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05Mar

Air Superiority

By johnAuthor /
5 Mar ’13 /
In The Military, The Out In The Open /
Last Update 5 Mar ’13 /
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Apparently, some enthusiast in the nearby city had picked these beasts up many years ago, then, lacking sufficient living room space to put them on display (or facing a barrage of “OH NO YOU’RE NOT BRINGING MORE OF THAT SOVIET CRAP INTO MY HOUSE”), left them standing around, exposed to the elements.

17Sep

Air Raid!

By johnAuthor /
17 Sep ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Military, The Tunnels /
Last Update 17 Sep ’12 /
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The only information I’ve found about this facility associates it with a Wehrmacht regional headquarters, but others more informed than I have claimed that it’s a bog standard civilian design. The fluorescent markings leading towards the exits were still visible, causing us to waste a hilarious amount of time repeatedly ruining our night vision with flash guns and high-powered torches to get things to shine “just right”.

02Apr

Duck and Cover

By johnAuthor /
2 Apr ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Military, The Tunnels /
Last Update 2 Apr ’12 /

An underground French military command center in the heart of a massive abandoned Maginot Line fortress. From the 1950s until France’s eviction of NATO in 1967, the facility served as one of three command centers for German, French, American, and British forces, to coordinate nuclear response to an expected Warsaw Pact attack.

19Mar

Bunker Busters

By johnAuthor /
19 Mar ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Military, The Tunnels /
Last Update 19 Mar ’12 /

In the 1920s, determined to avoid a repeat of the kind of slaughter witnessed in the trenches around Verdun, which bled out a good proportion of its male population, the French government established CORF, the Commission d’Organisation des Régions Fortifiées, to create an impregnable network of border fortresses facing Germany.

10Mar

The Little Bunker That Could

By johnAuthor /
10 Mar ’12 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Military, The Tunnels /
Last Update 10 Mar ’12 /

Typical of Maginot Line fortifications, this fortress consists of a long central tunnel with underground electrical railway, separate munitions and personnel entrance bunkers, repair shops, huge magazines, escape tunnels, hospitals, kitchens, command posts, and everything else required to support hundreds of combat troops in relatively sheltered comfort under prolonged direct assault.

18Nov

Untergrundvergeltungswaffenlagerbunkerkomplex

By johnAuthor /
18 Nov ’11 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Military, The Tunnels /
Last Update 18 Nov ’11 /

Nazis, nazis, everywhere, them and their rockets. Terribly annoying, especially when they start hollowing out entire perfectly good mountains from which to spew forth their ballistic pollution. Here’s an unfinished WWII German V2 storage and marshaling facility in France.

24Jun

Wild Blue Yonder

By johnAuthor /
24 Jun ’11 /
In The Military /
Last Update 24 Jun ’11 /

Grass Ninja /græs, grɑs/ /ˈnɪndʒə/

Noun: A individual of superhuman stealthy qualities, relying on natural camouflage in the execution of his often illicit missions. Easily overlooked lying face-down in tall weeds due to his innate ability to blend in with surroundings. …

20Jun

Anchors Aweigh

By johnAuthor /
20 Jun ’11 /
In The Military /
Last Update 20 Jun ’11 /

Raiding the high seas (or rather the ship cemetery of the French Atlantic fleet).

15Jun

Tanks For The Memories

By johnAuthor /
15 Jun ’11 /
In The Military, The Trains /
Last Update 15 Jun ’11 /

The things you find when you poke around behind hedges…

05Jun

Airfield A-69

By johnAuthor /
5 Jun ’11 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Military /
Last Update 5 Jun ’11 /

A long-disused NATO military airfield in North-Western France.

03May

Fort du H.B.

By johnAuthor /
3 May ’11 /
In The Abandoned Places, The Military /
Last Update 3 May ’11 /

An old military fort outside of Paris