VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-08-25

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Place d'Italie
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The entrance of Chinatown

Border Israel/Egypt
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Green Israel, desert Egypt

Kapanese Kaiten and German Seehund midget submarines, and PBR Riverine Patrol Boat
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The Kaitens were deployed from November 1944, to the end of WW II. They were normally carried piggyback to their target areas aboard mother submarines or cruisers. On a submarine deployment, the crew entered the Kaiten from the lower hatch under its belly. From cruisers, they were lowered over the side.. At approximately 8300 yards, the Kaiten was launched and cruised at periscope depth. At a distance to its target of 550 yards, the pilot would submerge to 13 feet and lock his controls for the final attack run. Three U.S. ships were sunk by Kaitens.
The Seehund (seal) was a successful coastal patrol design submarine. A total of 1,284 were ordered and 67 were built in 1944 and 1945. The Seehund was designed to be used in shallow water close to base, where reloads were available for quick turnaround and return to battle. The two torpedoes were slung externally on rails on each side of the boat. The Seehunds were credited with sinking more than 120,000 tons of Allied shipping in the final months of WW II.
There is also a Riverine Patrol Boat to the south and a blue target drone to the north (though that may be an old anti ship missile.)

Fluor Enterprises, Inc. Greenville Campus
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From http://www.fluor.com/about/:
Fluor Corporation is one of the world's largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services organizations. Over the past century, Fluor, through its operating subsidiaries, has become a trusted global leader in providing exceptional services and technical knowledge. Clients rely on Fluor to deliver world-class solutions that optimize their assets, improve their competitive position, and increase their long-term business success. Consistently rated as one of the world's safest contractors, Fluor's primary objective is to develop, execute, and maintain projects on schedule, within budget, and with excellence.

Place de la République
Kooothor (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Kooothor.
A popular place where demonstrations used to finish.

Hippodrome de Longchamp
Kooothor (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Kooothor.
A place where you can bet on horses during races.

USS Salem (CA-139) & German midget sub Seehund
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The midget sub is on the shore just aft of the two forward gun mounts, beside the main superstructure.
The Seehund (seal) was the most successful of several Nazi attempts to perfect a midget submarine. Operated by two men and carrying two underslung torpedoes, the Seehund was used very effectively in the waning months of World War II, sinking over 120,000 tons of allied shipping. Their small size and rapid evasive action made them virtually undetectable and depth charges seemed to bounce off of their resilient hulls. In the final months of the war, the Seehunds were used as "butter boats", to replenish the dwindling supplies of German garrisons stranded along the coast.
USS Salem is the third and last ship of the Des Moines class of heavy cruisers. She is comparable in size to some of the famous dreadnoughts of World War I. Her tremendous firepower is perhaps Salem's most important feature. The main battery of nine 8-inch guns were loaded automatically from the ammunition handling rooms to the gun muzzles. They were capable of firing at a rate nearly four times faster than any others of the same or larger caliber.
While her armament was awesome, Salem never once fired her guns in anger. For eight years she served as Flagship of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In 1953, she was the first ship to arrive at the earthquake-devastated Ionian Islands of Greece, where her crew worked for days caring for the injured and distributing supplies to the homeless. For her efforts, Salem earned the praise of the King and Queen of Greece.
Throughout her career, she played host to many distinguished visitors, among them U.S. Ambassador to Spain John D. Lodge, Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas S. Gates, and the Shah of Iran. Salem was decommissioned in 1959. She returned to her Fore River Shipyard "home" in October 1994, and opened for visiting in May 1995.
Salem is home to the USN Cruiser Sailors Association Memorial, USS Salem Exhibit, the USS Saint Paul Memorial and the Military Archives and Research Center.
A two million dollar drydocking and overhaul of the cruiser was completed in early 2000.

Melbourne Airport (MEL)
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Melbourne International Airport at Tullamarine

Odd checkerboard carved out of the forest
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Aquaboulevard Pool
A huge complex of a big pool with toboggans, theater, restaurant and shops.

Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park
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Home to the Charleston RiverDogs, a Class A affliate of the New York Yankees.

Avenue de Breteuil
The long and green avenue in Paris where the students like to sit down and dogs shit.

A-4 Skyhawk at National Vietnam War Museum
There is supposed to be a PBR Mark II river patrol boat too but I don't see it. Perhaps it was installed after the image was taken.

