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In Oslo, the steel plates from Tirpitz continue to be a part of everyday life, you can walk and drive over them. The city's Agency for Water and Sewerage Works acquired a substantial amount of steel from Tirpitz. These steel plates are still in use today, serving as covers for trenches and holes in the streets.
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Not the ship herself but found it interesting
In Oslo, the steel plates from Tirpitz continue to be a part of everyday life, you can walk and drive over them. The city's Agency for Water and Sewerage Works acquired a substantial amount of steel from Tirpitz. These steel plates are still in use today, serving as covers for trenches and holes in the streets.
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Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft from No 111 Squadron RAF, based at RAF Northolt, in flight formation during World War II, circa 1940. The Hawker Hurricane, designed by Sydney Camm, was the first monoplane fighter to exceed 300 mph and was first used by Britain's Royal Air Force in 1937, becoming at the time of the Battle of Britain the mainstay of Britain's fighter air defence.
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A patrol crawling forward during the attack on the German trenches at Beaumont Hamel, 1st July 1916. The slope of the defenders' hill is clearly visible.
The mine under German front line positions at Hawthorn Redoubt is fired 10 minutes before the assault at Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. 45,000 pounds of Ammonal exploded. The mine caused a crater 130 feet across by 58 feet deep
7:45 am, 16th Battalion (Public Schools), Middlesex Regiment (29th Division) retiring after having reached the crater on Hawthorn Ridge
The mine under German front line positions at Hawthorn Redoubt is fired 10 minutes before the assault at Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. 45,000 pounds of Ammonal exploded. The mine caused a crater 130 feet across by 58 feet deep
7:45 am, 16th Battalion (Public Schools), Middlesex Regiment (29th Division) retiring after having reached the crater on Hawthorn Ridge
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Local children hitch a ride on a Sherman tank of 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) in Belpasso near Catania, Sicily, August 1943. In the background can be seen the church of Saint Anthony of Padua.
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The German training ship (Segelschulschiff) Horst Wessel greeted as it passed by the U749 at the end of 1943, logically in the Baltic Sea. We see that the submarine has a yellow band painted on the turret breakwater and another on the bow deck, which tells us that it is on a training mission (Ausbildungsboot). Germany had four training ships (plus the "Mircea" which it built for Romania): the "Niobe", the Gorch Fock" (later Tovarich in the Soviet Navy), Host Wessel (later "Eagle" in the USCGC) and the "Albert Leo Schlageter" (later "Guanabara" in Brazil and "Sagres" in Portugal).
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