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Sunday 18 December 2011
The most successful coverup during WWII
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air
the most successful female sniper in history
war, had killed a confrimed 309 Germans -- the most successful female sniper in history
Enigma machine sells for world record
London (CNN) -- An Enigma machine which featured in a Hollywood
movie about the codebreakers of World War II has smashed auction
estimates and sold for a world record price.
The encoding device sparked a three-way bidding war when it went
under the hammer at Christie's in London Thursday, selling for
£133,250 ($208,137) -- more than double the upper estimate of
£50,000.
Christie's said the previous record for an Enigma machine was
£67,250, at the same auction house, in November 2010.
Vitally important to the Nazi war machine, the Enigma machine was
used by the German military to encrypt messages into a form they
believed was unbreakable.
However, the code was cracked by a team of cryptologists at
Bletchley Park in southern England -- a breakthrough widely credited
with having shortened the war by at least two years.
movie about the codebreakers of World War II has smashed auction
estimates and sold for a world record price.
The encoding device sparked a three-way bidding war when it went
under the hammer at Christie's in London Thursday, selling for
£133,250 ($208,137) -- more than double the upper estimate of
£50,000.
Christie's said the previous record for an Enigma machine was
£67,250, at the same auction house, in November 2010.
Vitally important to the Nazi war machine, the Enigma machine was
used by the German military to encrypt messages into a form they
believed was unbreakable.
However, the code was cracked by a team of cryptologists at
Bletchley Park in southern England -- a breakthrough widely credited
with having shortened the war by at least two years.
Silver Treasure, Worth $18 Million, Found in North
Ireland in 1917, a German torpedo sank the British steamship Mantola, sending the vessel and its cargo of an estimated 20 tons of silver to the seabed more than a mile down. At today’s prices, the metal would be worth about $18 million.
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Tuesday 13 December 2011
England sea forts
Maunsell’s army sea forts were specifically designed to repel smaller aircraft flying in to attack Great Britain. Each fort consists of a cluster of smaller units arrayed in agroup. Each group had one spotlight tower and the rest of the units had guns mounted all around to give maximum range. Each fort was connected by bridges to the others in the cluster but was also structurally autonomous – presumably in case one were to be successfully targeted and destroyed. Since being decommissioned in the 1950′s, a number of these forts have been used for pirate radio broadcasting stations while others been converted into a luxury resorts.
Most of them are abondone after the war but some of them actually been converted intp luxury hotel, like the no man's land sea fort.
Amazing gigantic plane Kalinin K-7
A truly amazing gigantic plane ever built by formal Soviet Union in 1933 by Konstantin Kalinin. flew 11 time and end up crashing into ground, killing 15 persons, well, poor guy. Kalinin was executed by Stalin, i guess you don't just failed expensive project under Stalin.
look at those canons, more like a battleship then a plane
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