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Falklands War: World War Ii
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Villa Rose is a camouflaged bunker from World War II with 7-foot (2.5 meters) concrete walls. False garage doors open to reveal cannon emplacements and heavy-duty machine guns. The fortress is part of a vast, little-known system of fortifications built during WWII to repel an invasion by Nazi Germany. Villa Rose was positioned to protect against a German attack over the Jura Mountains from Nazi-occupied France, or over the Alps from fascist Italy.
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The ship was built as the General Harry Taylor during World War II and was outfitted with all manner of satellite and communications equipment and renamed in 1963. Cleaning and sinking the Vandenberg will cost nearly $6 million. Key West city officials are planning a full week of activities leading up to the sinking which is scheduled for next May.
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Pressure increased on San Francisco officials Friday to decide whether they want the World War II battleship Iowa after two key federal lawmakers agreed to let any California community bid for the vessel. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and Rep. Richard Pombo, who had been offering dueling proposals on the Iowa's future, agreed that the ship should be transferred to California for permanent donation status and that any city in the state could bid for it.
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When the Clipper goes down to the bottom of the ocean, a lot of history will go down with it. In World War II as the USS Queens, it ferried wounded troops from the battlefield. After the war, the ship became the SS Excambion, one of four luxury liners known as the Four Aces.
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