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 | Duxford Aerodrome (IATA: QFO, ICAO: EGSU) is located 8 nautical miles (14.8 km) south of Cambridge in the village of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.
The airfield is owned jointly by the Imperial War Museum and Cambridgeshire County Council and is the site of the Imperial War Museum Duxford and the American Air Museum.
Duxford Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licenc... |  | 05/30/2008 | 324 | 
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 | RAF Fowlmere is a former airfield in the United Kingdom. The airfield is located six miles SW of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire.
Flying at Fowlmere originated in 1918 when the airfield was used by Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Service Aero Squadrons. After World War I ended, the hangars were all demolished along with the assorted buildings by 1923.
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 | In Reillon, a Germen and a French war cemetery from the First World War are lying next to each other. After the Second World War, the German cemetery was extended for reburying all the German war casualties in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region.
The cemetery contains 2,586 German war graves from the Second World War. Of these, 330 are located in a mass grave.
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 | SS Red Oak Victory is a World War II Victory ship preserved as a museum ship in Richmond, California. It was one of 534 Victories built during World War II, but one of only a few of these ships to be transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy. It was named after Red Oak, Iowa, which suffered a disproportionate number of casualties in early World War II battles. The ship was ... | | 07/13/2009 | 220 |
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 | RAF Bassingbourn is a former military airbase located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 miles (5 km) north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 11 miles (18 km) south west of Cambridge. During World War II it served first as an RAF station and then as a bomber base of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Now known as Bassingbourn Barracks, it functions as a Phase One recruit training base and is home to Army Tr... | | 05/30/2008 | 232 |
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 | Wimpole Hall is a country house located in Cambridgeshire, England. The house, the largest house in Cambridgeshire, was begun in 1640, and its 3,000 acres of parkland and farmland are now owned by the National Trust and are regularly open to the public. Wimpole Hall's grounds were laid out and modified by landscape designers such as George London and Henry Wise (1693–1705), Charles Bridgeman ... |  | 03/01/2006 | 376 |
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 | Milton Keynes in the UK is the butt of many jokes for its concrete cows. These cows were placed in a field next to the main London-Glasgow railway line so that passengers looking out onto the new city of Milton Keynes would see cows grazing in a field as they went by. |  | 02/23/2006 | 167 |
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 | This war cemetery started in the First World War. During this war 831 French and 120 German soldiers were buried here, al well as one soldier from Austria-Hungary
In the Second World War the cemetery was re-used for the burial of 47 French soldiers.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3455 | | 08/19/2009 | 117 |
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 | Flight pioneer Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867 in this small farm house near Millville, Indiana. He was the third of seven children born to Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Koerner Wright (married in 1859). Milton was a minister in the United Brethren Church, professor of theology, editor of his church newspaper, and an elected Bishop in his church. Susan excelled in literature and sc... | | 07/07/2009 | 53 |
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 | The Italian war cemetery for fallen soldiers from the First World War, also contains the graves of 20 Italian POW's from the Second World War. They died in German captivity (1943).
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5272 | | 09/21/2009 | 328 |
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 | This war cemetery started in the First World War. During this war 1,140 French, 327 British, 201 German soldiers, one Belgian and one Russian soldiers were buried here.
In the Second World War the cemetery was re-used for the burial of 909 French soldiers.
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/3456 | | 08/19/2009 | 253 |
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 | RAF Glatton is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 10 miles N of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.
Glatton was constructed in 1943 and was assigned to the United States Army Air Force Eighth Air Force as a heavy bomber airfield. Its layout was unique in that the three runways surrounded Rose Court Farm which continued to operate in the center of the airfi... | | 05/30/2008 | 239 |
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