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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Raubvogel on May 01, 2004, 02:47:36 PM
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I remember seeing a picture of a collapsed U-boat pen that had been discovered a few years back with 2 U-boats still inside it. Anyone know where I can find that picture?
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PUNT - This sounds too interesting to let fall into obscurity.
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U-Boat bases (http://www.uboat.net/flotillas/bases/index.html)
I vaguely remember seeing something similar...buggered if I know where though, try this anyhow...some interesting recent pics of U-boat bases
Tronsky
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didnt they end up closing it off permanently? I thought they filled it full of concrete or something like that.
Cant really remember though.
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Having visited the St Nazaire U-Boot pen I find hard to believe one collapsed :)
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I've seen the pic...
Several subs were inside as well, I think the landowner or gov't filled it in with gravel, burying the contents in the end...
Try Subsim.com
SKurj
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Ebe II bunker in Hamburg (http://www.uboat.net/articles/index.html?article=27)
One of the few sites I read regularly on the Internet is Uboat.net. If you have any interest in all in the submarine war of WW2 you will find it a fascinating collect of information that is unrivaled on this subject.
The boats you ask about were ignored until 1985 when they were re discovered. Unfortunately they were scavenged over the years and are probably missing most anything that could be cut off and carried away. The collapsed bunker was filled with gravel as a safety precaution so now the boats are entombed forever.
Read all about it at the link posted above..
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The fact they buried the subs really P^%$$es me off!!
Sure it would have been a huge undertaking to get any of them out, but man what a loss...
SKurj
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Yep SKurj same goes for me!!! Its a shame!
In my home town Bremen we have the biggest U-Boat bunker of WW2 its name is Valentin
482m length, 98m width, 30m height; built by 35.000 KZ detainees where many lost their lives. Very impressing!
(http://www.vegesack.de:8080/kunden/kono/luftbilder/mp_entries/getEntryFieldbyPath/1078675818.38/f1000968649/Farge-Bunker-Valentin-80-er.jpg)
(http://www.knobore.de/db_IMG_02453.jpg)
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That's the one I was thinking of. I looked through uboat.net yesterday but didn't see that page. Thanks.
Very interesting story I think. It's a shame they filled it in.
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You know looking at the picture posted by Duedel I have wonder how hard it was to drag the U-boats that last 50' into the bunker.
I can imagine the U-Boat commander returning from patrol and telling the crew to jump down and grab a line and pull the boat up over the road.
Makes you wonder why the silly Germans did not build the bunker with the door in the water.
(http://www.vegesack.de:8080/kunden/kono/luftbilder/view_html?key=1078223742.4)
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Originally posted by SKurj
The fact they buried the subs really P^%$$es me off!!
Sure it would have been a huge undertaking to get any of them out, but man what a loss...
SKurj
I agree. However, you have to look at the current efforts to save/salvage/restore US WW2 subs to see that there really isn't much interest in old subs by the general public anymore. And that is the real tragedy.
I look at it this way; burying those 3 boats just might save them if they don't turn into rust stains. Eventually, someday, hopefully somebody will decide that its fiscally sound to do an archeological dig on the site and recove the 3 boats for a museum. As it was, the boats were being slowly cut up for scrap by thieves.
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Originally posted by Habu
You know looking at the picture posted by Duedel I have wonder how hard it was to drag the U-boats that last 50' into the bunker.
I can imagine the U-Boat commander returning from patrol and telling the crew to jump down and grab a line and pull the boat up over the road.
Makes you wonder why the silly Germans did not build the bunker with the door in the water.
(http://www.vegesack.de:8080/kunden/kono/luftbilder/view_html?key=1078223742.4)
*LOL* Habu :D
A few more facts. Sure this bunker had very huge doors rigth to the river Weser. The bunker never was finished so they did not made the break through to the Weser.
The bunker was built to churn out U-Boats. A minimum of 4000 forced labors died during the construction period.
One of the most impressive things at the bunker is a memorial in front of it. Its a shame i cant find any pic on the internet. It describes in a very appalling kind the torure these workers suffered but shows at the same time that those workers wont be broken.