Submarine USS Silversides (SS-236) & USCGC McLane
USS Silversides was commissioned into the U.S. Navy eight days after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. During World War II, the submarine served in the Pacific Fleet along Japan's coasts, in the East China Sea, and through key enemy shipping routes around the Marianas, Carolines, Bismarck Archipelago, and along the Solomons to Guadacanal. Its mission was to stop raw materials and supplies -- oil, bauxite, rubber, coal, food, and iron ore -- from reaching Japan. Silversides completed 14 war patrols and sank 23 ships, the third highest total of enemy ships sunk by a U.S. submarine during the war.
After the war, Silversides served as a reserve training boat near Chicago. Decommissioned in 1969, the vessel was saved from scrapping by the Great Lakes Navy Association in 1972. Virtually unmodified since her last refitting at Pearl Harbor in 1945, Silversides is on display in Pere Marquette Park along the Muskegon Lake Channel. Silversides conducts youth group overnight encampments.
USCGC McLane was authorized during Calvin Coolidge's administration as one of a class of 33 "Rum Chasers" for use during prohibition. She and her sisters were the last military vessels built for the U.S. Government that carried an auxiliary sail rig. Until the onset of World War II, McLane was based at a number of West Coast stations.
Her World War II duties took McLane to Ketchikan, Alaska where she was manned by a Coast Guard crew, but under Navy operational control. On July 9, 1942, working with a Coast Guard manned Navy patrol craft, she established sonar contact with a Japanese submarine known to be in the area. After a day long chase during which she dropped numerous depth charges, a large oil slick appeared on the surface, and no further contact with the sub was to be had. Sources indicate the Japanese submarine RO-32 was lost in the area at this time, and McLane is generally credited with the sinking.
Following the War, McLane resumed her law enforcement and search and rescue duties, operating out of Sitka, Alaska; Aberdeen Washington; and finally Brownsville, Texas. She was decommissioned in 1969, and acquired by a Sea Scout group in Chicago. She was acquired by the USS Silversides and Maritime Museum in 1993.

Triangular-shaped Rolle Field (44A)
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Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP)
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Parc Montsouris
A big park nearby the "Cité Universitaire".

Growing to the top, and the bottom
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Some building are growing to the to of the page, some to the bottom. IT looks like 2 pictures taken with a different angle, up and down Wilson Blvd.

National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey
This organization has the mission of preserving and explaining the military heritage of New Jersey, enhancing public understanding of how armed conflicts and military institutions have shaped our state and national experience. The Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to assist in the collection, preservation and display of artifacts and related memorabilia, which has specific historical significance to the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard, and the Naval Militia of New Jersey.

Hopital Necker
A French famous hospital for children only.

J. Verne Smith Parkway (SC80) Under Construction

USS Cassin Young (DD-793)
Representative of 14 Fletcher class destroyers built at the Charlestown Navy Yard, USS Cassin Young exemplifies the intense military-industrial effort that greatly contributed to the Allied victory in World War II. Named for a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Cassin Young first saw action in the Pacific in April 1944. The ship rescued some 120 survivors of the stricken carrier USS Princeton in October 1944, and carries a commemorative plaque presented by those grateful sailors. But it was on the picket line off Okinawa that she truly distinguished herself, surviving two separate hits by Japanese kamikazes. Although the second attack, on July 30, 1945, killed 22 and wounded twice as many and totally disabled the ship, the heroic efforts of her crew saved the ship.
Decommissioned in 1946, Cassin Young returned to duty in 1951. For the rest of the 1950s, she served primarily in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. She entered the reserve fleet for a second time in 1960. She was transferred to the National Park Service for use as a museum ship in June 1978.
USS Cassin Young is a National Historic Landmark.

Disappearing Bridge
No bridge in satellite mode but flip to map mode and there is a bridge. No sign of construction. Where did it go?

Liberty Ship SS John W Brown
One of only two surviving fully operational Liberty ships preserved in the U.S., the is a product of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program that built more than 2,700 liberty ships during World War II. Designed for quick and relatively easy construction, Liberty ships made possible the massive sealift of troops, arms, and material to all theaters of the war. The Brown was built in 56 days by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore.
The Brown made 13 voyages during and immediately after the war. Those voyages took her to the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, and Northern Europe. The Brown was at the Anzio beachhead and was part of the invasion force at Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France in August 1944. The Brown was awarded the merchant marine Victory Medal, the Combat Bar, and war zone medals for the Atlantic, the Mediterranean/Middle East, and the Pacific theaters.
After carrying Marshall Plan cargoes to Europe to aid in post-war rebuilding, the ship was used as a vocational high school in New York City from 1946 to 1982. She was then returned to the James River Reserve Fleet until acquired by Project Liberty Ship in 1988. The Brown has been fully restored and is an operating museum ship and memorial. She is the only operating Liberty ship on the east coast. The ship conducts 6-hour Living History Cruises about four times a year and travels to other east coast ports. The schedule and other details of the cruises are available on the web site and by calling 410 558-0164.
John W. Brown is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has received the World Ship Trust's prestigious Maritime Heritage Award.

