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 | The battery comprises three of these guns in single-gun mounts in open emplacements (one Vickers Ltd and two Vickers-Armstrong 1926 models); two were brought from Campelo Alto (Galicia) and their emplacement was completed in October 1941. During the proof firing, the second gun was destroyed by a premature explosion. Two more guns were brought from Favarix battery (Menorca) and were ready in Ja... |  | 04/03/2007 | 239 | 
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 | What once was the defensive battery of La Coruña and one of the three that defended the river of Betanzos and Ares has been turned into an impressive green area with plenty of vestiges of its past. In the park you can see two batterys (381/45mm Vickers), several bunkers, several flak positions and sealed tunnels. | | 03/29/2007 | 239 |
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 | On 20.05.1999 a huge British bomb from WW2 was found at the university of Koblenz during excavations for a new building.
On 24.05. the almost 2.000 kg heavy explosive ordnance was defused. An area of 1,8 km around the place of the bomb was evacuated (including two hospitals) - about 15.000 "Kowelenzer" (nickname for the people in Koblenz) had to leave this safety area for four... |  | 03/26/2007 | 608 |
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 | R.A.F. reconnaissance photo of Burton Bradstock and Freshwater Bay taken on 7th. June, 1942. | | 03/21/2007 | 200 |
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 | Frøslev Prison Camp (Danish: Frøslevlejren; German: Polizeigefangenenlager Frøslev) was an internment camp in German-occupied Denmark during World War II.
In order to avoid deportation of Danes to German concentration camps, Danish authorities suggested, in January 1944, that an internment camp be created in Denmark. The German occupation authorities consented, and the camp was e... | | 03/12/2007 | 358 |
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 | The battery site is very impressive and conspicuous as it partly lies on the beach due to coastal erosion. The way the bunkers lie fully visible on the beach gives the visitor a good impression of the layout of the original battery site. The battery stretches ca. 600 m along the coast. The original depth of the battery was ca. 200 m. Due to a coastal erosion of ca. 50 m since the war, the bunke... | | 03/07/2007 | 709 |
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 | On April 1st 1945 15:10 on position 43184012* Sergeant Snodgrass of the 67th Armored Regiment and parts of Task Force Kane of the 3rd Armored Division met on open field in Lippstadt between the Westernkötter Strasse and Böckenförder Strasse - the Ruhr pocket is closed.
Ca. 430,000 soldiers of the Heeresgruppe B under command of Field Marshall Walter Model are trapped. 20 days la... | | 03/07/2007 | 244 |
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 | M.K.B. Vogelnest was also known as M.K.B. Tirpitz. This coastal battery did not belong to Stp.Gr. Blåvand. The battery was used to protect the coast of Esjbjerg. When the war ended, only two bunkers were partly completed. These two bunkers of type S 561 (Doppelturm für 38 cm) are worth a visit, especially as these are the only two of this type built. One bunker houses a museum. |  | 03/06/2007 | 288 |
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 | he naval coastal battery "Hanstholm II" with its 38 cm guns was the heaviest battery in Denmark. During the war, the largest fortification of nothern Europe developed around it. Together with a sister batterie at Kristiansand in Norway, hostile ships should be hindered from entering the Baltic Sea. The distance between Kristansand and Hanstholm amounts to approximately 120 km. As the ... | | 03/05/2007 | 323 |
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 | In the north the main armoured spearhead of the 6.SS Panzer-Armee, Kampfgruppe Peiper, consisting of 4,800 men and 600 vehicles under the command of Waffen-SS Colonel Jochen Peiper, pushed west into Belgium. At 0700 hrs December 17 they seized a U.S. fuel depot at Büllingen, where they paused to refuel before continuing westward. At 12:30 hrs, near the hamlet of Baugnez, on the height halfway b... | | 02/13/2007 | 654 |
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 | The Knickebein was a navigation device developed from the Lorenz system to help German bombers locate their targets at night. | | 02/13/2007 | 324 |
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 | Lots of research,lot`s of UK low resolution so some overlays are necessary. On-going research. Just a test really. | | 02/07/2007 | 410 |
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 | From September 1940 was La Pallice the alternative base for the Italian Betasom submarines (the main base of operations being Bordeaux). The 3rd Flotilla took over the base on October 27, 1941.
In April 1941 the German Command decided to build also a bunker in La Pallice. The first two pens were finished in October 1941. The U-boat bunker was 195 m wide, 165 m long and 19m high.... |  | 02/04/2007 | 554 |
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 | 119 aircraft - 100 Halifaxes, 14 Lancasters, 5 Mosquitos - of Nos 6 and 8 Groups attacked an oil refinery and storage depot at Donges, near the mouth of the River Loire. This was the start of a new campaign against oil targets in the occupied Countries. The bombing took place in good visibility. The target was severely damaged and a tanker was hit and capsized. No aircraft lost. | | 02/04/2007 | 287 |
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 | Build between 1941 and 1942 by more than 4600 workers of Todt Organisation, U-boat base of St-Nazaire needed 313000 m3 of concrete.
This bunker could protect 20 U-boats in 14 pens. | | 02/03/2007 | 431 |
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 | Aerial view taken from the USAAF on 4.4.45. | | 02/03/2007 | 185 |
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 | At this mole the Koenigsberg was sunk by british Skuas of the 800 and 803 squadron. | | 01/27/2007 | 365 |
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 | The Kovno Ghetto and Ninth Fort in Kaunas rank in infamy with such better-known killing complexes as Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. The Nazis reduced the Jewish population of Kaunas from 37000 to 2500 in the course of three years.
Built at the end of the 19th century, the fort was the ninth in a series of forts constructed by the Russians to defend the western border of their empire. During W... |  | 01/27/2007 | 205 |
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 | The Wilhelm Gustloff was a passenger ship built by the Blohm and Voss shipyards, and was named after the assassinated Nazi political activist, Wilhelm Gustloff. It was launched on May 5, 1937. On a mission to help evacuate Germans trapped by the Red Army in East Prussia, it was hit by three torpedoes from a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea on the night of January 30, 1945. The sinking remains... | | 01/21/2007 | 386 |
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 | In early 1941, another interesting target was constructed southeast of Socorro. It was a scale model of the German battleship Bismarck, and was made of dirt with wooden logs for the gun turrets. This was built to train pilots from the Royal Air Force in identifying the famous battleship at night. However, the Bismarck was sunk in May 1941 — before the "adobe" Bismarck saw much use. It... | | 01/20/2007 | 1,010 |
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 | The towers in this placemarker are called Winkelturm (winkel-tower) and they are named by their designer Leo Winkel (* 15. September 1885 in Köln; † März 1981 in Duisburg). The Winkelturm is a bunker and was patented in 1934, in 1936 the first tower was constructed. Altogether there were nearly 200 Winkeltürme of 5 different types built. The towers were intended mainly as protection for f... |  | 01/08/2007 | 277 |
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 | Overlay showing ground zero after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945. | | 12/18/2006 | 1,837 |
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 | Overlay showing Nagasaki, Japan before the atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945. | | 12/18/2006 | 1,139 |
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 | A lot of different WW2 landmarks all over Europe, easely found with Google Earth. See as they are now, and how they were around WW2. | | 11/18/2006 | 3,267 |
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 | Here you can find interesting places of WW2 in Germany (and other places in Europe). Google Earth makes finding them easy. | | 11/18/2006 | 2,494 |
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