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Items related to World War II (1939-1945) |
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 | 6 Bostons to Dieppe port and railway yards; none were lost.
Thx for the helping overlay from Captain Hornblower. |  | 10/20/2005 | 288 | 
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 | 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"-Class, 4850 ts.
7. Light Cruiser "Calypso"-Cla... |  | 10/20/2005 | 409 |
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 | 2/3 April 1942
40 Wellingtons and 10 Stirlings carried out successful bombing of the motor factory . 1 Wellington lost. |  | 10/20/2005 | 274 |
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 | You can see landingships for Operation Sealion, the invasion of England. | | 10/20/2005 | 427 |
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 | You can see some piers out of order and a ship bombed in the drydock. | | 10/19/2005 | 535 |
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 | A heavy bombed german airfield in Belgium. | | 10/19/2005 | 440 |
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 | 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 | 742 |
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 | 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 | 625 |
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 | 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.
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 | A Military Cemetary Near Soltau in Lower Saxony |  | 10/15/2005 | 323 |
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 | 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 | 1,042 |
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 | Mantua Causeway, Italy, 1944. This is thirty six 1,000 pound bombs from nine aircraft, a very good bomb pattern. | | 10/13/2005 | 329 |
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 | 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 | 709 |
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 | 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 | 947 |
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 | 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 | 382 |
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 | 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 | 346 |
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 | 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 | 341 |
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 | 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 | 863 |
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 | Here you can see the German Hannover/Ahlem Military War Cemetery. | | 10/08/2005 | 235 |
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 | 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 | 389 |
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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 | 1,162 |
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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 | 365 |
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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 | 3,663 |
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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 | 1,153 |
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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 | 999 |
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