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The gold was protected by a vault, which was eventually blasted. Inside was a room 75 x 150 feet containing 7,000 numbered bags of gold bar and coins, 250 tons in all. The vault stored currencies from across Europe, including 2.7 billion Reichsmarks and 98 million French francs (equivalent to 11 billion 2021 €). In other areas were 400 tons ...
Dutch Harbor is close to some of the richest fishing in the world, and it is ice-free. The native people are known as Aleut. When the Russians arrived, they exploited the Aleut by taxing them in fur pelts. The Russian-American Company operated from 1799 through the mid-1800s. It used Dutch Harbor in the transport of goods, mainly seal and sea ...
A Design 1023 cargo ship sunk by the Japanese submarine I-26 off the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the first American ship sunk off the coast of the State of Washington during World War II 48°19′N 125°40′W / 48.317°N 125.667°W / 48.317; -125.667 ( SS Coast
Pages in category "World War II shipwrecks in the Bering Sea" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
They were put on display until World War II broke out in 1939, when they were hidden. Several fruitless searches were carried out before researchers turned their attention to the crypts in ...
Pages in category "Bering Sea Gold" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Art theft and looting occurred on a massive scale during World War II. It originated with the policies of the Axis countries, primarily Nazi Germany and Japan, which systematically looted occupied territories. Near the end of the war the Soviet Union, in turn, began looting reclaimed and occupied territories. "The grand scale of looted artwork ...
About 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea between 2018 and 2021. Now we know the sad reason why.