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“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
C. JoyBell C.
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I'm in Asheville! It's cold, but it's fun. I'll be here for the next week, so uploads might be a bit slow. But I am taking lots and lots of pictures. :)
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The statue commemorates the famous V-J embrace in Times Square, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The statue itself has provided some debate on it's "artistic merit" and spent several years being moved from Florida to San Diego to New Jersey and eventually back to San Diego. Given the large veteran population that resides in the greater San Diego area, it seems an appropriate locale.
Love it or hate it, it's a wonderful photo op, is conveniently located near the USS Midway museum and the nearby Fish Market restaurant is fantastic.
Mount Templeton.
The first pastoralists here were Philip Butler (of Mallala) and Alexander Grant who took up a 27 square mile leasehold in 1851 which covered most of what were to become the Hundreds of Stow, Everard and Goyder. In 1854 a trig point for surveyors was established on the highest peak here which was called Mount Templeton probably after one of the surveyors. In the early 1860s most of the run was resumed and taken up by Edmund Bowman of Werocata on the Wakefield River. He used the name Mount Templeton for it. In 1868 Charles Burney Young bought up land previously held by Bowman when he purchased most of the Hundred of Stow and parts of the Hundred of Everard. He called his freehold property Mount Templeton Station. So when farmers decided on a name for the locale in early 1872 they called it Templeton too. Although the Hundred of Stow was declared in 1862 land sales only began in 1871. It was named by Governor Dominic Daly after Randolph Stow who was a politician who served as Attorney-General of South Australia from 1861 to 1863 and again from 1864 to 1865. In 1875 after his political career had ended Stow was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court. But he died three years later aged 49 years. In June 1884 Charles Burney Young sold his Mount Templeton Station to Mssrs Freebairn, Hall and Young. He had been elected to the SA Legislative Council in 1878 and began disposing of his lands. Eventually two Young brother, not related to Charles Burney Young, owned Mount Templeton Station which they in turn sold to the state government in 1906. They sold over 20,000 acres freehold for £54,000 and they surrendered almost 11,000 acres of other land. The estate was resurveyed and 30 new farms and sections of land were created. These sections were sold in 1907 ranging in size from 400 acres to 1,000 acres. The acreage under wheat in the Hundred of Everard doubled from 1907 to 1912. At first farmers carted their wheat to a rail siding near Bowmans but from 1923 they carted it to nearby Bumbunga siding.
A Wesleyan Church was built in 1872 on an acre of donated land. A new Wesleyan Church was built across the road from this early one in 1885 and it still exists. In 1937 the organ from the closing Watchman Methodist Church was donated to this church. It closed as a church in 1969. A government school opened here in 1881 to the north of the later 1885 church. When the school closed in 1951 the last teacher lived in the schoolroom and drove the school bus to Balaklava until 1973. A few kilometres to the north is the Mount Templeton Peace Hall. It was built in 1921. The land was donated by Patrick Howard and the building cost £1,000. Patrick Howard had purchased 1,048 acres from the Mount Templeton Station in 1907. Apart from social functions the Peace Hall was used for Catholic masses for 1923 to 1937. In 1954 a galvanised iron supper room was added to the rear of it. By 1977 the hall had few members and was about to close. It is now a vacant ruin. The old Mount Templeton Station homestead is down the road to the east of the Peace Hall and it dates from around 1860 and the property included a chapel, stales, coach shed and a school.
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I imagined this as my surrender to winter, though it's not very peaceful in my case so interpret it as you'd like :) before and after on my facebook page below! Happy Friday!
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Her own weapon turned against her, and the heady fumes of chloroform rapidly sapping her strength, Poppy can no longer resist as her muscles go limp, her vision becomes hazy, and everything fades to black ...
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A really beautiful sim. Check underwater as well.
Postcard issued showing :
Surrendered U Boats from the German Imperial Navy surrendered after World War I and moored up at Harwich.
