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17-12-2007, 04:33 PM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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10-01-2008, 02:06 PM
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| Grumpy Old Moose  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| >> American Battle Monuments Commission 50°32'50.94"N 5°27'55.70"E ARDENNES AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL |
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10-01-2008, 04:37 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bannockburn, Scotland
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| reply Anyone know what the odd-shaped earthwork at the east end of Dumbarton is? I was looking for the remains of the Blackburn factory, and found it as I scrolled east. It looks a bit like the road sign warning of trains, but I haven't the faintest idea how to post a picture of it.
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10-01-2008, 04:59 PM
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10-01-2008, 05:27 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bannockburn, Scotland
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| reply As far as I can make out- 55 Deg 56' 08.66" N 4 Deg. 32' 19.61" W Any tips on how to type the degree symbol btw?
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10-01-2008, 05:32 PM
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| There's a degree symbol in the MS Word Insert - Symbol menu somewhere but I don't know if that is going to work if cut and pasted into a forum message...... . If you can hang on until tomorrow I will have a look at those co-ords. H |
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10-01-2008, 05:42 PM
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| I Like Tanks   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| You don't actually need the degree symbol chaps, paste those coords in with spaces between each set of numbers and Google Earth will still take you straight there: 55 56 08.66n 4 32 19.61w Looking into making a WW2talk Google overlay based on this thread, seems quite straightforward and it'd be nice to start doing the clickable links once I've worked out how properly.
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10-01-2008, 06:10 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bannockburn, Scotland
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| reply Cheers chaps; I actually meant typing the degree symbol generally, not just in Google. A few years back I was doing research on wartime shipping losses and remember that holding certain keys and typing '247' seemed to work. Could be wrong though. Adam, Why not contact Steve White at Online Archaeology > Home? He's done all our maps for POW camps, airfields, Roman forts etc. Might be able to give you a few tips.
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12-01-2008, 06:35 PM
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| reply Think I'm getting the hang of this internet malarky...  This is a shot of the 5.25" HAA site at Stockiemuir, just north of glasgow. Constructed c.1945, it was never used in action, but is interesting to see the way AA strategy was heading. There were five of these sites constructed around the Clyde, and AFAIK this is the best preserved. It was built to house five 5.25 radar-guided guns in their distinctive sycamore L-shaped emplacements. The intergral magazine was to the right of the pit, and loading was automatic. The left hand side of the building was for crew shelter, gun maintenance etc. The radar building still stands at the bottom of the oval created by the guns, and at least two of the houses at the entrance are converted from the original WO ones. The living quarters were in the field to the immediate east, but have all been cleared. At the time of my last successful visit (c.1991) all the gunpits and magazines were flooded. I say successful, because I tried again a couple of years ago and the owner's son more or less bodily chased me off the site.
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14-01-2008, 01:15 PM
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| Grumpy Old Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Dutch defences on the Afsluitdijk, Netherlands. See pages 132 & 133 of ATB Blitzkrieg In The West. I went over the Afsluitdijk in 1992 but didn't know about the forts. 53° 4'24.88"N 5°19'59.02"E See Kazematten Museum Kornwerderzand Last edited by Owen; 14-01-2008 at 01:18 PM. |
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