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 | On 20.05.1999 a huge British bomb from WW2 was found at the university of Koblenz during excavations for a new building.
On 24.05. the almost 2.000 kg heavy explosive ordnance was defused. An area of 1,8 km around the place of the bomb was evacuated (including two hospitals) - about 15.000 "Kowelenzer" (nickname for the people in Koblenz) had to leave this safety area for four... |  | 03/26/2007 | 824 | 
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 | 303rd BG: Munster, Germany Bomb Strike - Mission #263, 26 October 1944 |  | 01/02/2008 | 613 |
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 | Bomb strike photo of 10 May 1944 mission to Wiener-Neustadt, Austria
(taken from 23,500 ft. by A/C # 42-31808) |  | 10/25/2005 | 382 |
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 | The photo was taken on 11 May or 9 August 1944, by an attack of the USAAF against the railway yard in Bonnevoie, Luxembourg. | | 03/26/2007 | 305 |
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 | Strike Photos for Group Mission #213 to Fulda-Plauen, Germany on Mar 19th, 1945.
Plauen was the primary target but with full cloud cover over the target the group elected to proceed to bomb the marshalling yards at the secondary target (Fulda). The bomb drop was unusual in that one of the first bombs dropped by the group landed on a muntition train and the resultant explosion blew up mos... |  | 05/15/2006 | 333 |
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 | Mission: #436
Target type: Jet training field
Aerial photos show that the 376th Bomb Group had covered the entire field with clusters of fragmentation bombs. |  | 10/26/2005 | 308 |
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 | 100th Bomb Group
13th Combat Wing
3rd Air Division
8th AF |  | 11/06/2005 | 753 |
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 | Bomb run by No. 99 Squadron RAF. | | 03/02/2007 | 235 |
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 | An aerial reconnaissance picture made by USAF during WWII.
This picture shows the heavy damage caused by air-raids in 1944 and 1945. About 87% of the city was destroyed.
The left of the two bridges in the north of the pic is a railroad-bridge crossing the River Mosel, the right one is the Balduin bridge, the one of the oldest river-crossing-site of Koblenz.
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 | Montdidier Airfield on July 17, 1944. This was for bomb damage assessment. The airfield looks abandoned.
FRIDAY, 14 JULY 1944
Mission 473: During the evening 131 B-24s are dispatched to hit airfields in France; 54 hit Montdidier Airfield and 39 hit Peronne Airfield; 9 B-24s are damaged. 40 other B-24s fail to bomb because of failure of blind-bombing equipment. Escort is ... | | 12/24/2008 | 382 |
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 | B17's of the USAF bombing Koblenz downtown.
Koblenz, the city at the confluence of River Rhine and River Mosel, was established more than 2,000 years ago by Romans. They called it "Castrum ad Confluentes" (castle at the confluence). The next 2,000 years the name changed (Confluentes -> Covelenz -> Cobelenz -> Coblenz -> Koblenz).
Later it was frequently the residence of t... | | 08/13/2005 | 414 |
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 | 162 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos of Nos 1, 3 and 8 Groups to attack the Rothe Erde railway yards at Aachen. 12 Lancasters lost, 7.0 per cent of the force. The railway lines at the yards, which were not seriously hit in the raid of 2 nights earlier, were now severely damaged and all through traffic was halted. A large proportion of delayed-action bombs were dropped. The local people were impressed... | | 10/30/2005 | 364 |
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