It’s not often that I “surrender the waist” and wear something that hangs straight from my shoulders to hips. I skipped the belt today to make airport security simpler and give myself more comfort on the plane ride.
Poncho, Christopher & Banks. Dress, Jovovich Hawk for Target. Tights, Anne Klein. Leg warmers, Apostrophe. Boots, Sam Edelman. Sunglasses, Target. Bag, Canvas Boutique.
Security was a breeze. In fact, the agents weren’t requiring passengers to remove their shoes . . . unless there was metal in them, so I still had to take off my studded boots. On the plane, I was SO comfortable that I slept until Reno. (Well, let’s be honest. I fall asleep on the plane every time, no matter what I’m wearing.)
CameraNikon D300
Exposure0.005 sec (1/200)
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ISO Speed200
ABR800 Camera right at 1/32 from 3 feet away.
Yugoslavian postcard by Gezi, no. C 1966.
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Deputy Police Commissioner Jim Battle with some of the weapons.
Police across the North West received over 800 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition during the ‘Give Up The Gun’ firearms surrender.
The haul includes a number of live and deactivated weapons including rifles, shotguns, handguns and air weapons as well as some imitation and antique firearms. The most unusual items include a replica AK-47, a number of wartime relics and a Smith & Wesson pistol.
The surrender ran from 4 April – 18 April 2016, where six police forces asked members of the public to surrender unlawfully held or unwanted guns and ammunition, to help prevent them getting into the wrong hands.
The surrender gave the public the chance to dispose of firearms or ammunition quickly and anonymously by simply taking it to a local police station and handing it in. During that period, those surrendering firearms did not face prosecution for the illegal possession. A total of 836 weapons were surrendered across all counties.
In Greater Manchester, 221 weapons were handed over, with thousands of rounds of ammunition yet to be counted.
GMP Assistant Chief Constable John O’Hare (pictured) said:
“The 2016 firearm surrender was a remarkable success and I am delighted that we have managed to remove over 220 weapons from the streets of Greater Manchester.
"The surrender may be over, but our commitment to tackle gun crime is not. There will be continued efforts from GMP, our colleagues across the North West and our partners as we work together to safeguard, educate and intervene at the earliest opportunity."
Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said:
“Guns bring devastation, causing serious injury, fatalities and misery to families and communities so every weapon and piece of ammunition taken off the street is to be welcomed. These weapons are now in safe hands and out of the hands of criminals.
“I want to thank those people of Greater Manchester who have come forward to surrender weapons and ammunition and play a vital role in making our communities safer.
“The success of the surrender sends out a clear message that guns have no place in our communities and while the surrender may be over, we will continue to work together with local people to achieve our ambition of safer, gun-free streets.”
Greater Manchester Police works closely with the firearms licensing department and license holders to support the hundreds of law abiding citizens who already own firearms safely and legally.
ACC O’Hare added:
“This is about tackling gun crime. If you are a license holder or qualified collector of firearms, please conduct regular checks to ensure your weapons are secured and cannot be tampered with.”
Members of the public can always hand weapons to the police, whether license holders or otherwise. If a weapon is discovered during a house clearance or inherited or found, do not wait for a campaign like this to get it off the streets – trained staff will always be on hand to secure unwanted weapons. Just call your local police enquiry desk or 101 for assistance.
Full breakdown for NW (weapons surrendered, exc ammunition):
Greater Manchester: 221
Merseyside: 140
Lancashire: 139
North Wales: 116
Cheshire: 127
Cumbria: 93
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Firstly I would like to acknowledge the distress caused by the deatha nad destruction caused to the many millions of people under the Nazi fascist regime in Germany prior to, and during WW II. In particular the ongoing pain caused by symbols used by the regime, including the 'Swastika', or four-legged cross. The depiction of the Swastika on the sail planes of the Zeppelin model is as a depiction of an historical artifact, in the context of it's place in history. No offense is intended in its use.
Please note the text regarding the placement of the Swastika on the Zeppelin airships during the 1930s, below.
