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 | Mittelbau was a complex of factories, storage depots, facilities and prisoner camps, some underground, that were used from August, 1943 until April, 1945 to manufacture and test the V-2 rocket near Nordhausen in central Germany. The main V-2 assembly line was located in an underground factory called Mittelwerk that was excavated beneath Kohnstein Mountain, about 2 km southwest of the town of Ne... |  | 03/31/2006 | 980 | 
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 | This is a picture of the RAF bombing raid on 25 April 1945 of the obersalzberg complex and hitlers berghof. | | 03/26/2006 | 1,092 |
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Between 8. and 15. June 1944 the 101. Airborne Division fought the Battle of Carentan against troops of the 6. Fallschirmregiment (Parachute Regiment) and the 17. SS-Panzergrenadierdivision. Carentan was one of the key positions to take Cherbourg and the peninsula Cotentin.
Prelude
After the invasion began Allied units tried to take the bigger cities in the back coun... | | 03/20/2006 | 2,339 |
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 | Westland picture from 1944 world war 2 |  | 03/12/2006 | 287 |
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 | picture of bombed old Den Helder upper left corner picture taken 10-04-1944 |  | 03/06/2006 | 228 |
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 | fort erprins 12-09-1944 | | 02/27/2006 | 350 |
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 | Stalag Luft III was a German prisoner of war camp during World War II that housed captured air force personnel and was operated by the German Luftwaffe. It was located near Sagan, now Żagań in Poland, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Berlin. The site is best known because of two famous prisoner escapes that took place there. The first, in 1943, was recorded in the book and film "The Wo... | | 02/27/2006 | 1,020 |
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 | In 1942, almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned by Presidential order. Others were also confined. This file shows the primary centers, many with map overlays:
10 Relocation Centers
16 Assembly Centers
48 Immigration & Naturlization Service
34 Military
2 Citizen Isolation Camps
3 Federal Bureau of Prisons |  | 02/15/2006 | 321 |
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 | Colditz Castle dates back to about 1200AD but became notorious during World War II as Oflag IVc (Officer's Camp IVc), a prisoner-of-war camp for "incorrigible" allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps. The Nazi SS made Colditz a Sonderlager (high-security prison), the only one of its type within Germany. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring even declared Colditz "escape-proof". Th... | | 02/14/2006 | 755 |
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 | DKM Bismarck -4850m undersea overlay (to be added to W.W.II sunk ships file) | | 02/12/2006 | 1,461 |
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 | This Batterie which overlooked both the Omaha and Utah landing beaches was equipped with six 155 mm type K418 guns. These guns would have had a range of approximately 22 kms and could have inflicted damage to the Allied ships at both the American landing beaches.
Only two of the Casemates were finished by D-day, but the guns not installed..
These were of the type H671. The Fire ... |  | 02/08/2006 | 1,562 |
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 | Located on the right wing of the fortified area of Haguenau, the 'ouvrage' Schoenenbourg commanded all approaches from the north-east. In fact, in can be regarded as a pattern implementation of the mental image of a rather up-to-date achievement in those days. Indeed, it gathers all the main features arising from the experience acquired during the battles at Verdun (1916 to 1918), namely : the ... | | 02/08/2006 | 603 |
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 | Utah lost DD Tanks multibeam images, plus UW photographies.
The 3 marks on the NE are half sand beared tanks lying on the side, and the SW mark is a perfect Tank standing alone on the sand.
See also:
http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/episodearchive.jsp?ACatId=8802355&CaseId=8802353&EGrpId=274739
Or:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0... | | 02/03/2006 | 1,355 |
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 | Another WW2 underwater view.
Usualy those images are 3D images but i do not know how to make them working in 3D in GE
Three DD tanks, sank June 6th 44.
See also:
http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/episodearchive.jsp?ACatId=8802355&CaseId=8802353&EGrpId=274739
Or:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0206/feature1/zoom2.html
... | | 02/02/2006 | 662 |
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 | Just before 10:20 p.m. on July 17th, 1944, the worst home front disaster of WWII, occurred at a Naval pier in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Five thousand tons of ammunition in ships being loaded by black sailors exploded, sending a blast more than 12,000 feet into the sky.
