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RAF. On April 24, 1944, 234 Lancasters and 16 Mosquito aircraft from the RAF attacked Munich. It was a devastating and concentrated attack, and around 80% of the buildings in the target area were destroyed. [4] The attack was noted for a new method of target marking at low level from 700 feet. Karlsruhe, further to the north-west, was also ...
Reinhard Heydrich (DOW) Date. 27 May 1942; 82 years ago (1942-05-27) Executed by. Jozef Gabčík, Jan Kubiš. Outcome. Heydrich succumbs to wounds on 4 June; Nazis order reprisals. Assassins killed in firefight at St Cyril and Methodius Cathedral. Bishop Gorazd and church priests arrested and executed.
MapQuest. Screenshot of MapQuest in use on a web browser. MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps. [2][3]
Ireland: "Position Images" was the world's first "Street View"-style service and was launched in 2001. [26] Italy: Italiaonline company runs an online map service Tuttocittà which provides street views of locations across Italy. Kosovo: GjirafaPikBiz offers street view for all major locations of Kosovo.
Berlin–Munich Reichsautobahn, today's A9, southeast of Dessau, photographed in 1939. The oaks were intentionally retained in the median. The Reichsautobahn system was the beginning of the German autobahns under Nazi Germany. There had been previous plans for controlled-access highways in Germany under the Weimar Republic, and two had been ...
The Battle of Kalach[nb 1] took place between the German Sixth Army and elements of the Soviet Stalingrad Front between July 25 and August 11, 1942. The Soviets deployed the 62nd and 64th Armies in a Don River bridgehead west of Kalach with the intent of impeding the German advance on Stalingrad. In the initial period of the battle, the Germans ...
Viktor Frankl. Website. www.landsberger-zeitgeschichte.de /English /Memorial.htm. Kaufering was a system of eleven subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp which operated between 18 June 1944 and 27 April 1945 and which were located around the towns of Landsberg am Lech and Kaufering in Bavaria. Previously, Nazi Germany had deported all Jews ...
Google Maps Street View Trekker backpack being implemented on the sidewalk of the Hudson River Greenway in New York City. In late 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View, including 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) of the Australian Great Barrier Reef in 3D. The images are taken by special cameras which turn 360 degrees and take shots ...