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 | This middle weight 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. 1 composed of 2 machine guns and 1 anti-tank gun.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7016 |  | 08/29/2009 | 29 | 
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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.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7014 | | 08/29/2009 | 38 |
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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.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7015 | | 08/29/2009 | 30 |
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 | Also called "Fortificazione Opera 10"
This unique fortress, 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. 10 composed of 6 howitzers of the type 100/17 and 5 machine guns.
http://www.ww2muse... | | 08/29/2009 | 54 |
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 | SE of Trondheim lays the German cemetery Havstein. 2,992 soldiers from WW2 were buried here. | | 08/29/2009 | 26 |
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 | 3,112 German soldiers who fell during WW2 in southern Norway were buried here if they weren't braught back to Germany.
Also 96 from WW1 are buried here.
The cemetery is located in the Oslo suburb Alfaset. | | 08/29/2009 | 25 |
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 | On 29 July 1883, Benito Mussolini was born in this house located in Predappio.
Address:Via Varano Costa Nuova, Predappio
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 | The Sandweiler German war cemetery is a World War II cemetery in Sandweiler, in southern Luxembourg. It contains the graves of 10,913 German servicemen from the Battle of the Bulge in winter 1944 and spring 1945. Of these, 5,599 were buried by the American war graves service during the war; American casualties were buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial about 1.5 kilometres (0.... | | 08/29/2009 | 25 |
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 | 31,598 are buried here. All German soldiers who fell during WW2 in the Netherlands were buried here if they weren't braught back to Germany. | | 08/29/2009 | 31 |
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 | This house was build in 1890. Rachele Mussolini bought it in 1934.
For years the house was used as summer-residence of the Mussolini family. Benito Mussolini invited many well-known-people here.
Nowadays the house is used by the city of Riccione for exhibitions and other events. | | 08/29/2009 | 35 |
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 | This Italian tank barrier 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/7077 | | 08/29/2009 | 30 |
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 | On Copenhagen West Cemetery (Vestre Kirkegaard), the largest cemetery in Copenhagen are 4,643 soldiers and 5,344 German refugees from German occupied european areas buried.
The German cemetery is found in the southwestern part in two places. | | 08/29/2009 | 30 |
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 | In the city of Düsseldorf, a WWII air-raid shelter (in German: Hochbunker or Luftschutzbunker).
After the war this bunker was converted as a church.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJsDiDBSdc |  | 08/29/2009 | 37 |
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 | Near the Jean Dolidierweg in the Vierlanden area near the hamlet of Neuengamme, not too far from Hamburg, you will find the remnants of the concentration camp Neuengamme. Today only a few buildings and some factory plants remain of what was once one of the largest camps of North Germany.
The SS have build a concentration camp at that site of a old closed brick factory, where also brick... | | 08/29/2009 | 67 |
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 | At Springhirsch near Kaltenkirchen was from August 1944 to April 1945 a satellite camp of concentration camp Neuengamme.
The prisoners had to construct a military airport.
About 700 of them died in this camp.
Some remains of the camp are still visible. There is also a small museum and a memorial.
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 | Belong to the German defence Atlantic wall.
The bunker complex with more than 350m, till June 1944, the German have here installed 4 artillery pieces of 105m
http://manche.fr/patrimoine/batterie-azeville.asp | | 08/29/2009 | 40 |
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 | U-boat bunker is located in Lorient. The bunker was 403 x 146m in size and the roof of the bunker was 3,5m thick. The bunker was constructed in the period May 1941 - December 1941 and had a capacity of 7 boats |  | 08/25/2009 | 1,017 |
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 | The bunkers complex consists of two groups of radar one with two radars (Mammut FuMo 51) and the other with radars(FuMo214, FuMo 24 and Regelbau 636) | | 08/25/2009 | 393 |
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 | At the entrance to Eden Camp a Spitfire can be found.
Other items at the museum are:
Spitfire Mk. IX
Hawker Hurricane
Russian T-34/85 Medium Tank
GMC Truck
40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun
White M16 Half Track
Leyland Hippo Mk. II
German sFH 18 150mm Howitzer
Schutzenpanzerwagen SdKfz 251
British 3.7 inch ... | | 08/25/2009 | 68 |
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 | In early 1942, a small contingent of Army personnel, under the command of a Sergeant, arrived at Malton, midway between York and Scarborough in North Yorkshire. Their task was to construct a barbed wire enclosure and erect tents to house the steady flow of enemy prisoners of war captured in North Africa. The site was named Eden Camp and the first inmates were two hundred and fifty Italian pris... | | 08/25/2009 | 46 |
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 | Vierville Artillery Bunkers, Cannon, Ponton-Bridge | | 08/25/2009 | 101 |
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 | An Italian sea plane base was located here from the 20's until the end of World War Two. The facility was used to train pilotes and test sea planes.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/6741 | | 08/25/2009 | 39 |
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 | The Cannock Chase German war cemetery is on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England.
On 16 October 1959, the governments of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany made an agreement about the future care of German military personnel and German civilian internees of both World wars interred in scattered cemeteries not already maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves ... | | 08/21/2009 | 46 |
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 | This site was an airforce-base for fighters and had also function as a leading centre for nightfighters. This proves the presence of a bunker, type L 479, who served as a checkpoint for nightfighters. The pilots stayed at the castle of the landlord. They behaved very correctly according to the marchioness. Only somethimes they used the clock on the tip of the facade as target.
T... | | 08/21/2009 | 40 |
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 | Between the villages Hazebrouck and Cassel in the wood called Bois des 8 Rues you can find this very special launching facility for V1 rockets.
This location is build in 1943 and is nicely preserved throughout the years. There is a tour around the bunkers with information panels.
This location was used for launching V1 rockets. There were hundreds of launching sites all ... | | 08/21/2009 | 121 |
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