The Melbourne Cricket Ground is the largest sports stadium inward Commonwealth of Australia together with the 10th largest inward the world. The MCG hasn't ever been used for sports. During World War II the stadium was occupied inward plow past times the the United States Army Air Forces, the Royal Australian Air Force together with the the United States Marine Corps. Now y'all tin stance the stadium every bit it looked at the halt of World War II on Melbourne 1945.
Melbourne 1945 is an interactive map which allows y'all to compare aerial views of Melbourne captured inward 1945. The map allows y'all to brand a at nowadays comparing betwixt the historical imagery together with the metropolis today past times placing the vintage together with modern twenty-four hours imagery side-by-side on a Leaflet map. The original aerial survey maps were lay together past times the Victorian Department of Lands together with Survey using aerial photographs taken past times Adastra Airways inward 1945.
