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3 unusual facts about Wangerooge


DRG Class 99.21

The only example of the German DRG Class 99.21 steam locomotive was built for the Wangerooge Island Railway on Wangerooge, one of the German-owned Friesian islands in the North Sea.

Finn Graff

He was born in Wangerooge, Germany as a son of aviator Heinz Friedrich Wöhlecke (1909–1944) and translator Margit-Ruth Graff (1914–2000).

Zerstörergeschwader 76

Heinz Fresia were the first to engage, claiming two Wellingtons each, though Falck's aircraft was hit by defending fire and he crash-landed on Wangerooge.


Steindamm

A station on the Wangerooge Island Railway, the East Frisian island of Wangerooge off the northwestern coast of Germany


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