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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 truck at the UralAZ Factory in Miass - Russia

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 October 9, 2022) by Patrick

Tunnel complex Osowka, Project Riese near Walbrzych

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

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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 February 14, 2022) by Patrick

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La Coupole V2 museum near Helfaut, 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 14, 2022) by Pascal


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V3 Test Ramps at former Laatziger Ablage, Misdroy – Zalesie, Poland

The development of the V-3 weapon, was yet another Third Reich Vengeance project aiming to unleish it's reign …

Posted March 27, 2013 (updated June 27, 2022) by Pascal

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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 February 14, 2022) by Pascal

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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 February 12, 2022) by Pascal

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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 February 14, 2022) by Pascal

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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 February 14, 2022) by Pascal

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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 January 22, 2023) by Patrick

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