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24-04-2007, 10:46 AM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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  | My Moerbrugge thread http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/land-wa...ght=moerbrugge Decent GoogleEarth image now. 51° 9'36.60"N 3°15'37.87"E |
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24-04-2007, 11:07 AM
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| Great War I know. Where my Great-Uncle Dave Croker is commemorated the Arras Memorial. CWGC :: Casualty Details 50°17'15.49"N 2°45'36.84"E I've put place-mark over bay where his name is.Here are my three little 'uns in Feb 2006 on the way to Disneyland Paris, we called in to show them their Great-Great-Uncle's name. |
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24-04-2007, 11:14 AM
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| Adam, This is where your Great-Grandad's name is. Le Touret Memorial. CWGC :: Cemetery Photos 50°33'35.80"N 2°43'22.82"E (Yes, we stopped here too in Feb '06 on the way home to see another relative's name.) CWGC :: Casualty Details |
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24-04-2007, 12:07 PM
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| I love WW2 meah!!!   Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Middlesbrough, UK
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That's a massive airfield that like. I remember seeing this: 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W before so I just had to search for it. Last edited by marcus69x; 24-04-2007 at 12:10 PM. | |
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01-06-2007, 01:45 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hampshire
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| Here is my one, how would we have got by without her, RMS Queen Mary 33°45'10.54"N 118°11'23.53"W,
__________________ In memory of 1891923 Sgt Albert George Edward Mount RAFVR, 115 Squadron Bomber Command, whose Lancaster was shot down on 8th June 1944 over Montchauvet, Yvelines. |
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20-06-2007, 10:42 AM
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| Another then & now.  Photograph taken from a reconnaissance aircraft of 2nd Tactical Air Force, after an allied attack, showing a burning vehicle on the improvised bridge across the Seine at Oissel, south of Rouen, holding up a stream of traffic from the west. 49°20'12.20"N 1° 6'9.45"E |
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20-06-2007, 11:02 AM
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| Ubique  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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| Nice comparison Owen!
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20-06-2007, 11:08 AM
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| I Like Tanks   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| These deserve a separate thread Owen, you're getting some good hits.
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