Victorian Forts and Artillery:United Kingdom Fort Data Sheets and Google Earth files. Fort Data sheets and Google Earth files The sheets are listed below. Some are linked to data pages, others are in Portable Document Format which require a suitable reader. Download a suitable reader from here. To make use of the Google Earth link you will need to download and install Google Earth from here. Google or Bing maps are linked to also: with some on Streetview Some links are to Flash Earth Windows Live collections of British forts can be found here: British Fortification Portsmouth British Fortification Isle of Wight British Fortification Plymouth British Fortification Milford Haven British Fortification Dover British Fortification Portland & Weymouth British Fortification Medway British Fortification Thames British Fortification Chatham British Fortifications Bristol Channel A list of forts can be found on the fort data page.
Forts that are Scheduled Ancient Monuments If you require information on any other fort then contact the webmaster. The PDF Datasheets are constantly updated. The Denge Sound Mirrors: Radar’s Predecessor. Before the application of radar became a reality a number of experimental early warning systems were developed by the British military. One which showed the most promise – as it actually worked – were the acoustic mirrors built at Denge on the south coast of England.
Quickly superseded by radar they were abandoned but still remain at their post, obsolete concrete leviathans on an island in the middle of a nature reserve, reminders of a dangerous time in European history. The mirror would pick up the sound of any aircraft approaching the coast of the UK. If they were not scheduled (and flights in and out of the country were closely monitored) then they could be judged as possibly being enemy aircraft. The acoustic mirrors were developed by Dr William Sansome Tucker who built a number of installations along the coast, of which the Denge mirrors are by far the best preserved. The long mirror was complete by 1930. This was a problem. War came to Great Britain in 1939. Found after 70 years: Divers discover wreckage of Second World War 'Giant' German transport plane which was shot down by British fighter while flying from base in Sardinia. Wartime transport plane found 200ft underwater off Sardinian coast 69 years after it was shot from the skiesDivers and experts herald discovery of 'great historical importance'Messerschmitt 323 was used by Germans to transport tanks and artillery to battlefields during Second World WarSmall team of Italian divers found wreckage while searching for different plane in Sardinia By Chris Parsons Published: 12:08 GMT, 14 September 2012 | Updated: 17:29 GMT, 3 October 2012 It was the 'Giant' German aircraft shot from the skies while delivering tanks and weaponry to the battlefield during the Second World War.
Now nearly 70 years after being shot down by a British fighter, experts have found the only surviving example of the Messerschmitt 323 'Gigant' transport plane, 200ft underwater off the coast of Sardinia. Wreckage: The rusting wreck of the Messerschmitt 323 was found by a small team of Italian divers off the Sardinian coast CAPACITY: 130 troops/10-12 tonnes of equipment WINGSPAN: 55.2m (181ft) 15 Star-Shaped Forts From Around the World. Titan Missile Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
Unknown Fields (UF) is a design studio, originating in London’s Architectural Association, that "ventures out on annual expeditions to the ends of the earth exploring unreal and forgotten landscapes, alien terrains and obsolete ecologies. " Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men and publisher of Strange Attractor, has just led this busload of architects, writers, filmmakers and artists in an exploration of the mythic landscape of the American Southwest, and the stories that it has inspired.
Their trajectory took them from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque New Mexico to Black Rock City, Nevada, via sites of military, architectural and folkloric significance. Mark sent us occasional postcards from the edge. - David Pescovitz The Titan Missile Museum, Tucson, Arizona Fifteen miles south of Tucson, 140 feet underground, stands a monumental testament to the apocalyptic technology of the Cold War. Bunker di Roma. 'Bruce' - hypervelocity gun at St. Margaret's, near Dover. “The Bunkers” – France | Pridian.net.
“Is that a tank…?” “…ah, yeah, it’s a tank…” The sort of words you only imagine hearing while exploring an abandoned bunker… Enjoy. For obvious reasons, I’m going to be vague about the whereabouts of this bunker, sorry if you are genuinely interested in the history. This former stone quarry has a long history of use as a military bunker, we know it was used during both WW1 and WW2. The most recent owners moving out sometime in the late 70′s. German 77mm Model-1896 WW1 cannon Finding something like this has been a dream for a long time, two WW1 vintage canons carelessly bulldozed into a corner. The former quarry is extensive, and until recently a small part was used for commercial cultivation of mushrooms. The ‘crew’ in the main emergency exit stairway of the bunker. It is sad these vehicles have been abandoned here, in the constantly wet environment of the quarry they will be nothing more than piles of rust in 10 years.
