INTERNET REFERENCE (WWII related)

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OK, I have a copy, I'll hang it on my webspace:
http://www3.telus.net/v1ncent/bob/Bucic ... de_png.zip

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Buddye wrote:This was added by cgjimeneza for a start to this thread. Thanks.

Ive uploaded the files to my filefront page, BOB II folder

http://hosted.filefront.com/cgjimeneza
A broken link I am afraid

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PV wrote:Alas, ww2airfronts disappeared around the end of summer 2009, after being online for at least
five years, and I'm afraid Snip aka von Schnitter dropped from sight on the fora a while earlier
than that. He was a collector, and the site had scans of some of his personal acquisitions.
Had we had prior notice, I'm sure there would have been a lot of downloading and saving of
the material from his extensive site.
PV, the waybackmachine seems to have saved a lot of the text and images. Seems to have a good amount on BoB.

Sidebar images are broken (links work though), but you can use the text menu at the bottom of the page.
http://web.archive.org/web/200805120020 ... ronts.org/
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I guess you may have found this one too:
http://web.archive.org/web/200604252059 ... index.html

When you dig for the actual material, there are holes in the
archive.org content. They never exhaustively archive a site,
and their machine seems to pick stuff more or less at random.

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The Battle of Britain Weather Diary

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/63129- ... her-diary/

Excellent! A detailed day by day account of the Battle. Many pictures, too.

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Hi!
this is a nice website with LW markings and colours.
I don´t know if you already know about it, but just in case:

http://www.asisbiz.com/Battles/camouflage.html

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-ar ... terns.html

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Not a web site, but an exceptional photo of 4.5 inch AA guns and the gun revetments.

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Also exceptional in that are more than four guns here. HAA gun sites in England during the entire WWII, almost always were only a single four-gun Troop.
Researching all HAA gun sites in south England for 3 years, I found only 8 HAA sites that had two four-gun Troops together as a full eight-gun Battery.

Knowing that the ex-naval 4.5 inch guns were mostly placed to protect Naval Bases and Docks,
and knowing where two HAA gun Troops were together as a full eight-gun battery in England south of Warwickshire / Birmingham,
this Battery may be one on Hayling Isand protecting Portsmouth Naval Base.

Site was: Portsmouth - P2 - Sinah site.

Then, again, this Battery may be one up at Scapa Flow. There was two Troops close together up there. What do I know!?

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Royal Army BEF France, 1940 Order Of Battle.
Very high resolution.

Not RAF, but I love things like this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... y_1940.png

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stickman wrote:Royal Army BEF France, 1940 Order Of Battle.
Very high resolution.
I'll say - 4MB, 5kx20k pixels. You definitely need an image viewer
to browse it properly.

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A really good older documentary I stumbled upon probably from the late 1970's.
It has a bunch of Battle of Britain secrets in it as well.
It's quite long though.
Probably came out after the World At War series


The Secret War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCF-Ufapu8

Here is a really nice documentary about Gordon Welchman and Bletchley Park
It has some interesting parts about traffic analysis of German Luftwaffe units in there during the Battle of Britain


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnr4pM-ntdc

also the same video here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYC21kJDftQ

I was so fascinated by this particular story that I just ordered Welchman's book on Amazon
Son of a U.S.A.A.F. 15th Air Force 463rd bomb group 772nd squadron B17 pilot.
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