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Overlays with information about various wars |
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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 | 233 | 
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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 | 495 |
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 | Bombed by the RAF May 1944. | | 02/11/2007 | 210 |
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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 | 266 |
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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.
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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 | 274 |
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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 | 294 |
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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 | 261 |
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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 | 496 |
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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 | 246 |
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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 | 473 |
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 | Aerial view taken from the USAAF on 4.4.45. | | 02/03/2007 | 268 |
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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 | 492 |
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 | The Battle of Messines was launched on June 7, 1917 by British General Herbert Plumer's second army, which included the 16th (Irish) Division and the 36th (Ulster) Division, near the villages of Mesen (in French Messines, as it was on most maps at that time). The target of the offensive was the Messines Ridge (a ridge running north from Messines village past Wytschaete village, which the Irish ... | | 12/19/2006 | 615 |
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 | Overlay showing ground zero after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945. |  | 12/18/2006 | 2,209 |
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 | Overlay showing Nagasaki, Japan before the atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945. | | 12/18/2006 | 1,415 |
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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 | 372 |
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 | It is in the near of IMMENDORF in Germany 1944 | | 10/28/2006 | 481 |
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 | Das Krakauer Getto | | 10/24/2006 | 594 |
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 | Anti tank ditch SE IMMENDORF 1944 in Germany | | 10/24/2006 | 502 |
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 | Plaszow concentration camp - overlay. | | 10/23/2006 | 1,145 |
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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 | 455 |
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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 | 664 |
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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 1942 t... | | 10/13/2006 | 244 |
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 | Lots of large aicraft | | 10/13/2006 | 1,062 |
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