Interesting Article - Lost WW2 Bunkers Found

[AG124]

Just found this article and thought it might be of interest to someone. A WW2 German bunker at Normandy was found by someone who bought an old map from a US soldier. The bunkers have been untouched for 60 years, and will now probably become a tourist attraction.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1693425,00.html?gusrc=rss

[U-552Erich-Topp]

:) Has anyone found any pictures of this new bunker complex yet.

[Pigfish]

Yes pictures would be great. Imagine finding an enigma machine in good shape. :o

Strange that it took this long to be found though.

Makes me think of another link posted at this forum a long time ago. Was about the largest buried treasure ever found. In the San Fernandez Islands, apparently, using some kind of ultrasonics to see underground.

Never heard another word about it since... :hmm:

I hope this bunker one is true and National Geographic does a article on it. :cool:

[XabbaRus]

The guy has bought it.

I bet there are hundres of them about.

Apparently Britain is coverd in them. Not just wartimes.

I remember a documentary about bunkers in the UK and apparently there is one every square mile or so...hmm I wonder if that was if you distributed them equally thoug.

[Etienne]

It's not long ago that they were still clearing ordnance in those parts...

Heck, Admiralty maps of the baltic and north sea still have "Old minefield warnings"... The war wasn't that long ago.

[Ducimus]

Thats an incredible story, and an experience of a lifetime i woudl think.

In my minds eye i picture this fellow walking into a literal timecapsule, things droped and left just as if it were yesterday, covered in dust and cobwebs.

Imagine the things to find in there!

Pictures would be awesome.

[Iceman]

Mines...would be a scary reality I would be concerned about.

[Oberon]

We've had two controlled detonations here over the past year or so, one was an old German air dropped mine which was dredged up by a trawler. That made the whole house shake (and I'm on the other side of town from the sea), and the second I suspect was an old mine which used to be in the river. Apparently, during the war, one of the mines moored in the river got loose and drifted downriver until it hit a brickdock (which used to be used by Reades brickworks) which it then blew in two.
Hell, it wasn't that long ago I found an old US army battery box down there! :)

Where I used to live at Snape (just down river from here in Aldeburgh) we had two 'wells' in the back garden. We suspect that only one was a proper well and the other was quite possibly a 'resistance' bunker, designed and made in preperation for a German invasion. There's a lot of pill boxes around here, one not so far from our old house in Snape so it'd make sense I guess.
Never did check it out though :( :damn:

[Abraham]

I just saw the item about the bunkers on the Dutch TV news. Apparently the 9already mostly underground) bunkers were covered after the war to make the ground usable for agriculture.
The Dutch news finished: "The bunker complex might well have been part of the German Atlantic War."
That remark is what I call: Taking a calculated risk with an educated guess...
:D

[retired1212]

Lucky bastard

[Docjonel]

Pictures would be awesome.

Here are links to some images of the bunkers:

http://www.ouest-france.fr/ofinfosgene.asp?idDOC=277189&idCLA=3636
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2006031214,00.jpg

[jumpy]

on the subject of lost bunkers and such: http://www.theserpentswall.com/

interesting read. :yep:

[STEED]

Interesting :up:

[Polak]

Are there no pictures from the inside of the bunker?