During World War II, Operation Detroit was the insertion, by parachute and glider, of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division into Normandy on the night of 5–6 June 1944 as part of Operation Overlord. The drop zone for the 82nd Airborne was around Sainte-Mère-Église, to the west of Utah beach, intending to protect the western flank of the invasion.
Amazon river, Río Amazonas - Worlds largest river! Try this extensive tour of more than 6400 kilometers (3977 miles) with more than 400 placemarks (an average of more than one placemark every 16 kilometers, 10 miles) taking you on a flight over the landscape in Peru and Brazil from the Amazon river spring as a glacial stream on a snowcapped 5597 meter (18363 feet) peak called Nevado Mismi in th...
The River Man is a floating sculpture located in Cordova, Spain and was made by the sculptors Rafael Cornejo and Francisco Marks. The sculture is made of cork. On April 18th in 2006 it was placed in the river Guadalquivir and anchored to the bottom to avoid the drift.
One week after its appearance, the sculpture came off its anchorages and was running aground. It's sculptors deci...
Once upon a time, on a stormy night on June 6, 2000, the 250-metre long bulk carrier "MV River Princess" was yanked out from panjim port's outer anchorage, got drifted away and finally grounded at the picturesque Sinquerim-Candolim beach. It was a coincidence that exactly six years after the oil-carrying "MV Sea Transporter" was grounded off the Sinquerim beach, the "Ri...
George Washington Bridge
220 Bruce Reynolds Boulevard, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
The two-level George Washington Bridge (GWB) crosses the Hudson River between upper Manhattan (West 178th Street) and Fort Lee, New Jersey and forms part of Interstate Highway I-95.
This suspension bridge was designed by Othmar H. Ammann who was the Port Authority's Chief Engineer duri...
During the afternoon of the 14th, the "hot information" on the big push came down through channels. "H" Hour of "D" Day was to be the break of dawn the morning of 15 August. The invasion was to be aimed at the southern coast of France. Missions of the Fifteenth Air Force in the support of the invasion were four in number: (1) To cause...
The Bow River, in the Flood of '05. This river swelled to enormous sizes during early Summer near and in Calgary due to immense rains. It does, however, make for some cool water effects in all the rushing nature. It practically made the Bow River a lake in some areas behind the Beaver Dam.
This is the route, with some extrapolations, of the book River Horse by William Least Heat-Moon: across the United States by as much river, lake and stream as possible.
Binchester Roman Fort (called Vinovia by the Romans) is situated just over 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north of the town of Bishop Auckland on the banks of the River Wear in County Durham, England. The fort was the site of a hamlet until the late middle-ages, but the modern-day village of Binchester is about 2 miles (3 km) to the east, near Spennymoor.
Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, was the date Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of the World War II in Europe. The first contact was made between patrols near Strehla, when First Lieutenant Albert Kotzebue crossed the River Elbe in a boat with three men of an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon. On the east bank, they...
This is Port Noarlunga Beach, South Australia. The jetty going off of it goes to a long,rare, temperate climate reef. The river just south of it is Onkaparinga River (aboriginal for woman's river). However the reef is the state's first aquatic reserve and the river is the state's longest national park.
You can see Dawson City on the bank of the Yukon River, where gold-rushers rushed in 1898.
The river joining the Yukon from the east is the famous Klondyke River. Along the river you can spot huge "scars" made by big, floating gold dredges.
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