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Wilhelmshaven 1940 - Related Files

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	Before and after aerial photos of the bombing of Wilhelmshaven The German port city of Wilhelmshaven was bombed twice in 1943 -- once by the USAAF on January 27, and again by the RAF Bomber Command on February 11-12. These aerial reconnaissance images show Wilhelmshaven before and after the two bombings. The second bombing, carried out at night, was especially challenging because of dense cloud cover. Planes equipped with the RAF's newly developed H2S grou...		08/06/2008	272
	Wilhelmshaven bomb strike, 11-12 and 18 February 1943 Wilhelmshaven. This was an interesting and important raid by 177 aircraft - 129 Lancasters, 40 Halifaxes and 8 Stirlings. The Pathfinders found that the Wilhelmshaven area was completely covered by cloud and they had to employ their least reliable marking method, skymarking by parachute flares using H2S. The marking was carried out with great accuracy and the Main Force bombing was very effecti...		10/29/2005	469
	Railroad --- Germany, Wilhelmshaven - Esens (Ostfriesl) -- NordWestBahn - Railroad with all trainstations Wilhelmshaven–Sande–Jever–Esens Nordwestbahn Kursbuchstrecke (KBS) 393		06/22/2008	146
	Railroad --- Wilhelmshaven - Osnabrueck -- NordWestBahn - KBS 392 Railroad with all trainstations Wilhelmshaven - Oldenburg - Osnabrueck Nordwestbahn Kursbuchstrecke (KBS) 392		06/22/2008	416
	Railroad --- Wilhelmshaven - Bremen -- NordWestBahn - KBS 390 Railroad with all trainstations Wilhelmshaven – Oldenburg – Bremen Nordwestbahn Kursbuchstrecke (KBS) 390		06/22/2008	331
	Destroyer D186 Moelders as museum ship D186 Mölders was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the second ship of the Lütjens class, a modification of the Charles F. Adams class. On March 3, 1965 Bath Iron Works got the order to build Mölders and her keel was laid down on April 12, 1966 with the hull number DDG-29. April 13, 1...		10/24/2007	342
	Hamburg, 1940 German attempts to camouflage parts of Hamburg, 1940		10/20/2005	851
	Memorial May 1940 - Battle for the Leie The permanent exhibition "Battle for the Leie 1940" starts with a reproduction of the end offensive in 1918. The battle for the Leie officially lasted from 24 May up to 28 May 1940. In an old factory at Kuurne, situated on the former battlefield, a piece of forgotten history is presented in the form of dioramas, photographs, documents, uniforms, weapons and numerous oth...		09/04/2009	217
	German frigates in Wilhelmshaven You can see 3 Bremen class (F122), 1 Brandenburg class (F123) and 2 Sachsen class (F124) in the Naval Base and the Arsenal.		10/24/2007	353
	Military Airport Chievres In 1939 the Belgian government decided to built a military airbase near Chièvres. The preparatory work starting at the end of the same year. After the German invasion of Belgium on May 10 1940, the Germans occupied the area on May 19 1940 and install the JG 26; that will remain until early June. In June 1940 started the construction of the buildings of the German airbase. ...		09/10/2009	39
	40 Acre Ranch 1940 plot plan (overlay) of RKO Studios "40 Acre Ranch". The plan shows set locations still standing in 1940. The most notable sets are from "Gone With The Wind", filmed one year before. The backlot was sold to developers in 1976, and turned into an industrial park.		01/01/2008	692
	Armistice with France 1940 The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed at 18:50 on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne, in the department of Oise, between Nazi Germany and France. Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France (10 May–21 June 1940), it established a German occupation zone in Northern France that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports and left the remainder "free" to be...		08/31/2009	42