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Le Culot, Belgium 1944 A heavy bombed german airfield in Belgium.		10/19/2005	431

Battery Merville, France 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	739

Battle of Taranto, 11th November 1940 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	617

Armoured Train (1944 Slovak National Uprising) 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.		10/17/2005	389

Military Cemetary Near Soltau A Military Cemetary Near Soltau in Lower Saxony		10/15/2005	322

WWII German submarines U-400 to U-451 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	1,038

Mantua Causeway, Italy, 1944 Mantua Causeway, Italy, 1944. This is thirty six 1,000 pound bombs from nine aircraft, a very good bomb pattern.		10/13/2005	327

Death railway V4 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	691

WWII German submarines U-451 to U-500 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	943

Naples-Foggia - Fifth Army Landings, 9 - 13 September 1943 (OL) 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	379

Sicily - The Fight for Sicily, 12 July - 17 August 1943 (OL) 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	344

Sicily - Assault on Sicily, 10 July 1943 (OL) 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	339

Toulon November 1942, France 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	851

English War Cemetery Here you can see the German Hannover/Ahlem Military War Cemetery.		10/08/2005	233

Wake Island, North Pacific Ocean 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	385

Midway Atoll 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	326

WWII German submarines U-351 to U-400 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	1,157

Mulberry Harbour B, Arromanches 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	363

Hitlers Bunker (Fuehrer-Bunker) , Berlin 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	3,652

WWII German submarines U-301 to U-350 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	1,148

WWII German submarines U-251 to U-300 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	966

Air defence tower, Berlin, Germany Partially demolished Flak-tower 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, becau...		09/20/2005	1,058

German Army High Command in W W II 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	600

Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler Barracks Berlin-Lichterfelde 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	1,037

WWII German submarines U-201 to U-250 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	1,106