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 | Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, has started a program for developing the largest aircraft ever built, the Airbus A380, which will beable to carry between550 and 800 passengers on twodec... |  | 01/31/2010 | 29 | 
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 | 5,000 french castles and manoirs (17th-18th centuries). Now, I reupload much more, including hotels particuliers in three cities of France. Enjoy !
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 | No. 2531-6. Consolidated 28-5A Canso A (C-FCRR c/n 21996)
10/31/2008. Built by Boeing of Canada at Vancouver, it became RCAF Canso 9767 on March 4, 1943, and was allocated to Squadro... | | 01/20/2010 | 27 |
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 | The radar station to the east of Pointe du Hoc mistaken as their landing place by Col Rudder and his Rangers on the morning of d-day.
The is was German Navy Radar station named "... | | 01/19/2010 | 34 |
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 | The battle of Vauquois is a battle of the First World War on the Western Front. It lasted almost the entire duration of the conflict and took place on the mound Vauquois, height of the Meuse, 25 km... | | 01/19/2010 | 11 |
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 | The rocket launch and maintenance site at La Boissais is the most complete that I have found in Normandy. There are visible signs of the visits from the RAF, but most of the site is intact. The sit... | | 01/16/2010 | 877 |
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 | This huge bunker was construced in early 1943 to serve as covered launch base for V-1's. The complex was multiple times bombed by the Allies with 'Tallboy' bombs, but without any succes. The bunker... | | 01/16/2010 | 60 |
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 | Ouvrage Hochwald is an ouvrage of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Haguenau in the community of Drachenbronn-Birlenbach, it was designed to protect the Northern Vosges region. T... | | 01/16/2010 | 35 |
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 | This radar station came under the jurisdiction of the Luftwaffe, and over 200 officers and enlisted men served here The power for the radar and associated equipment came from diesel generators hous... | | 01/16/2010 | 40 |
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 | The site here at Bricquebec was the last installation to be built to handle the V1 flying bomb in the area. By early 1944 two major factors had influenced the handling and launching of the V1. Firs... | | 01/16/2010 | 63 |
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 | Near the Hameau des Asselins lies the most interesting of German bunkers. This is a rare Mammut radar installation (named Gouesneraie), used not only for detecting shipping, but it also gave the ra... | | 01/16/2010 | 23 |
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 | The village of La Pernelle was well favored by the Germans. Not only did they build two gun emplacements near the village, they also installed one of the largest
"Coast Watcher” radar ... | | 01/16/2010 | 20 |
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 | On the outskirts of the town at the edge of the camping site is a radio guidance bunker. The bunker is 130 meters above the sea. The system used here was the second generation of radio guidance cal... | | 01/15/2010 | 19 |
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 | Erika was a late development in radio guidance, and came too late to have much effect on the German’s war effort. They had started with Knickebein, then progressed to X-Gerat and Y-Gerat, all of wh... | | 01/15/2010 | 23 |
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 | This was never a fort, but after the German invasion the local population were excluded from all sensitive sites such as this and it became known as " The German Fort".
On the same... | | 01/15/2010 | 20 |
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 | Near the village of Hardinvast, to the south of Cherbourg there is a V1 site , possibly the last of the "ski" to be partly constructed.
At the end of 1943 when the Gestapo took con... | | 01/15/2010 | 36 |
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 | La Glacerie is one of nine V1 Ski sites in Normandy. The buildings are mostly made from local brick and only the bunker is made from concrete. The ramp shows signs of bomb damage, but the rest of t... | | 01/15/2010 | 46 |
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 | One very unique structure related to the Wizernes project is in the small French place of Roquetoire, about 8-9 km away from the small town Wizernes and southeast from St. Omer. In this fortress-li... | | 01/14/2010 | 51 |
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 | The two massive German works projects in the Cherbourg peninsular were intended for the launching of V-weapons toward England. The Germans had started construction of a protected launching site at ... | | 01/14/2010 | 59 |
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 | The fortress of Maubeuge stood on the River Sambre, just inside France. In August 1914 it stood directly in the line of the great German sweep through Belgium that was at the heart of the Schlieffe... | | 01/14/2010 | 199 |
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