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Overlays with information about various wars |
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 | Precision daylight bombing.
See also:
http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile24394/Pre-Raid-photo-of-Rangoon-railway-yard,-November-1944.htm
http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile24453/Post-raid-photo-of-Rangoon-railway-yard,-November-1944.htm |  | 03/03/2007 | 317 | 
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 | Photo taken over the target, 3 Nov '44, daylight raid by American B-29s based in India. Note the roundhouse & turntable, camouflaged factory/industrial roofs, old bomb craters, rolling stock in the yard. Note also the roof of the roundhouse - some light, some dark - evidence of patchwork from past raids. Also, note the shadow on the outer edge of the roundhouse. You can see where sunlight has s... | | 03/03/2007 | 336 |
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 | Bombed repeatedly by the RAF and Americans. | | 03/03/2007 | 274 |
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 | Attacked by the No. 99 Squadron RAF. | | 03/03/2007 | 207 |
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 | Bombed by the No. 99 Squadron RAF. | | 03/03/2007 | 210 |
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 | Pyanmana railway yard bombed by the No. 99 Squadron RAF. | | 03/03/2007 | 239 |
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 | Attack of the dock area. | | 03/03/2007 | 201 |
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 | Attack of the No. 356 Squadron RAF.
Picture taken during the attack. | | 03/02/2007 | 248 |
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 | Bomb run by No. 99 Squadron RAF. |  | 03/02/2007 | 233 |
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 | Attacked by the No. 356 Squadron RAF.
You can see the first bombs explode. | | 03/02/2007 | 199 |
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 | With the re-establishment of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in 1935, locations for air bases were selected throughout the entire country. The Penzing area was selected for one of these bases because of the suitable geographical, navigational and other technical aspects. Land was procured in 1935 and by spring of 1936 the construction of Landsberg Air Base was well underway. A small detachment... |  | 03/02/2007 | 361 |
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 | Attack of the No. 356 Squadron RAF. | | 03/02/2007 | 209 |
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 | The J.A. Jones Construction Company, a construction engineering firm originally established in North Carolina, was founded in 1890 by James Addison Jones, subsequently becoming one of the major construction firms of the South. The J.A. Jones Company wasn't a shipbuilding company originally, but had established a reputation for good management, which led the USMC to consider the firm as a suitab... | | 03/02/2007 | 207 |
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 | The railway yard and workshops under attack by aircraft of No. 356 (Liberator) Squadron RAF of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command. Smoke is billowing from fires started in rolling-stock and repair facilities.
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 | The town was left 98% in ruins at the end of the First World War, and at one time it was suggested that the ruins might be preserved as a stark reminder of the horrors of war.
See also this file:
http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile24319/Aerial-View-of-Bailleul,-France-(Before-Bombing,-1918).htm | | 03/01/2007 | 295 |
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 | The camp area is marked by a white line.
The largest German WW II POW camp was Stalag VII-A at Moosburg, Germany. Over 110,000 allied soldiers were imprisoned there. It was liberated by the U.S. 14th Armored Division following a short battle with SS soldiers of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division on 29 April, 1945.
More information and pictures here:
htt... |  | 02/28/2007 | 451 |
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 | The town was left 98% in ruins at the end of the First World War, and at one time it was suggested that the ruins might be preserved as a stark reminder of the horrors of war.
See also this file:
http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile24374/Aerial-View-of-Bailleul,-France-(After-Bombing,-1918).htm | | 02/28/2007 | 277 |
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 | Picture was taken after the raid.
486 of 495 B-17s hit transportation targets in the Duren area; 1 B-17 is damaged beyond repair and 8 damaged; 1 airman is WIA. Escort is 151 of 159 P-51s; 1 is damaged beyond repair. | | 02/27/2007 | 388 |
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 | The city of Düren was located on the main fighting front during the Allied invasion of Germany in World War II. During 1944 and 1945, the protracted and bloody Battle for Hürtgenwald was fought on Düren's district area, and on November 16 1944, Düren was completely destroyed by Allied air bombings. Approximately 22,000 people lived in Düren at that time, and 3,000 of them died during the bombin... | | 02/27/2007 | 347 |
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 | In the german Luftwaffe, the airfield was called Nancy-Essay. | | 02/27/2007 | 306 |
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 | Strike photo from the 486th BG (H). | | 02/27/2007 | 240 |
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 | Oflag 79 was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located at Querum, near Braunschweig
It was located in a three story brick building that had previously been the home of a German parachute regiment, near the Herman Goering aircraft engine factory. | | 02/27/2007 | 321 |
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 | Note the damage of prior raids. | | 02/27/2007 | 409 |
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 | Extent of damage from the 7th AAF raids on Yap’s airstrip number one can be seen in this picture of the bomb-pocked airfield and parking areas. A great number of fighter planes are visible. | | 02/27/2007 | 215 |
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 | Yap runway (Caroline Island Group) was target on 22 June 1944 for Consolidated B-24 Liberators of 13th Air Task Force, which bombed and destroyed 16 Japanese planes set five fuel trucks afire, and completed the roundtrip of about 2,100 miles with no looses. | | 02/27/2007 | 228 |
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