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 | Overlay showing Nagasaki, Japan before the atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945. |  | 12/18/2006 | 1,159 | 
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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 | 3,432 |
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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 | 2,528 |
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 | This bridge (actually opening on the photo), also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed units by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6 June 1944. It was given the permanent name of Pegasus Bridge in honour of the operation. This name derives from the shoulder emblem worn by t... |  | 11/05/2006 | 400 |
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 | On september 29th and 30th 1941 more than 100,000 jews, Romas and Sowiet soldiers were murdered by shooting in a gorge by the Nazis here in Babi Yar in Kiew as a revenge for bombings of german installations. They were blamed for it but actually it was the Soviet organisation NKVD who did it.
http://www.berdichev.org/babi_yar.htm
(warning: this site contains horrible photos) |  | 10/24/2006 | 1,577 |
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 | Das Krakauer Getto | | 10/24/2006 | 493 |
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 | Plaszow concentration camp - overlay. | | 10/23/2006 | 779 |
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 | The planning of a U-boat bunker in Bergen started already in late 1940 by Organization Todt, who also made a special group called "Einzatzgruppe wiking". They were set to coordinate the building of the U-boat bunker, as well as other bunkers along the coast. The construction of bunker "Bruno" started one year later. The bunker had 7 pens, including 3 dry-docks and 3 "we... | | 10/20/2006 | 943 |
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 | Equipped with a triple-barrelled gun turret from battleship “Gneisenau”, 3 * 28 cm SKC/34, range 38 000 m, ready in july 43. | | 10/20/2006 | 359 |
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 | A 'nice and huge' specialconstruction over two levels. Partly build in 'St' and partly in rock. Located on the cliffy shore northeast of Kristiansund Equipped with 4 * 53 cm torpedo tubes. | | 10/20/2006 | 317 |
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 | The new Godley Head battery was the largest defence work undertaken in the South Island since the building of Fort Jervois, some 54 years earlier. The design was a direct copy of those used at the Motutapu and Palmer Head batteries. The new Godley Head battery's primary purpose was counter bombardment with a secondary one of supporting the examination battery at Battery Point. Counter bombardme... | | 10/15/2006 | 293 |
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 | In early 1942 surveys were carried out with a view to establishing four fixed HAA batteries around Lyttelton Harbour. Quail Island was chosen as one of the sites.
As the threat of enemy attack receded only one HAA battery was built. This was on high ground above the port of Lyttelton.
Although the contract was allocated in November 1942, by August 1942 work had already begun. | 10/15/2006 | 394 |
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 | In 1935 the top of Wrights Hill in Karori, Wellington was chosen as a site for a 9.2" coastal defence battery. Although it was not as large as some overseas fortresses such as that on the Rock of Gibraltar, it was fairly extensive with 2,030 feet of tunnels linking magazines, gun pits, engine room, plotting rooms and more.(For a complete list see the Site Layout)
In March 1... | | 10/13/2006 | 163 |
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 | In 1942 Construction of defence works was at it's peak. Early that year the Japanese were still advancing in the pacific (although the tide was to turn against them before the year's end). In Wellington existing Coastal batteries were strengthened and new batteries constructed. This was to defend against the seaward threat. To defend against the airborne threat a ring of batteries was built equ... | | 10/13/2006 | 208 |
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 | South of the headquarters of M.A.A. 205 you' ll find M.K.B. Vineta. This battery is on the same place as a former Dutch coastal battery. Initially the guns were on open platforms, but with the Schartenbauprogramm of 1943, four 671SK were built. For the secondary fieldguns a 612 was used. The fire control-post of the former Dutch battery was kept into use for its original purpose.
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 | The 1./M.A.A. (Marine Artillerie Abteilung) 205 manned the bunkers built here, north of Hoek van Holland.
The complex consisted of
* one M 152 (Marine-Artilleriekommandostand),
* one R 621 (Gruppenunterstand) and
* three M 151 (Mannschaftsunterstand für 1/3/24).
The bunkers were interconnected by covered trenches. These trenches and the bunk... | | 10/01/2006 | 221 |
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 | Cemetery for 5328 US soldiers.
http://www.ww2sites.com/index.php?action=jump&page=beneuvillecondroz | | 10/01/2006 | 311 |
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 | The SS Auffanglager Breendonk was opened 1940 and until 1942 the prisoners were jews who wouldn't obey the anti jewish regulations. From 1942 it was used for resistance fighters and political prisoners.
http://www.ww2sites.com/index.php?action=jump&page=bewillebroek | | 09/29/2006 | 374 |
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 | Henri-Chapelle is one of three American War Cemeteries in Belgium. Here 7989 US soldiers are buried and 450 soldiers missing in action are remembered. All these soldiers were killed during the advance from France through Belgium to the Netherlands (September 1944) and during the Ardennes Offensive (December 1944-January 1945). | | 09/29/2006 | 258 |
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 | In 1931 work was started to build a position at Kornwerderzand at the Afsluitdijk. In 1934 the Stelling Kornwerderzand was put into use. It consisted of 17 casemates. The object of this position was to stop the advance of an enemy from the east (Germany). This was a success! During the first days of the German invasion in the Netherlands, several German attacks were repulsed. Finally the defend... | | 09/29/2006 | 288 |
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 | The biggest defence works in the Westwall were the so-called 'B-Werke'. 32 of them were built mainly along the German-French border. Work on the B-werke started in 1937 and the last ones were finished in 1939. They were built in Baustarke B1 neu (1,5 m thick roof and outer walls), which was the strongest Baustarke in 1937. The standard weaponry consisted of 2 Sechsschartentürme with each 2 MG-3... | | 09/29/2006 | 341 |
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 | The battery at Baskensburg covered the mouth of the Westerschelde. | | 09/29/2006 | 233 |
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 | The battery Von Kleist covered the western part of the Landfront and could also fire on the beaches north of Walcheren. | | 09/29/2006 | 265 |
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 | Batterie Nord was one of four AA batteries around Vlissingen. The remainings of this battery can be found in the so called Bunkerbos (Bunker wood) in Vlissingen' s district of West-Souburg. There were four Vf Fla 14 (Schwere Flakstellung ohne Bereitschaftsraum), two are still their, together with the foundations of a third Vf Fla 14. There is also an aggregate bunker, which was not built accord... | | 09/29/2006 | 233 |
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 | The Germans considered Vlissingen an important town because of the mouth of the Westerschelde that was the entrance to the port of Antwerp. Vlissingen got the status of Verteidigungsbereich.
Verteidigungsbereich Vlissingen consisted of coastal batteries and anti-aircraft batteries. At the northern edge of the town was a small airfield. At the inland a rather extensive Landfront protecte... |  | 09/29/2006 | 221 |
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