I'm out of the Army now, so no access for photos, but the building that housed my boss's office at Carver Barracks (formerly RAF Debden) was quite significantly scarred by what was variously described as shrapnel damage or spalling from cannon/machine gun fire, depending on whose version of events was to be believed. A bitter winter, typhus epidemic, and lack of supplies compounded the hellish misery for Germans and Russians alike. The list includes the Czech and Polish pilots who flew for Britain and were critical in the air that summer; a plaque in a lower corner lists the nine Americans who joined the fight. To those architects and architecture that have perished, we remember. The German Army knew an attack was coming and had prepared a 2,400-mile-long Atlantic Wall of more than six million mines, thousands of machine gun bunkers and artillery batteries, tens of thousands of tanks, hundreds of miles of barbed wire, and other obstacles, plus tens of thousands of soldiers dug into the cliffs above the landing beaches. A huge map covers one wall: look closely and youll see a swath of thousands of tiny holes making a big, arcing shape across the Atlantic Ocean, the result of the pushpins that had once been used to carefully track the hundreds of convoys that were Great Britains logistical lifeline. We remember many of the battles. This is an interesting site about stuff like that in the town I grew up in. The Americans were unprepared for the harsh winter, and they fought in the ice and snow and fog under near-constant bombardment with no gloves, the lucky ones able to wrap their feet in gunnysacks. Good evening everyone. The famous Ark Royal - from the 1970s TV series "Sailor" - ended her days there along with her sister ship Eagle and other warships of the 1950s like Bulwark, Albion and Blake. Exploring World War 2 London with children - A family day out German GeneralGotthard Heinrici summed up Berliners' feelings when he heard the Soviets, and not the Americans, would be taking the city: "This is a death sentence.". The church and the site have a history with Londons Danish community that dates back to the late 800s. key point factories were crucial to wartime production and were expected to The Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, and many others took their turns as occupying forces, the most famous attempt being the 1565 Great Siege of Malta, when 40,000 Ottomans crashed against the island for four months. Derelict London Wartime - Derelict London - Photography, Social History Today, Kiska is a part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, and special permission is needed to visit. Bomb-Damage Maps Reveal London's World War II Devastation Parts of the destruction that resulted from the fight for Berlin are still visible decades later, Fri 8 May 2020 07.00BST For a more elite view of wartime London, well next head to the Cabinet War Rooms, where Churchill and his War Cabinet met. The pictured shelters, often mistaken for outhouses, were built by York City Council under the direction of the Home Office. The underground warren of mostly small, cramped rooms is located on the opposite side of the Thames from the Imperial War Museum, under what is now the Treasury Building, and is a quick walk from the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. The Jaguar plant at Castle Bromwich still has camouflage (albeit faint) on some of the surviving assembly blocks. Picture sourced by MailOnline Travel, Images are taken from the book World War II Abandoned Places by Michael Kerrigan (ISBN 978-1-78274-549-5) published by Amber Books Ltdand available from bookshops and online booksellers (RRP 19.99). All rights reserved. These were long lines of reinforced concrete blocks, such as those pictured above, and hundreds of miles of wide deep trenches.
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