military and historic spots on My Fav Spot
No matter if you are pacifist or military buff in our past wars had huge influence on the world we live in. Here you will find the places important from military or historic point of view.
Stutthof Concentration Camp
Ob?z koncentracyjny w Sztutowie (Konzentrationslager)
Stutthof Concentration Camp was established at the outbreak of World War II, 2 September 1939. Here, from the first days of the war they were deposited Poles an more...
Governors Island National Monument
Governors Island National Monument is located in Manhattan, New York City on 22 acres (89,000 m2) of Governors Island. Governors Island has played a role in the more...
Project Riese near Walim
Muzeum Sztolni Walimskich
Riese is the code name for the construction project of Nazi Germany in 1943?45. In the north - western part of the Owl Mountains (Eulengebirge) and in the vicin more...
Bali - the USAT Liberty
In 1942, the USAT Liberty, a United States military cargo ship, was torpedoed by the Japanese while stationed off the strait of Lombok. Damaged, the Unites Sta more...
Dulag 121 Pruszkow
Durchgangslager 121 Pruszk?w
Dulag 121 Pruszkow - German Nazi transit camp, where civilians gathered in Warsaw and surrounding villages, removed from their homes during and after the Warsaw more...
National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has thousands of objects on display, including the 1903 Wright Flyer, Charles Lindbergh?s Spirit of St. Loui more...
Gettysburg National Military Museum
Gettysburg early in the second half of the nineteenth century was a small American town. At the height of the Civil War, this place became, however, the scene o more...
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in West Virginia, which is situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, V more...
Fort McHenry
Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a coastal star-shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor f more...
Pere-Lachaise
Pere-Lachaise is the most beautiful and largest cemetery in Paris and one of the largest cemetery in the world. The name of the cemetery comes from the name Jes more...
The National Katyn Memorial
Narodowy Pomnik Katy?ski
The National Katyn Memorial in Baltimore memorializes the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish nationals carried out by Soviet forces. It was erected on more...
Klodzko Fortress
Twierdza K?odzko
Klodzko Fortress - Stronghold is the most valuable piece of modern defense architecture in Poland, which has its origins in the tenth century, in the place wher more...
Wolf?s Lair
Wolfsschanze
In Gierloz ? small village near Ketrzyn on Masuria are forested ruins of Adolf Hitlers headquarters - Wolf?s Lair. Masked town in the forest - 200 buildings: sh more...
Warsaw Uprising Museum
Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego
Museum is dedicated to Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when the inhabitants of Warsaw tried to overcome German occupants. more...
Polish Army Museum
Muzeum Wojska Polskiego
Museum located in the center of Warsaw, near the Vistula River, presenting history of Polish army from the Middle Ages until today. In the outside part of the m more...
USS Intrepid Museum
USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier built in World War 2, fought in the Pacific surviving five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike later to serve during Cold more...
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