Bunkersite.com update: Dieppe and Bergen
Together with the new layout come new photos. This time from a trip made by Henk Adriaanse to the Dieppe area and some updates in the Bergen area from back in 2007. Dieppe got the honor to be the first part which was updated to the new layout. Locations were extended and added. Janval is […]
In: Bunkersite update · Tagged with: atlantikwall, bergen, blockhaus, bunkers, bunkersite, dieppe, france, frankreich, noorwegen, norway, norwegen, regelbau, somme
Stop the looting of Bt Karola
Looting bunkers of the Atlantikwall by so-called collectors has been the case since the eighties of the last century. However since less and less complete bunkers are present the rate of looting speeds up. This is especially the case with the heavy Marine Batterie Karola on Île de Ré. Alain Durrieu, writer of several books about the Atlantikwall, now […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, France, News · Tagged with: 20.3, ars, batterie, battery, bunker, charente-maritime, cm, fire control bunker, france, frankreich, frankrijk, Île de Ré, karola, kriegsmarine, Leitstand, looting, mkb, msb, pillage, pilleurs, plundering, regelbau, robbery, rochelle, s497, stealing, toren, turm, vendée
Demolition news from northern France
Some unfortunate news from Nord-Pas de Calais. In Dunkerque, a bunker was demolished to make place for new housing. At the Batterie Waldam with its famous concrete gun turret, the loose barrel of the flare gun which was still there seems to have been cut to pieces and disappeared. According to this post on the french […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, News · Tagged with: abriss, afbraak, atlantikwall, blockhaus, bunker, bunkers, calais, demolition, duinkerken, dunkerque, dunkirk, france, frankreich, frankrijk, nord, pas-de-calais, pillbox, sloop, waldam
Sperrfeuer
Sometimes you can still find nice details inside a rusty armoured turret. Although the two Sechsschartentürme of Pen-Bron (Bretagne, France) are not in the best shape, they are quite complete and show some of these details. Written on the ceiling in pencil are firing directions for both machine guns. Each Scharte has a number, in this […]
In: Photography · Tagged with: 20p7, bretagne, brittany, france, frankreich, pen bron, saint-nazaire
Turrets, towers and Tumulus in Saint-Nazaire
Bunkersite.com travelled to Saint-Nazaire; again. After visits by Lenco in 1999 and 2002 and some additions by Henk Adriaanse in 2005 I wanted to see this formidable Festung myself. We wanted to update the website with new pictures, but also add new finds. In ten years much has happened in the Saint-Nazaire region. Mainly due […]
In: Bunkersite update, France, News, Photography · Tagged with: bretagne, festung, france, frankreich, frankrijk, loire-atlantique, saint-nazaire, turballe
Look out
Lookout, originally uploaded by Artz!. Cap Blanc Nez
In: Photography · Tagged with: 622, atlantikwall, beobachter, blanc, cap, channel, english, france, frankreich, frankrijk, kanaal, mur, nez, nord, offener, pas-de-calais, tobruk
Pump
pomp, originally uploaded by Artz!. Inside a water bunker in the Gironde area.
In: Photography · Tagged with: bordeaux, france, frankreich, frankrijk, gironde, pump, soulac, water