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's ideas were first formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They were patented in Germany in 1895 and in the United States in 1899. After the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the word zeppelin came to be commonly used to refer to all rigid airships. Zeppelins were first flown commercially in 1910 by Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG), the world's first airline in revenue service. By mid-1914, DELAG had carried over 10,000 fare-paying passengers on over 1,500 flights. During World War I the German military made extensive use of Zeppelins as bombers and scouts, killing over 500 people in bombing raids in Britain.
The defeat of Germany in 1918 temporarily halted the airship business. Although DELAG established a scheduled daily service between Berlin, Munich, and Friedrichshafen in 1919, the airships built for this service eventually had to be surrendered under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which also prohibited Germany from building large airships. An exception was made allowing the construction of one airship for the US Navy, which saved the company from extinction. In 1926 the restrictions on airship construction were lifted and with the aid of donations from the public work was started on the construction of LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. This revived the company' fortunes, and during the 1930s when the airships Graf Zeppelin and the larger LZ 129 Hindenburg operated regular transatlantic flights from Germany to North America and Brazil. The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally, if impractically, designed to serve as a mooring mast for Zeppelins and other airships. The Hindenburg disaster in 1937, along with political and economic issues, hastened the demise of the Zeppelins.
The principal feature of Zeppelin's design was a fabric-covered rigid metal framework made up from transverse rings and longitudinal girders containing a number of individual gasbags. The advantage of this design was that the aircraft could be much larger than non-rigid airships, which relied on a slight overpressure within the single pressure envelope to maintain their shape. The framework of most Zeppelins was made of duralumin. Early Zeppelins used rubberised cotton for the gasbags, but most later craft used goldbeater's skin, made from the intestines of cattle.
The first Zeppelins had long cylindrical hulls with tapered ends and complex multi-plane fins. During World War I, following the lead of their rivals Schütte-Lanz Luftschiffbau, the design changed to the more familiar streamlined shape with cruciform tail surfaces, as used by almost all later airships.
With the delivery of LZ 126, the Zeppelin company had reasserted its lead in rigid airship construction, but it was not yet quite back in business. In 1926 restrictions on airship construction were relaxed by the Locarno treaties, but acquiring the necessary funds for the next project proved a problem in the difficult economic situation of post-World-War-I Germany, and it took Eckener two years of lobbying and publicity work to secure the realization of LZ 127.
Another two years passed before 18 September 1928, when the new dirigible, christened Graf Zeppelin in honour of the Count, flew for the first time. With a total length of 236.6 metres (776 ft) and a volume of 105,000 m3, it was the largest dirigible to have been built at the time. Eckener's initial purpose was to use Graf Zeppelin for experimental and demonstration purposes to prepare the way for regular airship traveling, carrying passengers and mail to cover the costs. In October 1928 its first long-range voyage brought it to Lakehurst, the voyage taking 112 hours and setting a new endurance record for airships. Eckener and his crew, which included his son Hans, were once more welcomed enthusiastically, with confetti parades in New York and another invitation to the White House. Graf Zeppelin toured Germany and visited Italy, Palestine, and Spain. A second trip to the United States was aborted in France due to engine failure in May 1929.
The Graf Zeppelin (I):
In August 1929 Graf Zeppelin departed for another daring enterprise: a circumnavigation of the globe. The growing popularity of the "giant of the air" made it easy for Eckener to find sponsors. One of these was the American press tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who requested that the tour officially start in Lakehurst. As with the October 1928 flight to New York, Hearst had placed a reporter, Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay, on board: she therefore became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by air. From there, Graf Zeppelin flew to Friedrichshafen, then Tokyo, Los Angeles, and back to Lakehurst, in 21 days 5 hours and 31 minutes. Including the initial and final trips between Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst and back, the dirigible had traveled 49,618 kilometres (30,831 mi).
