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I re-visited the Mittelland Canal on a night operation on 21 November 1944. My official report reads: "The primary target, MITTELLAND CANAL, was bombed from 4,000 feet at 21.04 hours.
The factory, which stretched nearly four-fifths of a mile along the Mittelland Canal, was designed to produce as many as 1 million autos a year. World War II derailed those plans.
The key element in the vast new program is the construction of a $190 million, 70-mile-long North-South Canal that will link Hamburg to the Mittelland Canal, itself to be deepened and widened at a ...
It spans the Elbe River, connecting the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittellandkanal, reducing the distance travelled by trading and passenger vessels by over 7.5 miles.
The town of Wolfsburg, not far from Hanover, only came into being thanks to VW, and today 50,000 workers cross the Mittelland Canal to a car plant the size of Gibraltar. En route, they pass VW's ...
The Magdeburg Water Bridge is a navigable aqueduct in Germany that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal, and allows ships to cross over the Elbe River. At 918 m, it is the longest ...