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The gun Bruce manned by the Royal Marines was not a railway gun, it was a 13.5/8-inch, an experimental HP gun.
'Bruce' - hypervelocity gun at St. Margaret's, near Dover
“The Bunkers” – France | Pridian.net
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.
World War One Color Photos - Color Photos from World War I
Sometime in late 2004, while looking at the blog, Vodkapundit – a great blog, btw – I came across an external link he had to some interesting photos of World War I. What made them of interest was that they were in color! I saved them to my hard drive, and I’m glad I did... the site that had them up ended up removing them. So I decided to go looking for others on the web.
The heroic sewer rats of the Somme: Truly humbling stories of the horrors of tunnel warfare 80ft underground as seen in BBC1's Birdsong | Mail Online
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.Burlington Bunker - Corsham, Wiltshire | Britain's Subterranean City
Burlington - Corsham, Wiltshire The former emergency relocations site for the British government in the event of nuclear attack, the site has been abandoned since the 1980s since which time it has been kept as a decoy site until it's declassification at the end of 2004. Burlington has had many code names since it's conception in the early 50s, these include Stockwell, Subterfuge, Turnstile and more recently Site 3.
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25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future | Crack Two
These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place (like Tjentište, Kozara and Kadinjača), or where concentration camps stood (like Jasenovac and Niš). They were designed by different sculptors (Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, to name a few) and architects (Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković...), conveying powerful visual impact to show the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic. In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, especially young pioneers for their "patriotic education."
World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
World War II is the story of the 20th Century. The war officially lasted from 1939 until 1945, but the causes of the conflict and its horrible aftermath echoed for decades in both directions. While feats of bravery and technological breakthroughs still inspire awe today, the majority of the war was dominated by unimaginable misery and destruction. In the late 1930s, the global population stood at approximately 2 billion.
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?
Mysteries of a Nazi Photo Album - NYTimes.com
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.
World War II: Before the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
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Czechoslovakian fortification system 1935-38
Plan was to build 1276 heavy and 15463 light obejcts. Till september 1938 Czechoslovakia managed to build 226 heavy and around 10000 light objects. Light forts: The Czechoslovakian army command needed a better type of light fort, so the ingeneers designed a new type called vz.37.WW2 Radar and communications
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