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Overlays with information about various wars |
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 | 12 Venturas dispatched to Ijmuiden steelworks, 12 Bostons to Abbeville airfields and 7 Mosquitos to railway targets at Mons and Rouen. |  | 02/14/2007 | 189 | 
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 | At the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 18 July 1942, during reinstallation of her 14"/50 main battery guns. A large floating crane is alongside her starboard bow, placing a gun in Turret # 1. Guns are also visible in Turret # 3, whose top has not yet been put in place.
Note anti-torpedo nets protecting the ship. |  | 02/11/2007 | 441 |
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 | 12 Bostons to Boulogne docks which were accurately bombed without loss to the Bostons. | | 02/11/2007 | 159 |
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 | 234 aircraft - 146 Wellingtons, 41 Hampdens, 26 Stirlings, 21 Manchesters. 12 aircraft - 7 Wellingtons, 3 Stirlings, 1 Hampden, 1 Manchester - lost.
This raid was the first major success for Bomber Command against a German target. The attack was carried out in good visibility, with the help of an almost full moon and, because of the light defences of this target, from a low level... | | 02/11/2007 | 264 |
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 | 461 Lancasters and 153 Halifaxes to Stuttgart. 17 Lancasters and 4 Halifaxes lost, 4.6 per cent of the force. This was the first of 3 heavy raids on Stuttgart in 5 nights and the only report available is a composite one for the 3 raids. The 3 raids caused the most serious damage of the war in the central districts of Stuttgart which, being situated in a series of narrow valleys, had eluded Bomb... | | 02/11/2007 | 284 |
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 | 378 Lancasters and 7 Mosquitos of Nos 1, 5 and 8 Groups attacked railway targets at Culmont, Revigny and Tours. Culmont and Tours were accurately bombed but cloud interfered with the all-No 1 Group raid at Revigny and only half of the force bombed. 10 Lancasters were lost on the Revigny raid and 2 on the Culmont raid. | | 02/11/2007 | 141 |
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 | 224 aircraft - 184 Lancasters, 30 Stirlings, 10 Mosquitos - of Nos 3 and 8 Groups attacked railway yards at Lens and Valenciennes. The raids took place in clear visibility and both targets were accurately bombed. 6 Lancasters were lost from the Lens raid and 5 Lancasters from Valenciennes. | | 02/11/2007 | 153 |
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 | 82 Lancasters and 4 Mosquitos of No 5 Group attacked and destroyed a railway junction at Saumur without loss. | | 02/11/2007 | 166 |
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 | The first 12,000-lb Tallboy bombs developed by Barnes Wallis were used on this night by 617 Squadron in a raid on a railway tunnel near Saumur, 125 miles south of the battle area. The raid was prepared in great haste because a German Panzer unit was expected to move by train through the tunnel. The target area was illuminated with flares by 4 Lancasters of 83 Squadron and marked at low level by... | | 02/11/2007 | 296 |
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 | Bombed by the RAF May 1944. | | 02/11/2007 | 150 |
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 | 53 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos of No 5 Group bombed the airfield at Tours and caused much damage. 1 Lancaster and 1 Mosquito lost. | | 02/11/2007 | 166 |
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 | 39 Lancasters and 4 Mosquitos of No 5 Group to a small ball-bearing factory at Annecy on the France-Switzerland border. Weather en route was very bad and only 2 Mosquito marker aircraft reached the target, but the factory was accurately bombed. No aircraft lost.
| | 02/10/2007 | 171 |
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 | Ninth AF 2nd Phase Interpretation Report US10/D SPECIAL
DATE: 15 Jan 45, HOUR: 1300A
PERIOD UNDER REVIEW: This report covers all damage to annotated area through 15 Jan 45.
COVER: The M/Y is covered on prints of good quality.
STATEMENT: Within the dotted lines is evidence of a terrific explosion. The area of devastation measures ap... | | 02/10/2007 | 188 |
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 | Ninth AF 2nd Phase Interpretation Report US10/D 734
TOT: 20 Feb 45, 1115A
PERIOD UNDER REVIEW: This report covers DAMAGE FROM 1130A hours, 14.2.45 to date.
COVER: The target is covered on prints of excellent quality.
STATEMENT: Outlined areas are buildings, which have been either destroyed or severely damaged. Approximately 75% of ... | | 02/10/2007 | 176 |
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 | Ninth AF 2nd Phase Interpretation Report US10/D 659
DATE: 19 Jan 45
PERIOD UNDER REVIEW: This report covers all damage to the target as it existed at 1530A hours on 19.1.45
COVER: The target (US10/T 441) is covered on prints of good quality.
STATEMENT: One small warehouse type building destroyed. One large warehouse type building d... | | 02/09/2007 | 188 |
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 | Ninth Air Force: In Germany, 564 A-20s, A-26s and B-26s strike oil storage at Deggendorf and Annaburg, marshalling yards at Memmingen and Wittenberg, ordnance depots at Nordlingen and Straubing, and other targets including flak positions; fighters escort the bombers, fly patrols, sweeps, and armed reconnaissance, attack special targets, and cooperate with US ground forces including the VII Corp... |  | 02/09/2007 | 368 |
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 | TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, close to 400 B-26s and A-20s attack an ammunition dump in Foret de Blois, shipping at Brest, and other targets, including rail bridges at 10 locations in N and W France; fighters escort IX Bomber Command aircraft, cover ground forces, and fly armed reconnaissance in the wide areas of N France (around Paris, as far S as Orleans, and as far NE as ... | | 02/09/2007 | 170 |
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 | STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 315: 754 bombers and 867 fighters are dispatched to bomb airfields, aircraft production industries and targets of opportunity in Germany; the bomber claim 20-1-36 Luftwaffe aircraft and the fighters claim 124-6-58 fighters; 40 bombers and 17 fighters are lost; details are:
1. Of 281 B-17s dispatched, 109 hit Erding Air Depot, 84 hi... | | 02/08/2007 | 338 |
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 | The Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union soldiers were slaughtered in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified troops of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Grant said of the battle in his memoirs &qu... |  | 01/09/2007 | 305 |
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 | A Navy AD-3 "Skyraider" attack plane pulls out of its dive (top center) after dropping a 2000-pound bomb on the Korean side of a bridge over the Yalu River, at Sinuiju, North Korea. Note bomb craters in the vicinity of the bridges.
Photograph is dated 15 November 1950, but may have been taken a few days earlier. | | 11/04/2006 | 284 |
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 | It is in the near of IMMENDORF in Germany 1944 | | 10/28/2006 | 364 |
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 | Anti tank ditch SE IMMENDORF 1944 in Germany |  | 10/24/2006 | 374 |
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 | Battle of Ankara, fought on 1402, took place near Ankara between Ottoman and Timurid forces. Ottoman sultan Beyazid was captured and enslaved. The loss to Timur had drastic effects on Ottomans, a civil war between 4 sons of Beyazid resulted in delaying of Conquest of Istanbul and further progress in Balkans. | | 10/19/2006 | 380 |
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 | The only city in the world which served as capital of three different Empires: The Roman Empire (330-395), Byzantine Empire (395-1453) and the Ottoman Empire (1453-1923).
The Fall of Istanbul to Ottomans marked the end of Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. Over the centuries Istanbul had been under siege many times, but this last successful one required moving 70 ships over land ... | | 10/19/2006 | 495 |
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 | Lots of large aicraft | | 10/13/2006 | 897 |
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