Assemblée Nationale (Palais Bourbon), Ministère des Affaires étrangères
The place where the laws are discussed and voted.

IBM Main Office in Lima
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Parc de Monceau
A very pretty park.

Airplane (small) landing at Greenville Downtown Airport

Gare d'Austerlitz
This station is used to go to South-West of France, Spain and Portugal.

Haditha Dam
pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pdunn.
Notice the large Iraqi flag

Hopital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
This hospital was built under the reign of Napoleon.

USCGC Taney (WHEC-37)
USCGC Taney is one of seven Treasury/Secretary Class cutters built for the Coast Guard in the Mid-1930s. Home ported in Honolulu, Hawaii beginning in 1937, Taney was attached to Destroyer Division 80 in the summer of 1941 and was in action against Japanese planes during the Pearl Harbor Attack. Of the 101 US fighting ships present in Hawaiian waters on 7 December 1941, Taney is the only one afloat today.
At sea for 80 of the first 90 days of war, Taney carried out anti-submarine patrols off Hawaii, and later served as a convoy escort in the Pacific through 1943. Following a major refit, the cutter was transferred to the Atlantic in 1944 where she escorted six convoys between the East Coast of the US and North Africa. On 20 April 1944, Taney helped fight off a German torpedo bomber attack on Convoy USG 38 off Algiers. Converted to an Amphibious Command Ship in 1945, she participated in the battle for Okinawa downing four Japanese Kamikazes and one "Betty" bomber.
Known as "The Queen of the Pacific," Taney was home ported in Alameda, CA, from 1946 to 1972 carrying out ocean weather patrol, law enforcement and search and rescue duties. During 1969-70, the cutter was assigned to Coast Guard Squadron III off South Vietnam where she helped interdict the flow of arms along the coast, fired over 3400 rounds of 5/38 ammunition in naval gunfire support missions, and provided medical assistance to over 5,000 South Vietnamese civilians.
Transferred to Little Creek, and later Portsmouth, VA, in 1972, Taney completed the last Coast Guard ocean weather patrol in 1977, and from 1977 to 1986 carried out search and rescue duties, training cruises for the Coast Guard Academy, and drug interdiction in the Caribbean. In one 1985 drug bust Taney seized a record 160 tons of marijuana. Decommissioned on 7 December 1986, she is displayed in Baltimore's Inner Harbor along with USS Torsk and Lightship 116.
USCGC Taney is a National Historic Landmark.

Sami Abdulrahman Park
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United States Sloop of War Constellation
Constellation bears the same name as the famous frigate of 1797 which was broken up at the same time this ship was being built. Constellation's first duty assignment was interdicting the slave trade off the coast of Africa. She captured two slavers and released the imprisoned slaves. At the outbreak of the Civil War, she made the first Union Navy capture, overpowering Triton, a slaver brig in coastal waters off Africa. She then spent two years on the Mediterranean station attempting to capture the Confederate commerce raider Sumter. She also served briefly with Farragut's Gulf Blockading Squadron.
After the war she saw various duties, carrying famine relief stores to Ireland and carrying precious American works of art to the Paris Exposition of 1895. She was used extensively as a training ship for Naval Academy midshipmen. During World War II, she served as relief flagship for the Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet. She is the last existing Civil War era naval vessel and the last sail-powered warship built by the U.S. Navy. She has been in Baltimore since 1955. A nine million dollar restoration project was completed in 1999.
USS Constellation is a National Historic Landmark.