In the following year, Graf Zeppelin undertook trips around Europe, and following a successful tour to Recife, Brazil in May 1930, it was decided to open the first regular transatlantic airship line. This line operated between Frankfurt and Recife, and was later extended to Rio de Janeiro, with a stop in Recife. Despite the beginning of the Great Depression and growing competition from fixed-wing aircraft, LZ 127 transported an increasing volume of passengers and mail across the ocean every year until 1936. The ship made another spectacular voyage in July 1931 when it made a seven- day research trip to the Arctic. This had already been a dream of Count von Zeppelin twenty years earlier, which could not be realized at the time due to the outbreak of war.
Eckener intended to follow the successful airship by another larger Zeppelin, designated LZ 128. This was to be powered by eight engines 232 m (761 ft) with a capacity of 199,980 m3 (7,062,100 cu ft). However the loss of the British passenger airship R101 on 5 October 1930 led the Zeppelin company to reconsider the safety of hydrogen-filled vessels, and the design was abandoned in favour of a new project, LZ 129. This was intended to be filled with inert helium.
The coming to power of the Nazi Party in 1933 had important consequences for Zeppelin Luftschiffbau. Zeppelins became a propaganda tool for the new regime: they would now display the Nazi swastika on their fins and occasionally tour Germany to play march music and propaganda speeches to the people. In 1934 Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, contributed two million reichsmarks towards the construction of LZ 129 and in 1935 Hermann Goering established a new airline directed by Ernst Lehmann, the Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei, as a subsidiary of Lufthansa to take over Zeppelin operations. Hugo Eckener was an outspoken anti-Nazi: complaints about the use of Zeppelins for propaganda purposes in 1936 led Goebbels to declare "Dr. Eckener has placed himself outside the pale of society. Henceforth his name is not to be mentioned in the newspapers and his photograph is not to be published".
On 4 March 1936 LZ 129 Hindenburg (named after former President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg) made its first flight. The Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built. It had been designed to use non-inflammable helium, but the only supplies of the gas were controlled by the United States, who refused to allow its export. So, in what proved to be a fatal decision, the Hindenburg was filled with flammable hydrogen. Apart from the propaganda missions, LZ 129 was used on the transatlantic service alongside Graf Zeppelin.
The Hindenburg on fire in 1937
On 6 May 1937, while landing in Lakehurst after a transatlantic flight, the tail of the ship caught fire, and within seconds, the Hindenburg burst into flames, killing 35 of the 97 people on board and one member of the ground crew. The cause of the fire has not been definitively determined. The investigation into the accident concluded that static electricity had ignited hydrogen which had leaked from the gasbags, although there were allegations of sabotage. 13 passengers and 22 crew, including Ernst Lehmann, were killed.
Despite the apparent danger, there remained a list of 400 people who still wanted to fly as Zeppelin passengers and had paid for the trip. Their money was refunded in 1940.
Graf Zeppelin was retired one month after the Hindenburg wreck and turned into a museum. The intended new flagship Zeppelin was completed in 1938 and, inflated with hydrogen, made some test flights (the first on 14 September), but never carried passengers. Another project, LZ 131, designed to be even larger than Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II, never progressed beyond the production of a few ring frames.
Graf Zeppelin II was assigned to the Luftwaffe and made about 30 test flights prior to the beginning of World War II. Most of those flights were carried out near the Polish border, first in the Sudeten mountains region of Silesia, then in the Baltic Sea region. During one such flight LZ 130 crossed the Polish border near the Hel Peninsula, where it was intercepted by a Polish Lublin R-XIII aircraft from Puck naval airbase and forced to leave Polish airspace. During this time, LZ 130 was used for electronic scouting missions, and was equipped with various measuring equipment. In August 1939, it made a flight near the coastline of Great Britain in an attempt to determine whether the 100-metre towers erected from Portsmouth to Scapa Flow were used for aircraft radio location. Photography, radio wave interception, magnetic and radio frequency analysis were unable to detect operational British Chain Home radar due to searching in the wrong frequency range. The frequencies searched were too high, an assumption based on the Germans' own radar systems. The mistaken conclusion was the British towers were not connected with radar operations, but were for naval radio communications.
