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 | Warships at the Base piers, circa August 1944. Among them are:
USS Missouri (BB-63), the largest ship;
USS Alaska (CB-1), on the other side of the pier;
USS Croatan (CVE-25), and destroyers of the Fletcher and "Four-Pipe, Flush-Deck" classes at the next pier. |  | 06/01/2006 | 649 | 
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 | On 7 April 1945, while still some 200 miles north of Okinawa, Yamato was attacked by a massive force of U.S. carrier planes and sunk. Fewer than 300 men of Yamato's crew were rescued and nearly 2500 of her men were lost.
After the war, the great battleship became an object of intense fascination in Japan, as well as in foreign countries. Yamato's remains were located and examined... | | 05/31/2006 | 974 |
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 | 23 Sep, 1941
It was the famous Stuka-ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel who deliverd the striking blow to Marat on the 23d of september. His gunner reported back to Rudel seconds after he released the bomb that the "ship is blowing up, you got her". The 1000kg bomb fell down the "steamtower" and exploded inside the ship. Rudel thus also destroyed a battleship in addition to the hundreds of tanks he h... |  | 05/28/2006 | 907 |
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 | Photo was taken from the 486th BG. | | 05/19/2006 | 447 |
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 | A strike photo showing bomb straddling the river at Bremen shipyards on Mar 30th, 1945. | | 05/15/2006 | 363 |
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 | These are photos of Group Mission #174 to Cologne, Germany on Jan 14th, 1945. The Allies were just breaking out of the battle of the bulge and pushing the Germany army back to Germany. This tactical mission was to destroy a bridge across the Rhine to prevent supplies from arriving and troops from fleeing. Bombing results were excellent. |  | 05/15/2006 | 455 |
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 | Strike Photos for Group Mission #213 to Fulda-Plauen, Germany on Mar 19th, 1945.
Plauen was the primary target but with full cloud cover over the target the group elected to proceed to bomb the marshalling yards at the secondary target (Fulda). The bomb drop was unusual in that one of the first bombs dropped by the group landed on a muntition train and the resultant explosion blew up mos... | | 05/15/2006 | 333 |
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 | Bombing of St. Avord, France airfield at 28.4.44 by the 381st BG. The photo was taken from 14,100 feet by a B-17G. | | 05/15/2006 | 377 |
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 | Aerial recon photo of the airfield at the south coast of Paramushir Island. | | 05/14/2006 | 302 |
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 | During World War II the Japanese had an airfield located on this island. The island was garrisoned by the 41st Independent Mixed Regiment, 6th Independent Tank Company, and supporting units. During 1944 the Japanese facilities on the island were intermittently shelled by U.S. naval and bomber forces. Several Japanese cargo vessels were sunk near the island, and while at harbor. On June 1, 1944,... | | 05/13/2006 | 306 |
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 | Aerial recon photo of Japanese Kuabu Airfield- Located on Paramushiru Island. |  | 05/13/2006 | 344 |
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 | Aerial view of the railroad and street bridge of Nijmegen.
Also included, a view of the city of Nijmegen, Holland, and the Nijmegen Bridge over the Waal (Rhine) River in the background. The city was hit by German and Allied bombardment and shelling. September 28, 1944. | | 05/13/2006 | 938 |
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 | An aerial vertical view of the destroyed bridge with a fly-by photo. | | 05/13/2006 | 861 |
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 | An aerial view of the Railway Bridge which was blown by the Germans on Sunday 17th September 1944. | | 05/13/2006 | 681 |
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 | Bergen-Belsen, (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Between 1943 and 1945 an estimated 50,000 European civilians died there. A memorial and an exhibition centre exist on the site now. | | 05/13/2006 | 1,664 |
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.jpg) | This is a photograph taken of 15 February 1944, which shows the advance from Easy Red at Omaha Beach, Normandy.
Look here http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/100-11/ch4.htm#red for more info about this action. | | 05/12/2006 | 449 |
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 | Seine river bridge at MANTES-GASSICOURT under bombardment by aircraft of Ninth Air Force. | | 05/11/2006 | 241 |
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 | In addition to the radar stations on the Normandy coast were a series of observation posts set around ten kilometres apart, but closer if headlands were concerned, to enable visual signalling to adjacent posts. For the Normandy coast these were regionally controlled by the Flugmelde Zentrale (Plotting Centre) situated some three miles inland near Caen. Altogether the Caen centre controlled some... | | 05/11/2006 | 428 |
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 | This photo shows the advance from Omaha Beach between exits D-3 and E-1 with the direction St.Laurent. | | 05/11/2006 | 967 |
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 | During the First War of Schleswig German troops slowed down outnumbered Danish forces and covered the retreat of the main forces. |  | 04/17/2006 | 294 |
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 | On 13. November 1475 the duchy Savoy fought the Battle on the Planta against the Swiss Confederates and the Upper Valais during the War of the Burgunds.
Phase 1
In the morning the main force of the Savoy (1) crossed the River Morge and defeated in a short fight (2) the vanguards of the Valais. Meanwhile a small force of the Savoy (3) moved on the left flank to Saviese, def... |  | 04/17/2006 | 285 |
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 | The Battle on the Marchfeld (Morava Field) at Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen took place on August 26, 1278 and was a decisive event for the history of Central Europe for the following centuries.
The opponents were King Ottokar II of Bohemia and an Imperial Army led by Rudolf I of Habsburg in alliance with the Hungarian King Ladislaus IV of Hungary. The Hungarian Army included Hungaria... | | 04/17/2006 | 306 |
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 | picture of tuindorp Den Helder WW2 | | 04/08/2006 | 324 |
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 | Picture taken during bombing the Old rijkswerf 19-02-1943 | | 04/07/2006 | 349 |
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 | before picture of bombing old rijkswerf 19-02-1943 | | 04/07/2006 | 261 |
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