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Hansaviertel runway
2022-03-03 15:49:00 UTC‘The take-off was made under hailing Russian fire and as the plane rose to roof-top level it was picked up by countless searchlights and at once breaketed in a barrage of shelling’. – Hanna Reitsch, 29 April, 1945 –
Photo: LIFE © Time Inc (115928934). It was mid…
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Hot Time in the town of Berlin
2021-10-28 19:06:00 UTCWAC’s Flak Fortresses
Photo: LIFE ©Time Inc_641268. During his visit to Berlin in July 1945, American photographer William Vandivert (1912-1989) took hundreds of pictures of the ruined Nazi-capital. Some of those were starred by a trio of US WACs (Women’s Army Corps) while on tour of the city (a few…
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Ruined Berlin in Valery Faminsky’s eyes (II)
2019-02-24 18:50:05 UTCSecond part of the pictures taken by Soviet war photographer Valery Faminsky (1914–1993) during the Fall of Nazi Berlin in May 1945. [Major S L Rogatchevsky, a Soviet medical officer, poses next to a propaganda slogan painted on a wall by SS members during the battle that reads: ‘Berlin stays…
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The defences – Air detection (III)
2017-05-30 07:59:36 UTCThe Freya systems of the German early warning radars were highly successful, but they need another set to help in targeting air objectives Anti-aircraft targeting radars, or FuMG (from Funkmeßgerät, or radar) were not in service when the war broke out. From 1939, GEMA and Telefunken starting to develop…