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 | This is the original plan of Barcelona's Eixample (=extension, also the name of the present day neighbourhood that resulted from the plan) The Eixample is all the perfect square parts of the city. This plan was made before construction started. Use the opacity slider to compare with the outcome. |  | 09/08/2007 | 532 | 
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 | These are made of solid concrete and must each weigh several tonnes. They remain as reminders of the dark days of 1940 when the fear of invasion by Nazi hordes was a real one. Had the Germans reached this far, an unlikely eventuality from what little I know about war games that have been done to model the invasion scenario, it is doubtful whether these obstacles would have done much to make the... | | 11/18/2009 | 16 |
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 | This map shoes the all the regions of Japan. |  | 10/24/2005 | 576 |
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 | Registration: JA8916
Serial: 26362/1202
Yokoso means Welcome. This a campaign of the Japan National Tourist Organisation to visit Japan.
http://www.visitjapan.jp/ | | 09/16/2008 | 473 |
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 | 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 |
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 | Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the German codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941. It was to be the turning point for the fortunes of Hitler's Third Reich in that the failure of Operation Barbarossa arguably resulted in the eventual overall defeat of Nazi Germany. The Eastern Front which was opened by Operat... |  | 10/24/2005 | 861 |
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 | Operation Overlord. France
Overlay of the Allied and Axis formations 5th June 1945.
Main US, British and Canadian landing beaches and airborne objectives.
Note; - The German 7th Army sitting 10km to the south of the main landings. These forces sat on their hands for a crucial 24 hours whilst they tried to work out the Allied plans. This confusion was partly ... |  | 12/10/2005 | 1,574 |
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 | Historical interest - archive WWII air photo matching surviving relic structures. Although no longer physically visible on the ground, the surviving runway layout is clearly visible from the air - enhanced by the dry conditions - and ties in well to the WWII imagery. | | 06/20/2007 | 766 |
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 | The picture of a bomb raid during WWII shows heavy hits around the Central Station. | | 08/13/2005 | 327 |
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 | Maubeuge is straight in the North invasion way-in but at the very beginning of WWI, the forts belt was too weak to resist german heavy artillery storm, so did the town felt. Some of these forts were partially modernized before WWII but, again, this was done too little. Facing the panzers rush the town felt after an heroic fight for the second time in 25 years. | | 12/05/2005 | 231 |
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 | A reconnaissance picture of the Mulberry Harbour made during WWII.
The Mulberry harbours were two prefabricated or artificial military harbours, which were carried across the English Channel from Britain with the invading army and assembled off the coast of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion of France.
The remains of Mulberry 'B' can still be seen off the Normandy coast at Ar... | | 08/08/2005 | 980 |
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 | At the beach near Cap Breton in Aquitane, France, you can see the remains of Bunkers which should protect occupied France for the landing of the allied Forces. These Bunkers are now, 60 years later, washed out by the sea of the Dunes where they originally where placed. They were never used, because the D-Day invasion occured some 300 miles away in the north of France.
These bunkers... | | 08/15/2005 | 2,007 |
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