Secret Room - Nazi bunker

[Big_Richard]

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[nathan]

this could be actually pretty cool. however, i read page 1 with the pics and page 123...i have the short attention, what do i miss in the middle?

[Big_Richard]

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[WGB]

Managed to get to page 70 but have to go to a Wedding in an hours time.

There is a lot of humerous humanity and clever use of the language as only the Brits know how as well as a wonderful sense of the ridiculous.

Also having more than a passing interest in the Veiled Allegories of this world it is interesting to find the meaning of 88 in the NeoNazi Fascist world of which I know very little.

Bill

[oscar]

I didn't get past the first post   I saw the blog and went there instead http://gardenbunker.blogspot.com/2008/06/background.html

It's a fascinating story.  I love this stuff.  Anyone pick up where this place is?  I think I missed that detail.

I've always found those archaelogical shows fascinating, not that I can remember what they're called.  There's two English ones I've seen off and on - one with Baldrick (of black adder fame) and another that digs up usually centries old battlefields.  It's amazing what gets forgotten and how quick nature reclaims relics.  But on both shows I remember seeing the odd WW2 site dug up and it amazes me the hard time they have on finding history on of a bunker or wreckage etc considering the events are fairly recent.

Here's a couple of interesting sites to dig if you could.

Firstly, a former colleague showed me a few pictures about 8 years ago taken by his father that was a refueller for the RAAF in Papua.  At the end of the war with so much to dispose of, the USAAF dug a big hole and buried a bunch of shiny B24's.  I saw this pic and have tried to chase it up but he says his siblings have the photos now.  I vaguely remember seeing a few planes stacked on top of each other in a big pit.

Secondly, more folklore perhaps then true.  I've heard of a bunch of Harley Davidson's supposedly in crates in knockdown/rebuild form that arrived as the war was ending.  The army decided to keep them just in case and buried them under tennis courts or firing range (can't remember the myth exactly) at Singleton army base NSW.

Anyway, great link Pat thanks.

[Big_Richard]

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[WGB]

It's an old ammunition bunker that was part of an Anti-aircraft battery in Jersey.

Bill

[WGB]

Just finshed the whole 127 pages.

Yes it's all in the blog but there have been some priceless moments with side splitting laughter at times.

Not the worst way to spend a rainy Sunday morning.

Considering I spent a lot of my youth exploring the old tunnelled fortifications around where I grew up  it is a pretty insignificant little bunker but have enjoyed the thread.

Thanks Patrick.

Bill

[Big_Richard]

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[WGB]

I grew up in the suburb of Miramar in Wellington New Zealand.

Directly the other side of the hill where I grew up was an airforce Flying boat base and the hill between was filled with old tunnels and old military fortifications dating back to the expected Russian Invasioon of 1890

Bill

[oscar]

Miramar?  That's where Top Gun is.  No wonder the Russians invaded

Actually, I didn't know the Russians invaded NZ in 1890. I'm going to have to look that one up WGB.  Imagine if they succeded in taking over NZ, at least you'd be able to decipher that Russian parts site for us all 

[WGB]

The Russians never actually invaded but there was an expectation that they could and I know for sure that Wellington and Dunedin Harbours were fortified.

There is still an emplacement with a "disappearing gun" at the entrance to Dunedin Harbour and the same type of gun and emplacement is found on the hill over Albany in Western Australia.

The Russian Navy did actually leave Vladivostock en masse in the 1890's and in what is considered the greatest feat of seamanship up to that time sailed all the way around Europe, Africa and Asia and sailed for Japan where the fleet was met and sunk by the Japanese Navy as soon as it arrived.

Bill

[Mforcer]

That blog is a great read. And more still to come Thanks for the link!

[kolin]

i am very bluddy cheesed off.
i went and read the first page.interesting. went to the blog ang its damn difficult to find the correct order of pages..
maybe its friday afternoon and my brain is fried after a week of hard work.