Since the release of Google Earth 5.0, Google has steadily added more and more historical imagery. Today, Google announced the addition of historical imagery from WWII. The new layer of imagery features aerial imagery of 35 European cities bombed during WWII. Among these cities Warsaw, Lyon, Naples, and Stuttgart. To view this imagery and compare it to modern imagery, locate a city in Google Earth then use the timeline slider to view the historical imagery.
Click the screen capture below to read the directions (in full size) for accessing the historical imagery.
For more information about Google Earth's historical imagery, watch the following video.
Applications for Education
As a history teacher I love using Google Earth for creating and sharing tours of military campaigns. The new WWII historical imagery for Google Earth will be useful for creating WWII tours that have imagery reflective of the time period.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
View WWII Imagery in Google Earth
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LONDON, EDINBOROUGH, BELFAST, CARDIFF
Google makes discovering Europe very interesting, did they include any pictures of Britain or was it off the map
By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by German bombing and more than a million houses were destroyed or damaged in London alone (think how much as a proportion of the homes in London that was).
London was not the only city to suffer Luftwaffe bombing during the Blitz- Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Clydebank, Coventry, Exeter, Greenock, Sheffield, Swansea, Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Nottingham, Brighton, Eastbourne, Sunderland and Southampton, suffered heavy air raids and high numbers of casualties.
Good stuff, but where is the list of 35?
Mike,
Unfortunately, there isn't a hyperlinked list that I'm aware of. The only way to find them is to browse through the Google Earth layers.
Richard
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