The explosion destroyed the pier, a train, and both ships, instantly killing everyone aboard ... | | 02/02/2006 | 445 |
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 | Please let me know if you want me to post more file like that.
Bertrand
This a multibeam sounder view of the shipwreck of the USS Susan B Anthony
Image treated with Fledermaus /Copyright Steeve Schmidt, Naval Historical center
- History Channel
- On June 7, 1944, the troopship USS Susan B. Anthony transported nearly 3,000 Army and Navy men on t... | | 01/31/2006 | 844 |
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 | This an underwater multibeam sounder view of the bank of the Cardonnet with many shipwrecks sank over Normandy coast June 6th 1944.
Cardonnet bank is just off Utah Beach
Datas acquired during Neptune 2K expedition.
Image treated by Duncan Mallace with Fledermaus
http://www.netsurvey.co.uk/
Copyright Steeve Schmidt, Naval Historical center
More at www.ce... | | 01/30/2006 | 775 |
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 | This is a multibeam sounder view of the LST523 sank over Normandy coast June 19th 1944
Datas acquired during Neptune 2K expedition.
Image treated by Duncan Mallace with Fledermaus
http://www.netsurvey.co.uk/
Copyright Steeve Schmidt, Naval Historical center
More at www.ceresm.com - Bertrand Sciboz
Hope you enjoy the post
Bertrand | | 01/29/2006 | 819 |
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 | At least seven-and-a half thousand Bosnian Muslims missing, presumed dead. Some six thousand of them were the victims of mass executions. That is the dreadful outcome of the events following the invasion and capture of the Srebrenica enclave - an official Safe Area - by the Bosnian Serb army, the VRS. | | 01/29/2006 | 580 |
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 | Another view of Mulberries A at Omaha beach
A multibeam echo sounder underwater view of the sunken Omaha WW2 artificial harbour.
Usually those datas are in 3D
You can even see a big ship tanked in the harbour.
The name of this ship is the SS Exford
Datas acquired during Neptune 2K expedition.
Copyright Steeve Schmidt, Naval Historical center
More... |  | 01/28/2006 | 505 |
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 | Another view of Mulberries A at Omahha beach
A multibeam echo sounder underwater view of the sunken Omaha WW2 artificial harbour.
Usually those datas are in 3D
You can even see a big ship tanked in the harbour.
The name of this ship is the SS Exford
Datas acquired during Neptune 2K expedition.
Copyright Steeve Schmidt, Naval Historical center
Mor... | | 01/28/2006 | 356 |
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 | A multibeam echo sounder underwater view of the sunken Omaha WW2 artificial harbour.
Usually those datas are in 3D
You can even see a big ship tanked in the harbour.
The name of this ship is the SS Exford
Datas acquired during Neptune 2K expedition.
Copyright Steeve Schmidt, Naval Historical center
More at www.ceresm.com - Bertrand Sciboz | | 01/26/2006 | 683 |
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 | A few years ago, in June 2002 issue of National geographic Magazine, we made a map of the DDAY invasion, with most of the allied troups shipwreck in Seine Bay
Copyright National Geographic Magazine
Shipwrecks by Bertrand SCIBOZ
and Marc VIOLET, CERES,
European Underwater Research Center - www.ceresm.com
Land relief by Scott Gowan - Worldsat Internatio... | | 01/25/2006 | 3,296 |
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 | Nice painting view of the SS Leopoldville sank in Xmas 44 by german submarine U486
Painting done by our famous french painter Claude Lemonnier in St Vaast la Hougue
© CERES 2006 – more at www.ceresm.com | | 01/23/2006 | 656 |
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 | It was the Bridge Too Far which was the last British defeat of the Second World War. The audacious attempt to race through the Netherlands from Arnhem and sweep into Germany failed to shorten the war and cost 8,000 Allied lives. | | 01/22/2006 | 701 |
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