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2006-01-24 Europe

Very Cool - WW2 German Bunker found in Normandy Untouched for 60 yrs

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Posted by Yosemite Sam 2006-01-24 11:44|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Way, way cool. And there's an outfit called TIGHAR that is investigating the possibility of intact Luftwaffe bunkers - with their aircraft - in Eastern Europe:

http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Opsep.html

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-01-24 12:24|| 2006-01-24 12:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent Sam - great find!
Mike - I've heard about those aicraft bunkers - weren't some located under E. Berlin airport? Fueled and bombed up (possibly) last I heard.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-01-24 12:47|| 2006-01-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 What an incredible find! The one time I was in Normandy and saw several of the pillboxes and underground passageways, I saw a lot of them had been vandalized with spray paint or were strewn with garbage and--judging from the smell--human waste. To find such a large complex so well preserved would be a military historian's dream!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2006-01-24 13:00|| 2006-01-24 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 The dad of two, from Manchester, kept it secret for three years so he could buy the land near the village of Grandcamp-Maisy.

He now plans to open it as a tourist attraction this year.

A born American.

Posted by 6 2006-01-24 16:48|| 2006-01-24 16:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Germany is full of such places. They were very big for underground facilities going back to WWI. I've prowled around several in the Stuttgart area.

At the end of the war, many just had their blast doors welded shut, for fear of booby traps, so remain in pristine condition.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-24 20:02|| 2006-01-24 20:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I always enjoy these stories on Page 3 from The Sun.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-24 20:05|| 2006-01-24 20:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Rex-
There were a few bunkers at the old Luftwaffe base at Rechlin, which was their equivalent of Wright Field. However, my understanding is that those bunkers were cleared and demolished after the war.
It's still a wonderful thought though that someday someone is going to open one up and find a 190D, or even an Me 262, just waiting.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-01-24 20:37|| 2006-01-24 20:37|| Front Page Top

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