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Post subject: Forumini'09 Creativity: Challenge #6 of 10 (Deadline 14 Jun)
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Google earth AAM/WAS/WW2 spotting
Use google earth to find something related to World War 2 or AAM or WAS. Take a screenshot and post it here. Also, write down a brief description or story to explain what we see and maybe a small photo that is not satellite.
If you don't know how to take a screenshot, it's print-screen and then paste in a graphics program, such as Gimp/Photoshop/Paint ... Then either attach it in your post or use photobucket. If you still can't make it, then send me (or your favourite mod) the exact coordinates long before the deadline and we'll post it for you.
Obviously you can use any other Google Earth equivalent if you want. E.g. MSN virtual earth / google maps etc. In my entry below I used google maps and their "embed" option (on the right of the map).
Deadline: 14 June 2009, 23.59 US Pacific Time
(You can change your entry until the deadline)
Then, we will vote for the coolest entry. The scores for every creativity challenge is:
1st 10 pts, 2nd 8, 3rd 7, 4th 6, 5th 4, 6th 3, 7th 2, 8th 1
Post here your entries or clarification questions. Not comments about other people's entries.
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ND wrote: Use google earth to find something related to World War 2 or AAM or WAS.
Could you give me an example of something that is related to AAM and could be visible from satellite? What is the correct interpretation of this?
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hope I guess it right how to participate in this contest:
The remains of the western bridgehead of the Railway bridge across the Rhine near Remagen named after the WW1 general Erich Ludendorff.
Planned for the Schlieffen strategie with two similar bridges across the river Rhine near Rüdesheim and Koblenz to connect the strategic railroads that are needed to supply the German army that operate against France. Only the Rüdesheim bridge construction are started in peacetime 1913 and was named after the famous field marshal Hindenburg,the others are started in 1916.
As the bridges are finished the world war one was already over and saw only a lot defeated German troops that retreat from the western front.
In the inter war times all bridges saw nearly no public traffic on them combined with a few freight trains.
World war two give them the traffic that they are planned for.
Captured by the spearhead of the 9th Tank Division at march 7th 1945 the Ludendorff Bridge collapses itself at march 17th due to heavy combat damage and partial self destruction charge blast damage.
28 US soldiers die through the collapse and 95 are injured. 18 of the dead men are never found after that accident.
Seizing that bridge let the US Army establish the urgently needed bridgehead of the eastern bank of the Rhine river and lead into the Ruhr encircling a few months later.
Only the bridge near Koblenz was rebuild after the war
Several movies made the Remagen bridge as core of their story.
The western bridgehead in the early 1950´s
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| RedBaron wrote: |
Could you give me an example of something that is related to AAM and could be visible from satellite? What is the correct interpretation of this? |
I'm afraid that for fairness I can't give examples, but use your imagination. The subject is open to interpretation.
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Churchill
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I think he means;sorry to give an example; but get a picute of something like Normandy beaches, which is related to AAM/WAS/WW2
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| Tue May 26, 2009 10:14 pm |
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Yes I got that, but the statement is like this: something related to WW2 OR AAM. Since AAM it's about WW2 more or less I was puzzled about this, thought maybe the part with "AAM" is about something else that I wasn't following.
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| acs0424 wrote: | | I think he means;sorry to give an example; but get a picute of something like Normandy beaches, which is related to AAM/WAS/WW2 |
No, it's not that specific. The subject is really open. I mean really open. As long as there is some connection specifically with AAM and WAS or simply with WW2.
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| Wed May 27, 2009 9:12 am |
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I hope you don't mind my taking part in this challenge, as I found it irresistible  .
An Amphibious Type 2 Ka-Mi tank on Palau (from the battle of Peleliu).
When the Shermans landed it was only a matter of minutes for all Japanese tanks to be destroyed. The island is a goldmine for WW2 archaeologists.
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no plz join in :0
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HERE SHOULD BE A PIC OF THE GRAF SPEE - I mean the place where she sunk, but was not able to make it visibly 
http://wikimapia.org/2239690/Wreck-of-Admiral-Graf-Spee
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The Admiral Graf Spee was one of the most famous German naval warships of World War II, along with the Bismarck. Her size was limited to that of a cruiser by the Treaty of Versailles, but she was as heavily armed as a small battleship due to innovative weight-saving techniques employed in her construction.
She was sent to the Atlantic Ocean as a commerce raider in 1939, where she sank nine Allied merchant ships. Numerous British hunting groups were assigned to find her, with three British ships finally tracking her down in December 1939. The Battle of the River Plate ensued, during which the Graf Spee was damaged. She docked for repairs in the neutral port of Montevideo, but was forced by international law to leave within 72 hours. Faced with what he believed to be overwhelming odds, the captain scuttled his ship rather than risk the lives of his crew.
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Richter von Manthofen, are you sure that's the exact location? I can't see it.
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It should be there just under the waves 
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| Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:30 pm |
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It's not mentioned in the rules, but it's implied that whatever we depict must be visible.
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I can see it, somewhere in that outlined white box.
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| Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:18 am |
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The folloying entry is by VonPickles:
Prinz Eugen
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Yes thats the exact location of the Graff Spee. I see the upper mast like 4 times a week whenever theres low tide on my way to work.
The problem with it is that the River Plate is muddy, so muddy that the entire ship is covered in it. When the Deutsch Embassy and the Navy retrieved one of the main guns back in 97 htey lost the ship for an hour, it was 20 meters away. Underwater visibility: no more than 1 meter.
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Whats with the Blanks?
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| Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:36 pm |
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Javascript problem I guess. It will be fixed during the voting.
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Post subject: The beginning and the end
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The USS Arizona memorial is seen in the top left of the photo. The top of barbette #2 can be seen just to the side of the memorial. On 7 December 1941, the USS Arizona was among the first ships sunk by Japanese forces.
On 2 September 2945, the USS Missouri was the site of the official Japanese surrender. Representatives from the U.S., China, U.K., Australia, and other allies were present to witness the end of the Second World War.
The USS Missouri now stands watch over her fallen sister at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii. If you're ever in Hawaii, I highly recommend taking the tour of the ship. |
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Post subject: Something to remind us of this coming Saturday 6th June
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June 6th 1944 second front opens and The Western allies have the task of getting as much men and material into the theatre of operation as quickly as possible. To disembark all this war material they needed to capture a harbour...or did they....
Solution -make your own Harbours from massive floating concrete blocks, drag them to Normandy and sink them to form an artifical Mulberry Harbour. Complete with road ways and 2 level off loading of deep water transports.
By 9 June, just 3 days after D-Day, two harbours codenamed Mulberry 'A' and 'B' were constructed at Omaha Beach and Arromanches, respectively. However, a large storm on 19 June destroyed the American harbour at Omaha, leaving only the British harbour which came to be known as Port Winston at Arromanches. While the harbour at Omaha was destroyed sooner than expected (due to it not being securely anchored to the sea bed), Port Winston saw heavy use for 8 months—despite being designed to last only 3 months. In the 10 months after D-Day, it was used to land over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tonnes of supplies providing much needed reinforcements in France.
Google earth image
Birds eye image June 9th+?
Ground level remains of casement block present day
Sea level image of pontoon road leading to a casement from 1944
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