Wildfire Uncovers Hidden World War II-era Landmark
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vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
That really is.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Or in British Columbia, or Greece, or Portugal, or......
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Cool
I don't know if putting "Eire" all around the UK coast would violate international law? Strange how quickly stuff like that is forgotten, and how much is hidden, when there is a fire on the moors here the archeologists move in and find stuff going back to the beaker people.
ODonovan
Airman 1st Class
That one, at Bray Head, is actually south of Dublin (the one actually in Ireland, not in California), on the coast. They wouldn't want some wayward Brit (or German, for that matter) losing their way and jettisoning bombs all over the Irish countryside. Pilots landing in Ireland would also be detained for the duration of the war and their aircraft confiscated, although under-the-table arrangements -were- made, from time to time, with the British and/or German governments, for release of their people.
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GreenKnight121
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GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Slow clap for the guy that didn't get the joke...
I was just joking, whereas I didn't know about that specific landmark I have heard of many others, such things were a part of navigation in the USA in the early days of aviation, but also there were a huge number of equally misleading things created all over Europe including complete false airfields.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Those landmarks still turn up every so often after fires clear the brush and trees away, like the giant concrete arrows between the east and west coasts, many of which turn up after a California wildfire.
I know, sometimes covered in UK press. But the USA wasn't overflown by enemy aircraft. If we used such aids in UK on 3rd sept 1939 there would suddenly be arrows and signs all over saying and pointing to anything except the truth.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Quite a few of the California arrow/beacon sites were demolished during WWII to prevent any enemy from using them.
Well since they obviously weren't needed, if they were destroyed, why not just modify them by 90 degrees and tell US pilots never to use them? In clear visibility at high altitude you cannot get lost over the UK because you can see so much of it. The problems are always under cloud at which markers on the ground are useless.
ODonovan
Airman 1st Class
Confused the hell out of me, I live in Cleveland UK lol
ODonovan
Airman 1st Class
We do tend to recycle a LOT of place names, here in the States. To be nice, we probably SHOULD put "new" in front of them, like we did with names such as Jersey and York. Somehow, though..."New Cleveland?" NAAAAAAAH! It would never work.
-Irish
Well the name here is recent and now has been replaced again, I have had four regional names in my life all for the same town. Cleveland as a name comes from the Cleveland hills just to the south.We do tend to recycle a LOT of place names, here in the States. To be nice, we probably SHOULD put "new" in front of them, like we did with names such as Jersey and York. Somehow, though..."New Cleveland?" NAAAAAAAH! It would never work.
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