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03-10-2007, 10:09 AM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Operation Carthage - Allied - Denmark Operation Carthage: The Bombing of the Shellhouse (Gestapo Headquarters) in Copenhagen March 21, 1945. The Shellhus, or in English the Shell-building, was (and still is) situated near the centre of Copenhagen, 500 metres west of the Town hall. It is on the north side of Kampmandsgade between Nyrupsgade and Vester Farimagsgade (see map at right).Since the spring of 1944 the German secret police (Gestapo) had used it as headquarters. In the fall of 1944 several cells were established on the top floor to minimize transportation of prisoners from Vestre faengsel (a large prison in Copenhagen) to interrogation and torture in the Shellhus.  Shellhuset, circa 1940 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1050213/posts
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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03-10-2007, 11:31 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | A video here (but I can't get it to work): http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...p/t-66598.html Awesome photo: http://www.befrielsen1945.dk/temaer/...r/mosquito.jpg I think 140 Wing, 2 TAF consisted of 21 (City of Norwich) Sqn, 464 (RAAF) and 487 (RNZAF). One of the Mossies hit a 30 metre high lamp post on the way in. They were low! Imagine a Mossie going over you, at speed, at the height?! 
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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03-10-2007, 11:37 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | The link to the video is: http://195.231.246.70/agent/style/be...ult.aspx?22691 On some computers it may take a minute or two to load first
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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