Here is a list and locations of all United States Aircraft Carriers from CV-1 to CVN-77. There is a Scrap Pile and an Active but Not On Google Earth list. In some instances I have a mark in the approximate location where they were sunk. There will be some mistakes so don’t flame me to bad, just tell me where the are and I’ll fix it.
14 warships larger than 2,500 tons sunk (191.018 total tons).
The Allies lost 2 battleships, 3 aircraft carriers, 3 escort carriers and 6 cruisers to the U-boats.
A number of Military Items, includeing: Tanks at Ft. Irwin, two SR-71s, B1B Bombers, a Stealth Bomber, F16s, Aircraft Carriers, Cruisers, and others. Half I found on my own, but the desert gave yard is from Mickey, I believe and I tracked down the some other planes from postings on beenmapped.com.
Here is a missile boat in dry dock, with the missile tube doors opened or removed. You can see the size difference compared to the attack sub in the next dry dock. There are a lot of ships at this port. Subs, cruisers, aircraft carriers, etc.
When the Japanese attacked O‘ahu's military installations on December 7, 1941, Hickam suffered extensive property damage, aircraft losses, and personnel casualties totaling 139 killed and 303 wounded. The bombing and strafing of Hickam Field was an important objective, because the success of the Japanese attack on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was dependent on eliminating air opposition and...
OLDENDORFF CARRIERS operates one of the world's largest floating coal transshipment terminals, the 'ISKEN', in the Bay of Iskenderun in Turkey. The terminal, which was also conceptually designed by OLDENDORFF CARRIERS, was put into operation in November 2002, together with two hopper self-unloaders (HSUs) and two pusher tugs. Around 3.0 million tons of coal are being discharged by this system e...
This is a set of placemarks that identify the visible aircraft on exhibition at the museum. This includes the aircraft in pieces in the back area as well as some of the weapons and vehicles that can't be considered aircraft.
Included in each placemark is a listing of some of the details of the aircraft in question.
The Junkers Ju 52 (nicknamed Tante Ju - "Auntie Ju" - and "Iron Annie") was a German transport aircraft manufactured from 1932 to 1945. It saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s. In a civilian role, it flew with over 12 air carriers including Swissair and Lufthansa as an airline...
72 aircraft - 29 Lancasters, 22 Halifaxes, 21 Stirlings - were dispatched on an interesting raid. All the aircraft were provided by No 8 Group and it was really a mass H2S trial. 33 of the aircraft carried markers or flares, the remaining aircraft acting as the bombing force, although the marker aircraft also bombed. The marking and bombing were very accurate and the whole raid lasted less than...
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