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Items related to World War II (1939-1945) |
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 | In the area of the monumental battery Heerenduin the WN2000 Foundation has taken management of some of the bunkers. Two of these bunkers have been made into as exposition rooms.<br>
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During the war these bunkers served as living quarters (12 men and 2 officers) and they have four rooms each. At the front are the dayrooms (Tagesraum). This part of the bunker is made... |  | 08/29/2009 | 31 | 
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 | CRASH has been active in research in the so called Randstad Region (the area in western Netherlands comprising the three large cities Rotterdam, Den Haag and Amsterdam and their environment) since 1987 where it has its main operating area. In this region approximately 750 aircraft were downed during the Second World War. In these twenty years of its activities the foundation focuses mainly on ‘... | | 08/29/2009 | 31 |
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 | At Southwest of the of the village Wijk aan Zee is a German radar site located. <br>
A radar antennae of the type "Mammut" was mounted on the roof of a bunker type V143. 2 individual bunkers at south and north of the radar bunker are serving as housing of personal. <br>
The bunker at the north side is of the type: Marine M151 and the one at the south side of ... | | 08/29/2009 | 36 |
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 | In the Second World War, the Germans build a radar-base, named Gorilla, near Schoonrewoerd. The base had two radars of the type Würzburg-Riese.<br>
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Nowadays the socle of one of these radars is still present. Near the road, opposite of the socle are also some small brick buildings and a commando-bunker.<br>
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Address:Overheicop, Schoonr... | | 08/29/2009 | 43 |
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 | The Dutch group shelters, part of the New Dutch Water Line, were designed as a shelter by shelling and bombing, the trenches between the shelters gave not enough coverage. The principle was based on the fights in the First World War. <br>
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The group shelters were build in 1940. A number of these were not completed yet with the outbreak of the Second World War. The ... | | 08/29/2009 | 26 |
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 | The Dutch group shelters, part of the New Dutch Water Line, were designed as a shelter by shelling and bombing, the trenches between the shelters gave not enough coverage. The principle was based on the fights in the First World War. <br>
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The group shelters were build in 1940. A number of these were not completed yet with the outbreak of the Second World War. The ... | | 08/29/2009 | 20 |
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 | The Dutch group shelters, part of the New Dutch Water Line, were designed as a shelter by shelling and bombing, the trenches between the shelters gave not enough coverage. The principle was based on the fights in the First World War. <br>
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The group shelters were build in 1940. A number of these were not completed yet with the outbreak of the Second World War. The ... | | 08/29/2009 | 24 |
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 | The Dutch group shelters, part of the New Dutch Water Line, were designed as a shelter by shelling and bombing, the trenches between the shelters gave not enough coverage. The principle was based on the fights in the First World War.
The group shelters were build in 1940. A number of these were not completed yet with the outbreak of the Second World War. The build of these were ... | | 08/29/2009 | 25 |
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 | West of Wolgograd, former Stalingrad, is the German cemetery Rossoshka with around 50,000 fallen German soldiers from the Battle of Stalingrad or from POW camps.
The cemetery contains of the old trapez-shaped gravesite with 600 soldiers made by the German Wehrmacht during the battle of Stalingrad. To the right is the giant mass grave with names of 24,427 on the ring around it. Th... | | 08/29/2009 | 53 |
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 | File contains all major German cemeteries from World War 2 with link to each placemark from Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.
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 | File contains Commonwealth War Cemeteries from World War 2 with link to each cemetery in each placemark.
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 | File contains Commonwealth War Cemeteries and two town cemeteries From World War 2 with link to each cemetery in each placemark. | | 08/29/2009 | 35 |
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries from World War 2 with a link to it with infos from Commonwealth Wargraves Commision. | | 08/29/2009 | 38 |
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries with thousands of graves from World War 2 in France. Also some churchyards with graves of fallen soldiers are located. For each placemark there is a link with infos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Churchyards with a few graves aren't showed in this file but can be seen in the enclosed link in placemarks.
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries with thousands of graves from World War 2 in Belgium. Also some churchyards with graves of fallen soldiers are located. For each placemark there is a link with infos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Churchyards with a few graves aren't showed in this file but can be seen in the enclosed link in placemarks.
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 | After Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed in Mezzegra on april 28th. 1945 along with 16 fellow men, they were transported to Milan and dumped down on the road on Piazza Loreto. They were spitted and kicked and finally Mussolini, Petacci and 5 others were hanged up upside down at a the roof of a gas station. The rest were laying on the ground.
Mussolini being ha... | | 08/29/2009 | 55 |
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 | After Mussolinis execution by italian partisans and the public show up in Milano he was burried in Cimitero del Musocco in an anonymous gravesite.
But a few days later his body was exhumed by fascists and taken to the monastery Certosa di Pavia. 3½ month later the body was taken to the Cappucine Monastery in Cerro Maggiore where it remkained until 1957 when it was moved to his fi... | | 08/29/2009 | 23 |
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 | The grave-tomb of Benito Mussolini is located on the cemetery of Predappio, the village where he was born.
He is buried here since 1957.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7660 | | 08/29/2009 | 34 |
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 | A cross points to the location where Benito Mussolini was shot by Italian partizans, together with his lover Clara Petacci. They were executed on 28 April 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini | | 08/29/2009 | 318 |
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 | This bunker, for the most part constructed in the rocks, is part of the Alpine Wall (Vallo Alpino), a defence line constructed in the Italian Alpines by the fascist dictactor Benito Mussolini.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7035 | | 08/29/2009 | 78 |
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 | This camouflaged bunker is part of the Alpine Wall (Vallo Alpino), a defence line constructed in the Italian Alpines by the fascist dictactor Benito Mussolini. The armanant of strong point no. 9 composed of 4 machine guns.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7022 |  | 08/29/2009 | 318 |
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 | This bunker is part of the Alpine Wall (Vallo Alpino), a defence line constructed in the Italian Alpines by the fascist dictactor Benito Mussolini. The armanant of strong point no. 8 composed of 4 machine guns.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7021 | | 08/29/2009 | 32 |
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 | This bunker is part of the Alpine Wall (Vallo Alpino), a defence line constructed in the Italian Alpines by the fascist dictactor Benito Mussolini. The armanant of strong point no. 6 composed of 4 machine guns.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7020 | | 08/29/2009 | 29 |
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 | This bunker, for the most part constructed in the rocks, is part of the Alpine Wall (Vallo Alpino), a defence line constructed in the Italian Alpines by the fascist dictactor Benito Mussolini. The armanant of strong point no. 5 composed of 4 machine guns and 1 anti-tank gun.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7019 | | 08/29/2009 | 28 |
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 | This bunker, for the most part constructed in the rocks, is part of the Alpine Wall (Vallo Alpino), a defence line constructed in the Italian Alpines by the fascist dictactor Benito Mussolini. The armanant of strong point no. 2 composed of 3 machine guns.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7017 | | 08/29/2009 | 28 |
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