Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects

CALAIS CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, LEUBRINGHEN

50°51'41.32"N 1°44'20.47"E

 

Another then & now.


Photograph taken from a reconnaissance aircraft of 2nd Tactical Air Force, after an allied attack, showing a burning vehicle on the improvised bridge across the Seine at Oissel, south of Rouen, holding up a stream of traffic from the west.


49°20'12.20"N 1° 6'9.45"E

 

These deserve a separate thread Owen, you're getting some good hits.

 

I've got a Seine thing going on.
From The Canadian Battlefields in Normandy by Copp & Bechthold page 132.
The Seine at Port du Gravier original photo from here.
Archives - LCMSDS
LCMSDS Air Photo 71/3427.
Then GE co-ords 49°18'36.74"N 0°59'55.96"E

 

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High-level oblique aerial photograph taken from a Bristol Blenheim of No. 107 Squadron RAF, showing a German motorised column of 89 vehicles on the Cambrai-Arras road, entering Vis-en-Artois (bottom) from the east. The village of Haucourt is on the left.





The co-ords 50°14'45.64"N 2°57'0.20"E will take you to the Great War
VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT
CWGC :: Cemetery Details see blue dot on GE image , easily seen on IWM image too.

 

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Vertical night aerial photograph taken during a raid on Berlin, showing bombs exploding in the vicinity of the central cattle-market and railway yard (middle right), east of the city centre. The broad wavy lines are the tracks of German searchlights and anti-aircraft fire can also be seen. Also illuminated by the flash-bomb in the lower half of the photograph are the Friedrichshain gardens and sports stadium, St Georgs Kirchhof and Balten Platz. A mixed force of 49 aircraft took part in the raid, of which 5 were lost.


I've put the placemark co-ords on the traffic island lower right of photo

52°31'6.33"N 13°27'11.99"E

 

Almost the same view but not quite.

B 10148

Bedford MWD trucks and other vehicles of the 4th Wiltshire Regiment, 43rd Division, in Valkenswaard, 21 September 1944.


51°20'57.03"N 5°27'29.01"E

Then rotate GE image by 180 degrees so church is at the top then it will be a Now of the Then IWM photo

 

From a heads up on a.n.other forum:
Check out this rare Californian example of Werner von Brauns postwar influence outside of the space program .

32°40'33.90"N 117°09'28.5"W

 

Another swastika building in Munich.

48° 9'51.74"N 11°31'2.57"E

From here, Nazi Eagles
Munich -- "Hakenkreuzhaus" - in 1934 an existing building at Hanfstaenglstraße 16-20 was converted to a swastika shape, which is still plainly visible from the air. (The original Munich "Hakenkreuzhaus" at Donaustraße 25-31 was rebuilt to a different configuration after the war.) (image from Google Earth)

 

That would be the Zernikow arboreal swastika Paul, no urban myth but mostly chainsawed away between 1995 & 2000:


There is another (perhaps Poland?) that is nowhere near as clear, I think it might have been listed on here somewhere. There's a few Iron crosses too, but the Zernikow one was the clearest by far.

Cheers,
Adam