After the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September, the Luftwaffe ordered LZ 127 and LZ 130 moved to a large Zeppelin hangar in Frankfurt, where the skeleton of LZ 131 was also located. In March 1940 Göering ordered the scrapping of the remaining airships, and on 6 May the Frankfurt hangars were demolished.
(Text taken from excerpts on Wikipedia)
There are some spectacular images of Zeppelins in various situations. Beyond the spectacular images captured at the crash of the Hindenburg, there are artistic impressions of the planned airship docking station at the top of the Empire State Building in New York, with airships docked there. Additionally, prior to the Hindenburg crash, the airship flew over Manhattan Island, Swastikas in clear view, right over the Empire State Building, prior to the crash in New Jersey an hour or so later.
Maybach DS8 Zeppelin Cabriolet Sphon Streamliner
Wilhelm Maybach, collaborator and friend of Gottlieb Daimler and the ingenious designer of the “Mercedes”, the first “proper” car, left Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, where he had worked as Chief Engineer, in 1907. Together with his son, Karl, he started developing his own engines which in his opinion were excellently suited to driving the airships which had just begun cruising the skies. He approached Count Zeppelin, convinced him of the quality and performance of his engines and together they founded "Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH“ in Bissingen near Stuttgart in 1909. Maybach’s son Karl was appointed Technical Director of this new aero engine company.
In 1912, the company – an early joint venture – moved to Friedrichshafen, to premises adjacent to Count Zeppelin’s airship factory. Until around 1920, Wilhelm Maybach intensively supported his son in his development work, bringing forth top-quality and highly progressive petrol and diesel engines as well as transmissions over several decades.
In 1921, Karl Maybach began producing his own cars in Friedrichshafen, engaging in the manufacture and assembly of frame, suspension, engine, transmission, radiator, firewall and major components. Maybach and his staff were less interested in bodywork design – this was the realm of specialist bodybuilders who tailored their designs to the customers’ wishes.
Close cooperation developed in the course of the years with the bodybuilding company of Herrmann Spohn in nearby Ravensburg; they even engaged in the manufacture of mini-series. Nevertheless, Spohn had to share the cake with other bodybuilders like Gläser in Dresden, Auer in Stuttgart and Neuss and Erdmann & Rossi in Berlin, to name but a few.
Thanks to their outstanding engineering, smooth-running engines and the quality appointments of the bodies, crafted by hand to the customers’ wishes, the exclusive Maybach cars very quickly established themselves in the world market – as limousines, voluminous Pullman versions, two-to-seven-seater coupés, cabriolets and roadsters. They were direct competitors of – and in the opinion of some contemporaries even superior to – the “Grand Mercedes”, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Isotta-Fraschini and other luxury models.
The Maybach “Zeppelin” is one of the most famous models in the line-up of international luxury cars from the nineteen-thirties – a terrific twelve-cylinder car that was built in numerous versions between 1930 and 1937.
A contemporary test report enthused “... The Maybach Zeppelin models rank among the few cars in the international top class. They are highly luxurious, extremely lavish in their engineering and attainable only for a chosen few, not only on account of the small series in which these splendid cars are built.” (Allgemeine Automobilzeitung 1933, no. 35).
The Maybach Zeppelin DS 8, model year 1932, with chassis number 1387, and today owned by the Mercedes-Benz Museum, is one of these luxury limousines. Its completely restored bodywork, specially tailored by Messrs. Spohn in Ravensburg, is a four-door six-to-seven-seater cabriolet with long wheelbase and ample space for feeling at ease in comfortable leather chairs. Itself a feast for the eyes, the eight-litre V12 engine (number 25041) is still in a virtually “straight-from-the-factory” condition and in perfect working order. It develops its power of 200 hp at a maximum of 3200 revolutions per minute in superior style – the epitome of smoothness – and gives the car a top speed of 170 kilometres per hour.
