Fliegerhorst Twente – Twente, Netherlands When the Second World War broke out, the airfield was officially closed in 1940 and the hangar blown … Posted May 9, 2021 (updated October 31, 2023) by Patrick
Fliegerhorst Venlo – Yankee 55 – The Netherlands Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 or I./NJG 1 was stationed on this Luftwaffe base, not only Night fighters were stationed here. … Posted November 3, 2020 (updated October 31, 2023) by Patrick
Hexengrund – Torpedo test facility Gdynia – Poland Grey concrete buildings rise out the sea in the Gulf of Danzig, at first glance it looks like … Posted May 4, 2020 (updated June 14, 2023) by Patrick
National Filling Factory No.1 also known as Barnbow National Filling Factory No.1, also known as Barnbow, was a First World War munitions factory located at Cross … Posted March 12, 2018 (updated February 1, 2022) by Patrick
Project Riese, Dynamit Nobel AG, Mölke – Ludwikowice Kłodzkie, Poland Near the towns of Ludwikowice Kłodzkie and Miłków in Poland lie the remains of the Dynamit Nobel A.G. … Posted October 15, 2016 (updated August 6, 2022) by Patrick
Project Riese – Rzeczka, Dorfbach – Owl Mountains, Walim Poland Construction on Project Riese and Rzeczka started in 1943 and the Germans kept on digging until the Russian … Posted September 25, 2016 (updated August 6, 2022) by Patrick
Fontana Dam, North Carolina United States of America Beginning just after WW1, there was an American congressional effort to encourage industrial development in places like Eastern … Posted March 18, 2016 (updated February 14, 2022) by Patrick
A Bailey Bridge along the Hoeksebaan – Hook of Holland, Netherlands This Bailey bridge lies in between the former positions of Widerstandsnest 31H and Widerstandsnest 32H along the former … Posted February 15, 2016 (updated October 5, 2022) by Pascal
Zis-5 plant in the UralAZ factory in Miass, Ural Russia Miass has the UralAZ factory, a truck plant with the same name as the mountain ridge. The Zis-5 … Posted December 8, 2015 (updated February 27, 2023) by Patrick
Project Riese – Osówka, Säuferhöhen – Owl Mountains, Walbrzych Poland In 1943 Minister of Armament and War Production Albert Speer, started, to talk about project Riese with the … Posted December 6, 2015 (updated August 11, 2022) by Patrick
Tankograd, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in Oblast Chelyabinsk, Russia Челябинский тракторный завод (ЧТЗ) or phonetic "Chelyabinskiy traktornyy zavod" (ChTZ), is the full name of the tractor plant … Posted July 10, 2014 (updated November 6, 2023) by Patrick
La Coupole V-2 museum – Helfaut-Wizernes, France This is one of the "Sonderbauten" which was planned to be built by organisation Todt between 1943 and … Posted September 7, 2013 (updated February 12, 2023) by Pascal
Das Sauerstoffwerk II – Peenemünde, Mecklenburg – Vorpommern, Germany In November 1938 Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch gave the green light for further development of the Peenemünde rocket … Posted November 20, 2012 (updated May 29, 2023) by Pascal
Historisch- Technisches Museum Peenemünde, Germany The Historisches Technisches Museum Peenemünde Im Kraftwerk is largely situated on the grounds of the power plant of … Posted October 7, 2012 (updated May 29, 2023) by Pascal
V1 Katapult Prüfstände – Peenemünde, Mecklenburg – Vorpommern, Germany On June 1942, Hitler personally decided that both the V1 and V2 projects were of equal importance and … Posted September 27, 2012 (updated May 29, 2023) by Pascal
Prüfstand VII, Peenemünde, Mecklenburg – Vorpommern, Germany On the 3rd of October 1942, for the first time in human history, a ballistic missile, the A4 … Posted September 11, 2012 (updated May 29, 2023) by Pascal
Weingut 1 – Me 262 Factory – Mühldorfer Hart, Bavaria, Germany Due to the effective bombardments of the Allied forces on infrastructure and war industry, Germany was forced to … Posted June 28, 2012 (updated May 30, 2023) by Patrick
The Last German Surrender – Svalbard / Spitsbergen, Norway World War Two ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of the German high command on May 7th, … Posted May 10, 2012 (updated June 14, 2023) by Patrick
