Submarine Base Lorient
Where the U Boat base in La Rochelle cannot be visited (unfortunately), the submarine base in Lorient can!
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Peenemünde
In Peenemunde, during the 2nd World War, research was done into the V weapons, especially the V1 and the V2 rocket. There's not much left of those research centers, just a power station...
Railway gun Krupp K5
In the north of France, in the town of Audinghen, there is a museum that manages the bunker “Todt”. The bunker itself is already a solid appearance ... but the cannon that stands next to it ... that was what mattered to us ... A Krupp K5 cannon, made between 1937 and 1940. It fired a 255 kilo grenade over a distance of almost 70 km. The gun weighs 120 tons and is 32 meters long.
Ouistreham bunker museum
In Ouistreham (France) is a WW2 bunker that is now in use as a museum. From an original landing craft (which was also used in the movie "saving private ryan", to uniforms, a few tanks, rooms full of original stuff and way way more.
La Rochelle
Anyone who has seen the movie “das boot” also knows what the town of La Rochelle was in the second world war: A naval base for, among other things, submarine boats. The (huge) bunkers for those U-boats are still there, but ...
Pointe du Hoc
On June 6, 1944 (D-Day), at 07.00 am, the US 2nd Ranger battalion came up along this coast in France, along the rock wall that is 30 meters high, with rope ladders ...
Tempelhof airport and the cold war.
Tempelhof Airport was once one of the largest airports in Europe, but it has been closed since 2008. It played a major role in the cold war and relatively much of it remains ...
SOXMIS, MMFL, USMLM en BRIXMIS in the Cold War.
Shortly after the end of WWII, an agreement was reached between the various Allied forces (US, UK, France and Russia) that small numbers of military personnel - along with ...
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