(Text Courtesy of Daimler-Benz Corporation)
The Lego miniland-scale Graf Zeppelin II airship and the Maybach DS8 Zeppelin Cabriolet Spohn Streamliner have been created for Flickr LUGNuts 79th Build Challenge, - "LUGNuts goes Wingnuts", - featuring automotive vehicles named after, inspired by, or connected to aircraft.
The gloves are coming off. I surrender.
You take me in
No questions asked
You strip away the ugliness
That surrounds me
Are you an angel
♥. Can't get any better than that.
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Each year I pick a word for the New Year
This year my word is:
SURRENDER
Illustrations & Photos Copyright: Gabby Bernstein
All of us have always had a very difficult choice moment. A lot of doors that open new paths and new fates in front of us, depending on our election our future changes, sometimes a little some times radically. This photo represents human choices and their consequences. Talking about this, I strongly recommend watching "Mr. Nobody" a film that will make you think a little bit about the choices you've made in your life.
oh boy, did I cut it fine this morning! lol :)
At about 11:50am I suddenly went "OMG I haven't done my morning shot!!" and started racing around :)
I grabbed the camera and took Daisy for a run in the backyard.
This is one of my fave morning shots so far :D I really love it :D
Especially as I took it at about 2 minutes to 12 :P
On March 15, 906, a group of Benedictine monks, fleeing a bloody Viking raid and carrying the holy remains of the saints Maixent and Léger, left their abbey of Saint Maixent in the Poitou (western France) to seek refuge with the King Charles III in the small town of Ébreuil. Located in the old province of Bourbonnais, nowadays the département of Allier and thus incorporated into the region of Auvergne (central France), Ébreuil was then one of the five official royal places of residence established by King Louis the First (also called “the Pious” or “the Debonair”) a century before, in the early 800s.
Charles received them and gave them shelter in the royal chapel. The monks kept the holy relics of Saint Léger but had to surrender those of Maixent to King Solomon of Brittany, who installed them in a monastery in Plélan.
The monks settled in Ébreuil subsequently received land donated by King Lothair and began erecting a first monastery and church in 926. As the relics of Léger were so venerated and made so many miracles, the influence of the new monastery grew rapidly, and in 1080, Pope Gregory VII made it a full-fledged abbey belonging to the Order of Saint Benedict.
The church we can see today is the second built on the site. Construction began probably around 1040, when it became obvious that the original one, built between 961 and 1025, had become much too small to accommodate all the pilgrims that thronged to venerate the relics of Léger, in addition to the 50+ monks of the abbey. The church incorporates elements from the late Carolingian period, as well as the Romanesque Era, and even a few elements from the emerging Gothic Age, making it a very interesting example of all those architectural styles.
The nave and the transept are purely Romanesque, from the 11th century, while the apse, mostly late Romanesque, features a coupe of flying buttresses (“arcs-boutants”) that denote a Gothic inspiration. While some columns and capitals in the nave are from the late 900s, the alfresco paintings on the walls, particularly well preserved, were created between 1085 and 1120.
Finally, the massive clocher-porche (“bell tower-porch”) is reminiscent of an Ottonian westwerk, and of course of the same structure built in the abbey church of Fleury in La Charité-sur-Loire, a very famous place we visited some time ago. I will post a photo of that clocher-porche below the first photo in this current series about Ébreuil.
Decorative motifs and sculpted capitals on the side of the clocher-porche.
Urbex Benelux -
After the surrender of the Netherlands, the airport fell into German hands on May 15. It was prepared for reuse and expanded. Aircraft stands, shelters and bunkers were built in the northern part. The field was better drained and roads were built. In the autumn of 1940 the airfield was put back into use. In the period 1940-1944 the Luftwaffe units 7, 8 and 9 of the JagdGeschwader 54 flying with Messerschmitt Bf109E 's and a flak group were stationed at flugplatz Bergen . They had regional air defense and air escort of ships or convoysas tasks. German bombers also occasionally used the airfield as an alternate airport.