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Brest Der größte UBootBunker des Krieges
During the war, Brest was attacked over 80 times by Allied bombers, but it would take until August 1944 before they succeeded in penetrating the roof of the pens when the bunker received 9 direct hits from big "Tallboy" bombs. Submarine pen Surrendered German U-boats moored outside the Dora I bunker in Trondheim, Norway, May 1945 A submarine pen ( U-Boot-Bunker in German) is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. Blick auf den Hafen Brest: Dort steht noch immer der größte U-Boot Bunker der Deutschen aus dem 2. Weltkrieg. Er wird heute von der französischen Marine genutzt..more.more Der größte. Brest is still a submarine base, now serving the French Navy of course, and the bunker is still in use today. U-boat bases The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat.
BREST Blick auf den Hafen + UBoot Bunker * View of the harbor * Submarine bunker WWII YouTube
Brest France Bretagne Brest This U-boat bunker is located in Brest. The bunker was 192 x 333m in size and the roof of the bunker was 6,2m thick. The bunker was constructed in the period January 1941 - July 1942 and had a capacity of 20 U-boats. The site cannot be visited and only be photographed from a distance. Deutsch: Die U-Boot-Reparaturwerft Brest war eine von der deutschen Kriegsmarine eingerichtete Werft im französischen Atlantikhafen Brest, die von 1940 bis 1944 bestand. Upload media Instance of submarine base Part of Brest Arsenal reinforced concrete Location Brest Finistère, Brittany, Metropolitan France, France Heritage designation Inception The U-boat bunker at Brest was 333 metres wide, 192 metres long and roughly 17 metres high. The area covered was a record 52,000 square metres. The bunker was actually two structures, the first consisting of 13 pens, A to E and 1 to 8, the second of pens 9 and 10. The thickness of the roof was 3.6m in the first structure and 4.3 above pens 9. The history of the german U-boat base at Brest, home port of the 1st and 9th uboat flotillas from 1941 to 1944.
UBOOTS in UBOOT BUNKER Uboots, German submarines, Submarines
Français : Appartient à une collection de tirages photographiques de sous-marins de la marine allemande pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La photo montre un sous-marin allemand dans un bunker sous-marin dans la ville portuaire française de Brest. Le personnel maritime est engagé dans diverses activités de maintenance. beeldbankwo2.nl 66 Want to Visit? 341 The submarine pens in La Rochelle. Pep.per de Ré/CC BY-SA 2.5 In April of 1941, laborers began building the concrete behemoths in La Rochelle's harbor. The massive pens were.
Two Type VIIs undergo refit in the massive U-boat pens in St. Nazaire, occupied France. The protection offered by these bunkers were adequate throughout the early years of the war, until 1943 or 1944 when the Allies introduced the Tallboy and Grand Slam bunker buster bombs. These 12,000 and 22,000 lbs bombs scored numerous direct hits and. Brest was captured by the allied forced on September 21, 1944 after a fierce month-long battle which caused US forces over 10,000 casualities and almost wiped out the entire town. Brest is still a submarine base, now serving the French Navy of course, and the bunker is still in use today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=15hYE2ypcRU
30 images of the amazing UBoat pens Some Images You Wouldn't Have Seen Before
The detailled story of the german U-boat bases of the second world war in France. Read the history of each base, get some phtos, and discover the german submarines which participated in the Battle of the Atlantic.. . Home ; Brest . Description ; Map ; Photo gallery ; Lorient . History ; Jacques STOSSKOPF ; Scorff bunker ; Kéroman 1. The most northerly of Germany's U-Boat sites in France
