Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects

51°18'36.62"N 4°21'14.57"E

I seem to remember being told that this place
is where Luftwaffe seaplanes used to be based
in Antwerp?

 

51°18'36.62"N 4°21'14.57"E

I seem to remember being told that this place
is where Luftwaffe seaplanes used to be based
in Antwerp?

Have you seen this guide to uploading Google Earth kmz files?

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/network-information/15885-google-earth-files.html

 

Aha, thank you. It was only because at the start of the thread
there appeared to be kmz files missing in posts (due to age?).

I shall post kmz's - if I find anything interesting!

Kind regards

 

Hi all.

There isn't really much to see here as the area has been redeveloped since the war. I'm just testing out the new kmz file attachments to see if they work for me.

This is the Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw ghetto. The exact spot where jews being transported to Treblinka waited for hours in blistering heat with no food or water. The rail tracks are no longer there but would have went north west to meet up with the main rail line.

 

Here's one: the old location of the AAA canons
on the Isle of Dogs where I grew up. Much has
been redeveloped, but when I was a kid I was
playing in concrete shelters and ammo stores
and there were still the huge screws and plates
which held the guns in place. I think you can still
see a branch track which led to the ammo dumps?

The place used to be called The Mudchute, created
by dumping of the waste earth/mud/clay removed
when the Millwall and West India Docks were built.

There were many other concrete bunkers and pill-boxes
located around the riverside on the Island but those
have been gone since about '85

 

here's a treasure hunt.

The Sovietsub > The Russian Submarine < Home
used to be in Woolwich (where I visited it)
then moved to Bristol and then Folkestone

Where is it now?

 

two more, near to my house

 

apologies if a repost

Google Earth Hacks - War-Related Overlays

 

couple more, the KDF Hotel and something odd in the desert

 

Eight civilians were killed by the first V1 to land on London, in Grove Road in the Mile End district.
This hit the capital in the early hours of June 13, 1944.
The 13rd of June 1944 AD, First V1 Rocket hits London, famous dates in History

I think if you study the 'archeology' you can clearly see that V1's kept falling along that axis, eventually taking out the whole street from Mile End to Victoria Park. Much was rebuilt on the opposite side of the road, but it soon returns to original Victorian architecture. The old pub is original, the only building to remain standing other than two 'pockets of resistance'. If you follow the axis south easterly, you'll come to the Isle Of Dogs and the Port of London Docks, the obvious target. Shows you how many over shot, but were still bloody close (and the Island was re-devestated by them) for such an early technology!

Oh, and the T-34 in Bemondsey

 

Excellent stuff!

 

some 2001 details regarding the KDF Hotel here:
Inside the holiday camp Hitler built | Travel | The Observer

2007 - plans to reopen as Hotel
Makeover planned for Hitler`s `strength through joy` complex-turned-hotel - Haaretz - Israel News

 

FlyingBombsandRockets,V1,V2,Rockets,Flying bombs.

3 People died and 17 were seriously injured in the tragedy which reduced rows of houses to the apperance of a battle field.

 

'Lucky' Stebondale Street on Isle of Dogs.

A short terrace of the very very very few houses
to survive the WW2 onslaught relatively intact.


Equally fortunate was 'Lucky' Poplar, the bus garage

"Poplar depot inspector John Hooke, who has worked in the depot office for more than twenty years, was often on night duty during air raids. He recalls: "We had bombs all round us. One night the gas works was ablaze and a school on the other side. On another occasion a landmine laid waste the row of cottages outside the entrance. We thought we must surely get a direct hit one day. But it never came. If you have never seen blitzed East London, even all these years afterwards, just take a walk around Poplar. Acres of cottages were rased to the ground. Yes, it was certainly "lucky Poplar" depot.
"http://www.skylineaviation.co.uk/buses/trolley.html

 

Just a couple of efforts here just to see how I do

 

Now this place has had a genuine knocking about from Bomber Command

 

great find!

there was a Freya Radar Station located there


"The body of Sgt Gibson was recovered and he was buried at Wangerooge. He was exhumed on 10 June 1942 and is now buried in the Sage War Cemetery (on the other hand, RAF Bomber Command Losses 1942 says that Gibson was buried on 10 June 1942 at Wangerooge and later transferred to the Sage War Cemetery)"
BBC - WW2 People's War - RAF Career of Cecil de Courcy - A Story About Hampden Bombers


Wangerooge. Bomb crater. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Now this place has had a genuine knocking about from Bomber Command

 

night of the long knives



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