Conquered Europe or Wehrmacht - foreign tourists. photos to ID

Discussion in 'WW2 Battlefields Today' started by raut, Jul 10, 2021.

  1. raut

    raut Active Member

    I was right, we were still able to unravel this photo.Many thanks to everyone for their help.
    I have a saying in my homeland."Together it is easy to beat the father".
    Yes, it looks like this is the Station Bridge over the Oder to Stettin.
    Friends, I appeal to those who like my topic.Thank you for your support and kind words addressed to me.I will lead this topic and whoever does not like it, let it pass by.
     
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  2. raut

    raut Active Member

    So, let's keep moving. 4.JPG 5.JPG On the back there is an inscription, perhaps it is a clue.
     
  3. Owen

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  4. raut

    raut Active Member

    OK! 6.JPG Since we have touched on the topic of bridges, maybe this photo will also be easy?
     
  5. raut

    raut Active Member

    I tried to increase it.Hope this helps. DSC07859.JPG DSC07860.JPG
     
  6. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Cribbing doesn't look like anything the allies did. Maybe pre-liberation/occupation?
     
  7. stolpi

    stolpi Well-Known Member

    Looks French to me ... and are there two bridges next to each other? With this picture taken from another bridge? There is a railing visible on the first photo.
     
  8. Owen

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    I agree it looks like some of the Loire bridges.
    There is one with a canal aquaduct near it but I discounted it. River looked too wide with the modern road bridge there.
     
  9. Not as easy as it looks at first sight...
    Dozens of bridges all over France were blown on 1940, many of a design similar to this one. It does appear to be an aquaduct (see the replacement tubing on the cribbing, the tubing on the left apparently coming from the bridge, the narrowness of the bridge and the low parapet, devoid of railings).
    Small too, with only 3 arches?
    As noticed by stolpi, there must be a second bridge from which the photo was shot.
     
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  10. Owen

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    raut , where have you gone ?
    Got anymore that we can look at ?
     
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  11. raut

    raut Active Member

    Dear friends, I thought that in the summer, during the vacation season, interest in this topic has disappeared.Now I understand that I was mistaken.
    What a cathedral, where is it? 8.jpg
     
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  12. papiermache

    papiermache Well-Known Member

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  13. Owen

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    I don't think it's Strasbourg.
    That arched doorway to the left doesn't look right nor do the pillars of the buttresses.
     
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  14. raut

    raut Active Member

    Owen I am of the same opinion.The cathedral is similar, but many details indicate that this is still not it.First of all, the arched opening and framing on the windows are indicated by arrows. 8.jpg
     
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  15. Owen

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  16. papiermache

    papiermache Well-Known Member

    Oh dear... egg on face. Well spotted, Owen and raut.

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    " Outside the Oliver Cromwell last Saturday night
    I was one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.

    I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit
    One of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit"

    Someone can explain that misuse of a Marie Lloyd song to our Honourable Question Master.

    Excellent postcards to be found at the Calvados archives, lots of pictures of Caen, for example:

    https://archives.calvados.fr/ark:/52329/lfx7tpkr8h4w/b03faa35-a92f-4f8c-9562-69d9a6e0694b

    https://archives.calvados.fr/ark:/52329/lfx7tpkr8h4w/eed7fa05-08bc-41cc-9cb7-58e8d711fb49


    https://archives.calvados.fr/ark:/52329/7jq1g08ts3ld/0fdc4fe5-760e-4e64-993f-f873968f5638
     
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  17. raut

    raut Active Member

    Friends, I want to thank everyone for their help in identifying the photo.Definitely a special thanks Owen.The definition of the Cathedral of St. Peter in Kan is his victory.
    Let's move on.Here is a very difficult photo.Calculation of the German 88-mm Flak cannon.
    What is this building in the background and where is it? DSC07361.JPG
     
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  18. papiermache

    papiermache Well-Known Member

    Cement works for the Atlantic Wall ?

     
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  19. raut,

    You said these photos are from your personal collection. What do you mean by that exactly? Did you purchase them or how did you get them? Were they all shot by the same person? Do you know who thz photographer(s) is/are? Some details about their origin should be useful in trying to identify the locations (I think it's what they call "metadata" :))
    Otherwise we're just groping in the dark, except for the (not so) obvious city shots.
     
  20. raut

    raut Active Member

    I have a question for you.Why are you spoiling the topic?Create your own theme and fill it with videos about cement plants as much as you want.
     

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