Lightship Chesapeake (LV-116)
Lightship 116 - now called Chesapeake - was built for the U.S. Lighthouse Service in 1930. For the next 40 years, she served as a floating lighthouse, landfall and communications platform. Her first duty station was Fenwick Island, Delaware. In 1933, she first assumed the name Chesapeake, from her new position off the coast of Virginia at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. She was redesignated WAL 538 in 1939, when the Lighthouse Service was absorbed by the U.S. Coast Guard.
In 1942, shortly after the U.S. entered World War II, Chesapeake was given light armament, painted battleship gray and moved to Sandwich, Massachusetts to serve as an Examination Vessel. After the war, she returned to the Chesapeake station. She ended her service at the Delaware Bay station in 1970.
After retirement, she was transferred to the National Park Service, and began a new career as a seagoing environmental center in Washington, D.C. In 1981, as Chesapeake, she joined the Baltimore Maritime Museum's collection of historic ships.
Lightship 116 is a National Historic Landmark

Jardin des Plantes
A big botanic garden with a little zoo and a museum of natural history.

Institut Pasteur
This institute of science was founded by Louis Pasteur in 1887. It's specialized in Infectious diseases. I used to work here to study Malaria.

Stade Suzanne Lenglen
A big complex of stadium and tennis courts.

Airplane leaving Monmouth Executive Airport (BLM)

Hydrofoil USS Aries (PHM-5)
USS Aries was homeported in Key West for most of her 11 years of service. She conducted law enforcement operations against smugglers in cooperation with the Coast Guard in the Gulf of Mexico and the east coast of Central America. She took part in various fleet exercises including the "Ocean Venture" and "Solid Shield" series. She also participated in a number of UNITAS exercises with Central and South American Navies. She and the other five ships of the class were decommissioned in 1993 with the downsizing of the U.S. Navy fleet.

Pacific Space Center

Deland Municipal Airport (DED)

Airplane landing at Miami International Airport

Space propulsions test platforms
A major facility for Pratt and Whitney, the aircraft and rocket engine company. This 7,000-acre installation is the company's principal military and space engine design, manufacture, test and repair facility, and has around 50 engine test stands. Major down-sizing in 1999 led to the closure of the military aircraft engine component of this facility, and the Palm Beach location is now known as the Space Propulsion Operations Headquarters. Pratt & Whitney is owned by United Technologies, of Hartford Connecticut.

Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
The big site where all the important expositions take place.

Bomb Damage
pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pdunn.
Secure bunker complex in N.E. Iraq. Bomb damage is evident. As are berms and tunnels.

Strange Abandoned Track
rubexcube (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: rubexcube.
This is some kind of track I spotted while waiting to land at San Diego airport. Look for it while landing.

Place de Wagram
Looks like a sea-star.

Réservoirs de Montsouris
To provide water to the thirsty parisiens.

Observatoire de Paris
This telescope can't see very well because of the pollution and the lights.

Airplane over New Smyrna Beach

Lycée Camille Sée
A college built from a gas plant.

Lycée Buffon
A big college with five playgrounds built over a cemetary in 1888.

Airplane taking off at Tallahasse Airport

SS Milwaukee Clipper
The oldest American passenger steamship on the Great Lakes, the Milwaukee Clipper was built as the Juniata to carry passengers and freight. Her quadruple-expansion steam engine is one of the few surviving examples of this important engine type. In 1940 she was rebuilt as the Clipper. The entire ship reflected the new aesthetic streamlining of the Art Moderne style. Many design elements introduced in the Clipper are still being included in modern ocean-going passenger ships. The rebuilt ship served the route between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Muskegon, Michigan from 1941 to 1970.
During World War II the Clipper transported defense materials from Muskegon to Milwaukee. In peacetime, her only cargo was automobiles. Contracts with auto manufacturers to transport new cars during the winter months allowed the ship to operate at a profit without a full passenger load after most all-passenger vessels were forced into retirement.
Following extensive restoration efforts, the ship was opened for tours in August 2000. Visitors can now tour the pilothouse, some staterooms, crew quarters, dance floor and movie theater. There are also displays of memorabilia from both the Juniata and the Clipper. They include photographs, brochures, dishes and other items of interest. She is closed for the winter but will re-open this spring. Restoration work will continue for the foreseeable future.

Trenton Robbinsville Airport (N87)

Airplane leaving Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport

Hippodrome de Vincennes, Institut National des Sports
A huge sports complex.

Hôpital Saint-Anne
This hospital is for crazy people.

Airplane taking off at Orlando International Airport

Cimetière de Gentilly
This cemetery is nearby the Sebastien Charléty stadium.

Square Saint-Lambert
A park where students like to go.

Mairie du XIV
This is the city hall of the 14th district of Paris. The red circle at the south is the roof of a pool where I practice Devilsticks.

Airplane landing at Deland Airport

Airplane approaching Patrick AFB

Airplane taking off from Deland Airport

Héliport de Paris
The Paris main heliport.