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WWII German submarines U-551 to U-600 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.		12/02/2005	1,036

The Cabinet War Rooms The Cabinet War Rooms - Nerve Centre Of Britains War Effort During The Second World War And Home Of The Churchill Museum.		12/01/2005	205

Vienna Flak-Towers Flak towers (German: Flakturm) were large AA gun blockhouses used by the Luftwaffe to prevent overflights of key areas in certain cities in World War II. They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of people and to coordinate air defence. With concrete walls up to 3.5m thick these towers were considered to be invulnerable to attack with the usual ordnance carried by Allied bombe...		11/23/2005	659

SS Richard Montgomery The shallow wreck site of the Liberty ship , the Richard Montgomery. Contained over seven thousand tons of explosives, the Richard Montgomery, grounded and sank on the 20th August 1944, off Sheerness Middle Sand in about 33ft of water at low tide. Although part of the cargo was salvaged, 3,173 tonnes were left aboard; enough, that if the ship were to blow up, it would be the ...		11/22/2005	704

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	555

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	286

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	428

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	260

461st BG, May 1944 Second month of operations for this Bombardement Group. Strike pictures from Austria, Italy, France, Romania.		11/13/2005	356

Strike photos of the 100th Bomb Group, 1943 - 1945 100th Bomb Group 13th Combat Wing 3rd Air Division 8th AF		11/06/2005	753

San Giovanni Field? Possible location of the 454th and 455th Bomb Group base during WWII.		11/05/2005	282

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	5,153

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	399

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	391

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	330

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	268

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	369

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	382

Misburg Refinery, 15-16 March 1945 257 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos of Nos 1 and 8 Groups attacked the Deurag refinery at Misburg, on the outskirts of Hannover. Visibility was good and some fires were started but the main weight of the raid fell south of the target. 4 Lancasters lost.		10/25/2005	300

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	1,434

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	1,278

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	697

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	312

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	282

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	251