These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Parachute mines
Parachute mines were used in the early 40s; the end of the war was characteri...
Led the Prussian army at the Battle of Waterloo. Born Germany. Died Prussia, now Poland. Made two state visits to London following his victories over Napoleon in 1813 and 1815.
The twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest area of the city,
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
Berlin has a mayor and an executive making up the Senat, similar to the Greater London Authority.