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 | Morlaix Viaduct, 29 January 1943
12 Bostons bombed a railway viaduct at Morlaix and 2 of 12 Venturas dispatched bombed a steelworks at Ijmuiden. 1 Boston lost. |  | 10/20/2005 | 312 | 
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 | German dragon teeth's (Höckerlinie) at IJmuiden. |  | 08/29/2009 | 53 | 



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 | M.K.B. Wijk was one of the coastal batteries of Festung Ijmuiden. There are still a M 473a (Firecontrolpost for 17cm battery) and four 671 (Artillery casemate). Unfortunately they are not accessible. |  | 09/27/2006 | 303 | 
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 | The crash site of aircraft X3941, a British Vickers Wellington Mark III bomber, which crashed on 30th January 1943. The aircraft belonged to Number 27 Operational Training Unit. It was on a night-time exercise from Church Broughton when the crash occurred. The aircraft was operating over hilly terrain around Beeley Moor, it struck a line of trees near Gladwins Mark and crashed into a field. Two... |  | 11/15/2007 | 871 | 



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 | In the area of the monumental battery Heerenduin the WN2000 Foundation has taken management of some of the bunkers. Two of these bunkers have been made into as exposition rooms.<br>
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During the war these bunkers served as living quarters (12 men and 2 officers) and they have four rooms each. At the front are the dayrooms (Tagesraum). This part of the bunker is made... |  | 08/29/2009 | 32 | 



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 | Lorient housed a German submarine base during World War II; although the city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing raids, the base survived through the end of the war. As they could not destroy the base itself, the Allies decided to bomb the city, on purpose, to cut the supplying of the U-Boats. Without gasoline, food, or water it became impossible for these submarines to return to the Atlanti... |  | 06/27/2006 | 944 | 



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 | Second World War baterie in IJmuiden(holland)
http://www.atlanticwall.polimi.it/museum/bunker/bunker_netherland.php?inventory_ID=116# |  | 09/14/2006 | 255 | 



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 | Thurleigh (pronounced "THIR-lye") was built for RAF Bomber Command in 1941 by W & C French Ltd. one mile north of the village of Thurleigh on farmland between the farms of Buryfields, Bletsoe Park, Manor, and Whitwickgreen. It was eventually modified to Air Ministry Class A airfield specifications, with three converging runways, extended in 1942 to lengths of 6,000 feet (runway 06-24) and 4,200... |  | 05/30/2008 | 356 | 



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 | Wooden bridge which spanned the Mae Klong River (renamed Kwai Yai River in 1960). Construction began in October 1942, it was completed and operational by early February 1943. Both the wooden and the adjacent steel bridge were subjected to numerous air raids between January and June 1945 |  | 10/15/2005 | 3,266 | 
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 | 2 January 1944 Ventimiglia Railroad Bridge, Italy |  | 04/15/2007 | 276 | 



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 | 3 January 1944 Roccasecca Road Bridge, Italy |  | 04/15/2007 | 239 | 



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 | Atlantic was built during WW2 as a satellite airfield for MCAS Cherry Point. The Navy acquired 1,470 acres of land in early 1942, and construction commenced later that year.
The 1st aircraft reportedly arrived at Atlantic in 1943 [but that is contradicted by the 1942 photos above], the Douglas SDB Dauntless dive bombers of VMSB-341, followed shortly by VMSB-342.
A... |  | 09/19/2008 | 214 | 



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