Thanks again to Gilles and JPG. Inside Russia's Nuclear-powered Typhoon-class Submarine, TK-20 Severstal 01 0f 05. World War One Color Photos - Color Photos from World War I. The heroic sewer rats of the Somme: Truly humbling stories of the horrors of tunnel warfare 80ft underground as seen in BBC1's Birdsong. By Tony Rennell Updated: 11:52 GMT, 26 January 2012 The new BBC TV adaptation of Birdsong - starring Clemence Poesy as Isabelle Azaire and Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford - depicts the horrors of tunnel warfare in World War I The weary soldier in the World War I trenches of northern France left his own poignant memento for posterity.
‘If in this place you are detained,’ he scratched on a wall, a labour of love that must have taken him days if not weeks, ‘don’t look around you all in vain/ But cast your net and ye shall find/ That every cloud is silver-lined.’ What was remarkable about such a hope-filled message was that the unknown man who left it spent his military service deprived of sky and clouds, silver-lined or otherwise. He fought his war underground, in stifling heat and near-darkness pierced only by candlelight. Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford depicting life as a soldier in World War I in the BBC TV adaptation of Birdsong Considering their options. Burlington Bunker - Corsham, Wiltshire | Britain's Subterranean City. Wiltshire - Wiltshire's Underground City - Burlington.
World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus. Mysteries of a Nazi Photo Album. Wednesday | Updated Readers of Lens and EinesTages quickly figured out that the photographer was Franz Krieger. (“World War II Mystery Solved in a Few Hours.”) And that his wife and children did not survive the war. Lens has shared this story with Der Spiegel, the leading German newsweekly, and Spiegel Online, its Web edition. We hope readers of Spiegel’s EinesTages site (Once Upon a Time) can help solve a 70-year-old mystery: Who created this photo album of the Eastern Front? Lens hat Spiegel Online bei dieser Geschichte um Unterstützung gebeten. There are certainly many photo albums of Nazi leaders and many photo albums of the Nazis’ victims. At least one does, however, and it has surfaced in New York City. Two pages in this album, on the Eastern Front in 1941, are devoted to prisoners. Four pages later, there is Hitler himself, waiting at a train station for the arrival of Adm.
Clearly, this photographer had a lot of access — and not a little talent. But who was he? Ogefr. Dr. Ogefr. World War II: Before the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus. The years leading up to the declaration of war between the Axis and Allied powers in 1939 were tumultuous times for people across the globe. The Great Depression had started a decade before, leaving much of the world unemployed and desperate. Nationalism was sweeping through Germany, and it chafed against the punitive measures of the Versailles Treaty that had ended World War I.
China and the Empire of Japan had been at war since Japanese troops invaded Manchuria in 1931. Germany, Italy, and Japan were testing the newly founded League of Nations with multiple invasions and occupations of nearby countries, and felt emboldened when they encountered no meaningful consequences. The Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, becoming a rehearsal of sorts for the upcoming World War -- Germany and Italy supported the nationalist rebels led by General Francisco Franco, and some 40,000 foreign nationals traveled to Spain to fight in what they saw as the larger war against fascism. Click to view image. 1756-1761. Virtual Aircraft Museum.
London at war. Jonathan Andrew Photography - Award Winning Location Photography. Dieppe. Czechoslovakian fortification system 1935-38. Some pics and short info about Czechoslovak 'Maginot line' In 1933 Adolf Hitler won the elections in Germany. The young Czechoslovakia had to secure its borders against a surprise German attack. There were two concepts how to do it. The first one -build large mobile army, and the second oone -build border fortersses. The first one had a big disadvantage. Czechoslovakia was too small to build a mobile army powerful enough to stop the bigger German army. However the second one also had disadvantages. Czechoslovakian forts after 1939: After Germany occupied the Czech republic (Slovakia became "independent"),the German army tested the resistance of the forts.
v2. V1. Belgian forts. Verdun.pdf (application/pdf Object) Thionvliie German forts. Maginot line.