Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects

i been looking at pill boxs etc around chippenham,i know all the defences,but you cannot see a thing on google earth.well concealed indeed.4th wilts.

 

Adam

Just for your further interest, in the GOOGLE EARTH image above the green line, as I've already mentioned, marks the short distance from our billets to the house of the local priest.

It was immediately outside these billets that we found ski marks one morning that had to belong to a German patrol as we certainly had no mountain troops in that area.

To quote from the story I posted onto the BBC WW2 Archives:
"Another clear memory was coming out of our billets one morning to see ski tracks of a German Patrol who had calmly come through the village and made their escape without bothering us".

Full link here:
BBC - WW2 People's War - New Years Day 1944, Snowed in at Carovilli

 

I'm currently reading Rick Atkinson's excellent work about North Africa, An Army at Dawn. His photo of the American Cemetery at Carthage piqued my interest. So I went to Google Earth, and here are the coordinates - 27 acres of tombstones.

36° 51' 57.50" N
10° 19' 45.80" E

JT

 

As far as I can make out- 55 Deg 56' 08.66" N
4 Deg. 32' 19.61" W
Any tips on how to type the degree symbol btw?

Think I've cracked this one. I believe it's the Dumbuck fuel depot just outside Dumbarton. I've seen pics on the Hidden Glasgow website.
Info is scanty but it appears to be WW2. According to the RCAHMS it was either for aviation fuel (possibly for the nearby Blackburn factory) or fuel oil for the RN.

 

Don't know if this has been posted before. It's Easy's foxholes overlooking Foy.

Panoramio - Photo of Easy foxholes

 

Does anybody know how to disable the photos on google earth? Everytime i try to zoom into something it's always covered up by hundreds of photo tags.

Anybody know how to turn them off?

 

WW2 google earth

YouTube - World War Two Google Earth

 

Nice one Adam. I'll try that later when I get home.

 

Has anyone looked at Iwo Jima? There's loads of WW2 artifacts such as a knocked out Sherman, a crashed US plane etc.

Well worth a look.

 

The Nazi rallying grounds at Nuremburg : 49°25'41.23"N 11°07'20.29"E

And not WW2 but a rather large hole in the earth at some place in Russia : 62°31'41.24"N 113°59'32.95"E

 

can't seem to locate the aircraft. someone care to walk me by the hand?

and Owen, I get an error message with the attachments.

 

Thank you, VP
All is revealed.
Did we miss the mulberry harbour parts at Arromanches? or the Merritt Bridge in Pourville? or the Queens Own Rifles house on Juno?

This is too much fun!

 

Hallo all

Has anyone found Jebel Sherif in Libya?
Jebelsherif - Home

I bet there's loads to find in the desert!

Sorry, just realised that's Kuno's book! doh!

 

50° 9'42.84"N 3° 4'17.22"E

WW1
Lock No 5, Canal Du Nord,
The Last Stand Of Company D,
13th (S) Bn, Essex Regiment
"The Hammers"