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During WWII, the site is used to produce tomato ketchup for export when emperor Japanese military occupied Taiwan.
位於高雄大湖的番茄會社【大湖甘仔蜜會社】，大湖番茄會社約興建於日治時期，為當年台、日合資經營的番茄會社，當時所產製的番茄醬全部只供外銷。DSC04091
1943 Beech 18 Expeditor N9109R Magic Moonlight 43-33403 USAAF
Construction Number 4383
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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Paris' Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest train station, ground to a halt on Friday while an unexploded World War Two bomb was defused, causing the cancellation of all Eurostar trains for the day and huge disruptions to nearby traffic.
Railway workers found the 500 kilogram (1,100 lb) device 2 metres underground at around 0230 GMT in Saint-Denis, a northern Parisian suburb, during construction work on a bridge. Police say the area is known to contain "vestiges" of the war.
Une découverte inattendue. Ce vendredi 7 mars, une bombe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale a été retrouvée « au milieu des voies » sur la commune de Saint-Denis à 2,5 km de la gare du Nord de Paris. En conséquence, le trafic est interrompu à la gare du Nord, a indiqué la SNCF.
Aucun TGV, Eurostar, RER, ni TER ne circule.
reprise du traffic vers 18h
Au total, les perturbations ont touché "500 trains"
et "600. 000 personnes",
L’interruption du trafic a été décidée « à la demande de la préfecture de police de Paris » après la découverte de la bombe « non explosée » dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi « lors de travaux réalisés en amont de Paris gare du Nord », explique la société ferroviaire dans un communiqué transmis à l’AFP. Elle mesure un mètre et pèse 500 kg.
un quart du milliard d’obus largué pendant la Première Guerre mondiale n’a pas explosé. Le chiffre est de 15 % pour les 600 000 tonnes de bombes utilisées lors du second conflit mondial. Ces explosifs sont peut-être vieux d’au moins 80 ans, mais ils n’en sont pas moins dangereux.
Rien qu'en 2023, le service de déminage de la Sécurité civile a réalisé près de 13 000 interventions pour des munitions des deux guerres mondiales.
Originally a mobile museum visiting schools delivering our unique and highly acclaimed teaching of life at home during WW2, we opened the doors to our static museum in August 2017 - and have been adding to our comprehensive range of exhibits ever since.
here they are! my WWII mechanics. I did the same style photo as my WWII tank crew figs. mainly because I like the style haha.
Vickers RAF Supermarine Spitfire FR XVIIIe SM845 G-BUOS
This spitfire is an early production Mk XVIII Spitfire built at Chattis Hill in 1945. She was delivered to RAF 39 MU Maintenance Unit
Battle of Britain Airshow Duxford 2019
Photo taken at Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire UK
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1940's Chevy and bus trailer. These trailers were old car carriers that were converted to transport War Workers.
Please Join WWII Archaeology my new group.
Oil supply vessels anchored in the bay looking South toward Balmedie and Aberdeen. There is quite a lot of WWII archaeology here and in the dunes behind, including a large pill box and a temporary metal roadway, plus what appears to be bases of a radar station. Also it appears one pill box has been destroyed as there is a lot of brick debris around just behind these tank traps.
I went to the WWII memorial this morning hoping for a different image. The fountains didn’t come on until about 15 minutes after sunrise.
Hoek van Holland is an amazing place which you have to visit every now and then. Today we explored HvH!
WWII weekend, Jefferson Barracks. St. Louis, Mo. German reenactor kick starting his four-stroke motorcycle.
The museum features a decent-sized display discussing Packard's switch to military production during the second World War.
WWII Memorial. Washington D.C. Photo by John Lishamer Photography (www.johnlishamer.com) All Rights Reserved. Nikon F3. Nikkor 24mm f2.8 ais. Fuji Neopan 400 @1600 (expired). Rodinal.
With Dunstanbrough castle in the background
North sea coastal defences .In 1940 a network of defences was hastily built all over the British Isles to prevent an anticipated German invasion. The most common of these defences were called “pillboxes”, squat concrete forts that were sited at road junctions, canals and other strategic points.
With the passage of time it is estimated that less than 6,000 of a total of 28,000 pillboxes built still survive. They remain as permanent monuments and a silent tribute to the courage and tenacity of the British people during the dark days of 1940 when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany.
This site attempts to show some of what still remains today.
Click here to visit the old site
UK WWII Defence Locations
It is by no accident that the majority of defence structures are located where they are. With the emergency evacuation of the BEF from the beaches of Dunkirk there was an obvious and urgent need to build defences against the threat of Nazi Invasion.
The result was the construction of Stop – Lines, consisting of man made objects located to enhance the natural ‘lay of the land’.
The basic concept was detailed in a Southern Command memo dated 22nd June 1940 (public Records Office WO 199/1800) covering the construction of GHQ Zones, which stated:
“The immediate object is to divide England into several small fields surrounded by a hedge of anti-tank obstacles which is strong defensively, using natural accidents of the ground where possible. Should Armoured Fighting Vehicles attack or airborne attacks break into the enclosures the policy will be to close the gate by blocking the crossing over the obstacles and to let the ‘dogs’ in the shape of armoured formations, or other troops, to round up the cattle”
This indicates that the stop-lines were constructed to block the progress of German armoured columns, setting them up for a counter attack by our defending forces. A Stop-Line would be a continuous anti-tank obstacle, natural if possible, covered by Pillboxes and other prepared positions.
On 25th June 1940, General Paget, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Home Forces submitted General Ironside`s anti-invasion plan to the War Cabinet in the form of Home Forces Operation Instruction No.3.
SECTION 13 of the Instruction stated: “The general plan of defence is a combination of mobile columns and static defences by means of strong-points and stops. As static defence only provides limited protection of the most vulnerable points, it must be supplemented by the action of mobile columns. However mobile such columns may be they cannot be expected to operate immediately over the whole area in which it is possible for the enemy to attempt invasion by sea or air. It is therefore necessary to adopt measures for confining his actions until such time as mobile columns can arrive to deal with him. This will be done by means of stops and strong-points prepared for all round defence at aerodromes which are necessary to prevent the enemy obtaining air superiority, at the main centres of communications and distributed in depth over a wide area covering London and the centres of production and supply. This system of stops and strong-points will prevent the enemy from running riot and tearing the guts out of the country as had happend in France and Belgium.”
WWII Memorial. Washington D.C.
Photo by John Lishamer Photography (www.johnlishamer.com) All Rights Reserved.
Nikon F3. Nikkor 24mm f2.8 ais. Fuji Neopan 400 @1600 (expired). Rodinal.