What a brilliant place.
Submarine pen roof gun.
Unfinished german submarine pen at cherbourg.
The valentin submarine factory is a protective shelter on the weser river at the bremen suburb of rekum de.
Did the british ever consider bombarding u boat pens with naval gun fire.
All reviews world war u boat lock roof monument operation pens basin submarine waterfront raid chariot.
Entries of the submarines pens of keroman iii viewed from the harbor and at the bottom left keroman i photo.
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Keroman i and keroman iii lorient.
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.
The roof above is filled with anti aircraft weaponry machine guns and mortars.
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Roof of the u boat base in saint nazaire.
The base offers 14 submarine pens.
Post by damper 06 oct 2019 17 24 obviously early in the war moving capital ships within a few miles of the coast would have ended badly.
Entrance to submarine pen on croatia.
Drop out of the duct and walk through the building and all.
Well worth a visit.
The lock is 155 meter long 25 meter wide and 14 meter high.
Three u boats in a submarine pen at trondheim 19 may 1945.
Climb up and head down the duct until you arrive at the submarine pen.
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Totally blown away by the size of this place.
By the autumn of 1940 construction of the elbe ii bunker in hamburg and nordsee iii on the island of heligoland was under way.
In this area be careful to avoid any guards pulling the alarm.
The term is generally applied to submarine bases constructed during world war ii particularly in germany and its occupied countries which were also known as u boat pens after the phrase u boat to refer to german submarines.
Later between 1943 and early 1944 a fortified lock was built to protect submarines during their transfer from the loire river and the pens.
An raf raid on the capital in 1940 plus the occupation of france and great britain s refusal to surrender was enough to trigger a massive building programme of submarine pens and air raid shelters.
The roof is dotted with anti aircraft weaponry machine guns and mortars.
Pens 9 through 14 are simple docks 62 metres long and 17 metres wide each holding two submarines.
Been here twice now.
