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WW2 and Google Earth

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  • 14-06-2008 9:40pm
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    marcsignal
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    There are some cool things to be found on Google Earth relating to the war, here are some sites I found, and you can view photos taken at each location. Just copy and paste the co-ordinates into the search box in Google Earth.

    51° 7'52.30"N 12°48'26.85"E = Colditz Castle POW Camp

    49°25'51.27"N 11° 7'28.15"E = Nuremberg Rally Site

    52°30'44.60"N 13°22'54.26"E = Berlin Bunker

    48°16'12.12"N 11°28'8.60"E = Dachau Concentration Camp

    48° 8'31.81"N 48° 8'31.81"N = Feldherrnhalle Munich where soldiers swore their oath to Adolf by torchlight

    50°46'4.12"N 0° 9'56.68"E = One of many former RAF WW2 Airfields

    There are loads around southern England of former RAF Airfields that are already marked into the Google Earth Database, as well as all of the recorded U-Boat sinkings and the resting place of the Bismarck

    but the best one I've seen lately (which is sadly a scam) is this one :)

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/348013/ww2_bomber_on_google_earth/

    If anyone else has any interesting WW2 related co-ordinates, post away?


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    FiSe
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    It actually was there a couple of years ago...And as one of the comments says, it's a Lancaster on it's way to one of the airshows.
    Don't know if it's still there though :o


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    marcsignal
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    Here are a few more

    49°21'22.02"N 0°37'40.79"W = Mulberry Harbours out to sea off Normandy

    47°18'43.30"N 12° 7'59.80"W = Site of 2 sunken U-Boats (You have to zoom right in before markers show up)

    48°10'14.75"N 16°10'58.78"W = Site of the wreck of The Bismarck (You have to zoom right in before marker shows up)

    16°10'58.78"W 13° 2'39.99"E = Entrance to the tunnels under the Eagles Nest (Turnstile in this guest house)

    47°38'1.02"N 47°38'1.02"N = Hitler's Berghof Site

    52°45'59.51"N 13°15'49.07"E = Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp


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