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11-10-2006, 12:59 AM
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| I Like Tanks   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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  | Re: Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects Lorient Uboat pens?: 47°43'39.14"N 3°22'2.93"W Roof construction looks right. U995 near Kiel (and KM monument?): 54°24'44.10"N 10°13'46.90"E Can't find the Pens there though. How many subs is that now? |
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11-10-2006, 01:04 AM
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| Grumpy Old Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Re: Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects Suda Bay Cemetery Crete. Attachment 617 |
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11-10-2006, 01:06 AM
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| Grumpy Old Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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| Re: Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects Quote:
Not as good as HMS Victory though.  This will be the Mohne dam won't it? Attachment 618 | |
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11-10-2006, 01:16 AM
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| I Like Tanks Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| Re: Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects Quote:
 HMS Victory: 50°48'6.18"N 1° 6'34.31"W Oldest commissioned ship? (My Favourite, The Warrior lies close-by 50°47'53.96"N 1° 6'31.80"W) | |
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11-10-2006, 04:50 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Re: Google Earth Lancaster Quote:
Imagine what definition the US security agencies have!
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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11-10-2006, 09:22 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Alabama via Grantham Lincolnshire
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| Re: Google Earth Lancaster Quote:
My understanding is they can see and read number plates on cars. That has always puzzled me as the view is downwards, not sideways! Uncle Sam is watching you! | |
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11-10-2006, 10:51 AM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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| Re: Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects Question! Whats the best settings to have for Google Earth? As I'm unable to few anything in close up, due to it being too blured. 
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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11-10-2006, 11:24 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Alabama via Grantham Lincolnshire
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11-10-2006, 11:29 AM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Re: Google Earth - WW2 Artifacts and other Related Objects Quote:
I can see my mates house and back yard clearly however mine is blurred and he is only 15kms away.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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