/26/2005	396

Renault Factory strike, 3-4 March 1942 The Renault factory, in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt just west of the centre of Paris, was making an estimated 18,000 lorries a year for the German forces. 235 aircraft - 89 Wellingtons, 48 Hampdens, 29 Stirlings, 26 Manchesters, 23 Whitleys, 20 Halifaxes - were dispatched in 3 waves, the crews of the leading wave being selected for their experience. The plan called for the massed use of fl...		10/26/2005	388

Amstetten bomb strike, 20 March 1945 Mission: #432 Target type: marshalling yard The main target of the 376th BG for the day was St. Valentin, Austria Tank Works. The secondary target was St. Polten, Austria, Marshalling Yard. Of all the bombs dropped, 34% of the bombs from the 512th, 513th, and the 514th were within 1,000 feet of the target at Amstetten. The 515th hit St. Polten. Of the bombs ...		10/26/2005	327

Graz bomb strike, 19 February 1945 Mission: #412 Target type: marshalling yard The main target was hit with poor results. One squadron bombed Fiume, Italy, Ship Yards (secondary target), also with poor results.		10/26/2005	266

Wien bomb strike, 22 March 1945 Mission: #434<br /> Target type: ordnance depot Forty aircraft of the 376th BG, loaded with 38 tons of fragmentation bombs and 35 tons of hundred pound bombs, covered the entire area completely.		10/26/2005	367

USAAF Wiener-Neustadt, 1944 Bomb strike photo of 10 May 1944 mission to Wiener-Neustadt, Austria (taken from 23,500 ft. by A/C # 42-31808)		10/25/2005	381

The Battle of Alamein, Egypt (Overlay) The Battle of Alamein, or more correctly the Second Battle of El Alamein, marked a significant turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The battle lasted from October 23 to November 3, 1942. Following the First Battle of El Alamein, which had stalled the Axis advance, General Bernard Montgomery took command of the British Commonwealth's Eighth Army from Claude Auchinleck in...		10/25/2005	1,430

WWII German submarines U-501 to U-550 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.		10/25/2005	1,269

Mimoyecques V-Weapon Site, 1944 Date: 3-26-44, Aircraft: B-17G #42-40017 (MS-W) "Assend Charlie" 535th BS, Altitude: 22,200 Target: Mimoyecques, France "Believed to be a construction works for one of Germany's secret weapons". Probably the V3 giant rocket assisted howitzer at Fortress de Mimoyecques		10/20/2005	693

RAF bombing Morlaix, 1943 Morlaix Viaduct, 29 January 1943 12 Bostons bombed a railway viaduct at Morlaix and 2 of 12 Venturas dispatched bombed a steelworks at Ijmuiden. 1 Boston lost.		10/20/2005	308

RAF bombing of Cherbourg September 1942 12 Bostons of 107 Squadron bombed the whaling factory ship Solglint in Cherbourg harbour; the ship was set on fire and gutted. No Bostons lost.		10/20/2005	277

RAF bombing of the Gnome-Rhone factory, Paris 29/30 May 1942 77 aircraft - 31 Wellingtons, 20 Halifaxes, 14 Lancasters, 9 Stirlings, 3 Hampdens - to the Gnome & Rhone factory, 4 Wellingtons and 1 Halifax lost. Later photographic cover showed little or no damage to the factory, A local report says that 38 houses were destroyed and 49 damaged, with 34 French people being killed and 167 injured.		10/20/2005	249

Dieppe, 8 May 1942 6 Bostons to Dieppe port and railway yards; none were lost. Thx for the helping overlay from Captain Hornblower.		10/20/2005	286

Naval Harbour Chatham 1939 1. 16 Destroyer, 1100 -1300 ts. 1a. Destroyer "Broke"-Class, 1480 ts. 2. Minesweeper, 830 ts. 2a. Minesweeper, 710 ts. 3. Heavy cruiser "York", 175 m long, 17,4 m beam, 8250 ts. 4. Guardboat "Kingsfisher"-Class, 510 - 530 ts. 5. Light Cruiser "Emerald", 7500 ts. 6. Light Cruiser "D"-Clas...		10/20/2005	406

Paris-Poissy 1942 2/3 April 1942 40 Wellingtons and 10 Stirlings carried out successful bombing of the motor factory . 1 Wellington lost.		10/20/2005	272

Dunkerque, 1940 You can see landingships for Operation Sealion, the invasion of England.		10/20/2005	424

RAF bombing Brest, France 1944 You can see some piers out of order and a ship bombed in the drydock.		10/19/2005	526