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 | Location Of A Lancaster Bomber |  | 01/11/2006 | 2,167 | 



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 | Lancaster bomber over Wizernes V-weapons site during the daylight raid of 20 July 1944. |  | 07/21/2009 | 742 | 
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 | 11/12 September 1944
Darmstadt: 226 Lancasters and 14 Mosquitos of No 5 Group. 12 Lancasters lost, 5.3 per cent of the Lancaster force. A previous No 5 Group attack in August had failed to harm Darmstadt but, in clear weather conditions, the group's marking methods produced an outstandingly accurate and concentrated raid on this almost intact city of 120,000 people. A fierce fire... |  | 10/19/2005 | 629 | 
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 | this plane is ready to land at augsburg airport, approx. 57 meters high. |  | 11/18/2006 | 174 | 



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 | In the Ice Canal of Augsburg you see kayakers training. |  | 12/22/2007 | 147 | 



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 | 21 March 1945
178 aircraft - 150 Halifaxes, 16 Lancasters, 12 Mosquitos - of Nos 4, 6 and 8 Groups carried out an accurate attack upon the railway yards and the surrounding town area at Rheine. 1 Lancaster lost. |  | 10/27/2008 | 380 | 
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 | 170 Lancasters and 17 Halifaxes repeated the raid on Berlin. The weather was better than on the previous night but the Pathfinders were again unable to mark the centre of the city and again the bombing fell mainly in the southern areas. The Bomber Command report stated that the Daimler-Benz factory was hit, either during this night or during the raid of the previous night, but this is not confi... |  | 10/29/2005 | 673 | 
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 | This overlay shows the area in Kassel city centre 1944 after RAF has bombeb it in 1943.
During World War II, during the night of October 22/23, 1943, 569 British bombers (Arthur Harris´ Bomber Command) razed Kassel destroying 90% of the city centre; about 10,000 people died in the raid and 150,000 were rendered homeless, in a firestorm comparable to the one in Hamburg in July 194... |  | 08/23/2005 | 705 | 
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 | Avro Lancaster (Just Jane) East Kirkby Air Museum |  | 10/05/2007 | 258 | 



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 | 178 aircraft - 150 Halifaxes, 16 Lancasters, 12 Mosquitos - of Nos 4, 6 and 8 Groups carried out an accurate attack upon the railway yards and the surrounding town area at Rheine. 1 Lancaster lost. |  | 10/30/2005 | 470 | 
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 | High altitude view of the airfield (center-left), old Messerschmitt factory (center) and the village of Haunstetten (right).
The former factory airfield now houses parts of the university and a housing estate. The streets there are named after well-known persons who have gone down in the history of aircraft construction at Augsburg, thus representing a reminder as to the earlier... |  | 02/12/2007 | 405 | 



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 | The Tallboy was an Earth quake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. It weighed five tons and, carried by the Avro Lancaster bomber, was effective against concrete structures against which earlier, smaller bombs had proved ineffective. |  | 10/24/2007 | 1,097 | 



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