Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects

Discussion in 'WW2 Battlefields Today' started by David Layne, Oct 9, 2006.

  1. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    Thanks Adam - glad I wasn't imagining it!
     
  2. Owen

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  3. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Ya stole my thunder, Owen, I was going to drop it here this morning. :cowboy_125:
     
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    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

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  6. stevew

    stevew Senior Member

    Paul,

    There is a small article on Wikipedia about it
     
  7. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

  8. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    Paul,

    There is a small article on Wikipedia about it

    Only just noticed that - thanks Steve, most interesting.
     
  9. Owen

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  10. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist

    Anyone know what the odd-shaped earthwork at the east end of Dumbarton is? I was looking for the remains of the Blackburn factory, and found it as I scrolled east. It looks a bit like the road sign warning of trains, but I haven't the faintest idea how to post a picture of it.
     
  11. Capt.Sensible

    Capt.Sensible Well-Known Member

    Anyone know what the odd-shaped earthwork at the east end of Dumbarton is? I was looking for the remains of the Blackburn factory, and found it as I scrolled east. It looks a bit like the road sign warning of trains, but I haven't the faintest idea how to post a picture of it.
    Have you got a grid reference or anything else to work from? H
     
  12. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist

    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?
     
  13. Capt.Sensible

    Capt.Sensible Well-Known Member

    There's a degree symbol in the MS Word Insert - Symbol menu somewhere but I don't know if that is going to work if cut and pasted into a forum message...... . If you can hang on until tomorrow I will have a look at those co-ords.

    H
     
  14. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    You don't actually need the degree symbol chaps, paste those coords in with spaces between each set of numbers and Google Earth will still take you straight there:

    55 56 08.66n 4 32 19.61w

    Looking into making a WW2talk Google overlay based on this thread, seems quite straightforward and it'd be nice to start doing the clickable links once I've worked out how properly.
     
  15. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist

    Cheers chaps; I actually meant typing the degree symbol generally, not just in Google.
    A few years back I was doing research on wartime shipping losses and remember that holding certain keys and typing '247' seemed to work. Could be wrong though.

    Adam,
    Why not contact Steve White at Online Archaeology > Home? He's done all our maps for POW camps, airfields, Roman forts etc. Might be able to give you a few tips.
     
  16. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist

    Think I'm getting the hang of this internet malarky...;)

    This is a shot of the 5.25" HAA site at Stockiemuir, just north of glasgow. Constructed c.1945, it was never used in action, but is interesting to see the way AA strategy was heading.
    There were five of these sites constructed around the Clyde, and AFAIK this is the best preserved. It was built to house five 5.25 radar-guided guns in their distinctive sycamore L-shaped emplacements. The intergral magazine was to the right of the pit, and loading was automatic. The left hand side of the building was for crew shelter, gun maintenance etc. The radar building still stands at the bottom of the oval created by the guns, and at least two of the houses at the entrance are converted from the original WO ones. The living quarters were in the field to the immediate east, but have all been cleared.
    At the time of my last successful visit (c.1991) all the gunpits and magazines were flooded. I say successful, because I tried again a couple of years ago and the owner's son more or less bodily chased me off the site.
     

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  17. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Dutch defences on the Afsluitdijk, Netherlands.
    See pages 132 & 133 of ATB Blitzkrieg In The West.
    I went over the Afsluitdijk in 1992 but didn't know about the forts.

    53° 4'24.88"N 5°19'59.02"E

    See Kazematten Museum Kornwerderzand
     
  18. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Someone put this Defence of Britain Overlay up a while back. I've been having another look and it really is superb, found a fair few local pillboxes that I'm going to have to take a shufti at:
    Google Earth Community: The Defence of Britain.

    Anyone got any more good WW2 related overlays?

    Cheers,
    Adam.
     
  20. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Somewhere on this thread I posted a small piece about my unit's billets in Carovilli.
    I can't remember if I ever posted an "update" here, apologies if I had :)

    I have recently made contact with an Italian family who came from the hill town of Carovilli where 78 Div was "snowed in" during January 1944.

    In the correspondence that we have started between us, a younger member of the family has been able to send me GOOGLE EARTH map co-ordinates and I have been able to see their actual house and locate my billets.....Oh...the wonders of the internet !. The green line shows the walk from my billets to the Fiocca house)
     

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