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	Gold Beach I (Overlay) An aerial reconnaissance picture of Gold Beach during D-Day. Gold Beach was the Allied codename for the centre invasion beach during the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. It lay between Omaha Beach and Juno Beach, was 8km wide and divided into four sectors. From West to East they were How, Item, Jig, and King. The grim task of invading Gold Be...		08/10/2005	1,082
	Dieppe (Overlay) An aerial reconnaissance picture of Dieppe, France, from June 30th 1942, made from an altitude of 25,000 ft. On August 19, 1942, during the Second World War, it was the site of the Dieppe Raid, a bloody landing by Allied soldiers, mainly Canadian.		08/10/2005	590
	Heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen (Overlay) A reconnaissance picture of the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen during "Operation Rheinuebung" in Kalvanes Bay. The picture was made by Lieutenant Michael Suckling (RAF) on 21st May 1941 at 13:15 from an altitude of 26,200 ft.		08/10/2005	912
	Battleship Bismarck (Overlay) A reconnaissance picture of the German battleship Bismarck during "Operation Rheinuebung" in the Grimstadfjord. The picture was made by Lieutenant Michael Suckling (RAF) in his Spitfire on May 21st 1941 at 13:15 from an altitude of 26,200 ft.		08/10/2005	1,540
	Mulberry Harbour B A reconnaissance picture of the Mulberry Harbour made during WWII. The Mulberry harbours were two prefabricated or artificial military harbours, which were carried across the English Channel from Britain with the invading army and assembled off the coast of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion of France. The remains of Mulberry 'B' can still be seen off the Normandy coast at Ar...		08/08/2005	977
	Olympic Stadium, Berlin (WWII overlay) A reconnaissance picture of the Olympia-Stadion (Olympic stadium) made during WWII. The German Stadium was built between 1912 and 1913 within the boundaries of the horse racing track at Charlottenburg near the Grunewald Forest. At the time, its capacity of 40,000 made it the largest sports stadium in the world, intended to be the main stadium for the 1916 Summer Olympics, which had been ...		08/08/2005	1,677
	Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw, Poland Placemark for the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Wikipedia link). Includes two overlays, one with a map of the Ghetto during World War II, the other a 1888 street map of Warsaw.		08/06/2005	1,151
	D-Day Mullberry Harbour A Mulberry Harbour was a type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on a beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy. By June 9, just 3 days after D-Day, two harbours codenamed Mulberry 'A' and 'B' were constructed at Omaha Beach and Arromanches, respectively. However, a large storm on June 19 destroyed the American harbour at Omaha, leaving only the Br...		08/05/2005	892

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