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Partly buried on the beach at Burnham on Sea are 30 concrete blocks with a fascinating war time history. The formed part of an ambitious war time project to build temporary harbours on the French coast.
More detail can be found here www.burnham-on-sea.com/mulberry-harbour.shtml
HSS
Behind the war curtain photography series.
Children pointing to some bullets impacts.
The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities and an exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War
Ektachrome 100 @35mm Pentax-M lens on Pentax-MX body - E6 Processing Jobo CPP2 - Digitized with Sony Alpha 6000. Edited in CameraRaw.
These concrete structures were designed to give early warning of German aircraft approaching the south coast. They were effective but made redundant by the invention of Radar.
Second World War British machine gun bunker @Labrador Park.
Visit with me in my blog: Labrador Park Visit
A long abandoned and sealed up WW2 pillbox, this sits on a hill near Ratcliffe on Soar power station, Nottinghamshire.
Missing bricks reveal the construction of the structure.
The limestone caves in Halong Bay provided refuge for the north Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. One of these caves on the island Cát Bà had been converted into a hospital.
It's difficult to come up with an unusual take on a well known subject such as this old gun-post which stands on the beach at Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast. But I thought the setting sun, cloud formation and low viewpoint was interesting. Let me know if you agree or disagree.
I have been trying to avoid hdr's as they are in my opinion overdone on Flickr (that's probably a controversial statement but its my view :-) !) but this was so contrasty that I had no choice really but to process it as a 'gentle' hdr in Photomatix.
It needs to be viewed on black.
My original visit was back in 2012, the Storehouse was vastly overgrown back then ( www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/sRmFG0 )
Speaking to a local chap, who informed me the area where the Storehouse is positioned was amongst the cattle sheds, recently cleared out by the current owner, the area may be put over for housing.
A different perspective
(wounded soldier)
draw your own cunclusion
Sony SLT-A77MkII
10th Anniversary Trip
{ Ce hangar de 1917 a aujourd'hui 100 ans, c'est le plus gros en Europe et le plus gros en béton du monde, occupé par les français, allemand et américain, il laisse encore des traces d'un combat sanglant à l’intérieur où les allemands retranchés se protéger derrières de vulgaire poutre }
[FR]
Immense comme une cathédrale de fer et de béton, avec 150 m de long, 40 m de large, 30 m de haut, le Hangar à dirigeables d’Ecausseville se dresse à la porte du Cotentin. Il est l’unique survivant des douze centres aéronautiques construits pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale par la Marine Nationale pour abriter des dirigeables chargés de combattre les sous-marins ennemis.
En 1917, l'Allemagne se lance dans une guerre sous-marine à outrance. Le Hangar abrite alors les dirigeables chasseurs de sous-marins.
En 1967, d'autres ballons expérimentaux y seront étudiés.
Il a servit comme entrepôt par les allemands en 40 qui faisaient souvent le voyage jusqu'à cherbourg leur base de replis
Utilisés comme base arrière pour les avions reliant Paris à Cherbourg, les hangars sont désaffectés en 1927, celui en bois est démonté en 1932. La Marine décide de supprimer les dirigeables en 1936, moins efficaces et plus onéreux que l'aviation. L'autre est transféré en 1939, au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, à la Direction d'artillerie navale de Cherbourg.
Pendant l’Occupation, les Allemands s’installent en juin 1940 sur la commune d’Ecausseville, Ils y stockent les canons de 155 mm appartenant à deux batteries et placent des positions pour mitrailleuse ainsi qu’une batterie de canons de 88 mm pour la défense du site.
A compter du 8 juin 1944, les Américains appartenant au 8th Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division) appuyés par les chars de l’escadron C du 70th Tank Battalion débutent le siège du site et du village d’Ecausseville. Ils sont opposés aux soldats allemands du Grenadier-Regiment 922, 243. Infanterie-Division et du Sturm-Bataillon AOK 7, 709. Infanterie-Division
Utilisant un feu roulant (Le feu roulant de l'artillerie est une technique de combat inventée en juillet 1918, qui applique la tactique du feu roulant sur l'armée allemande partout où elle recule, la désorganisant dans sa retraite.)
Les americains progresse à travers les haies et terrain vague jusqu'au hangar ou s'étaient planqué les allemands, s'en suis une bataille sanglante à l'interieur du hangar.
Ensuite les prisonniers capturés seront stocké ici.
Après la bataille, le hangar servira de centre d’entretien
des véhicules de l’US Army ainsi que de dépôt de matériel.
Les hommes du 105th bataillon de la 860th Ordonance Compagny
aidés par les prisonniers de guerre allemands occuperont
les lieux jusqu’à la fin de la guerre.
Entre 1967 et 1969, une partie du Hangar est réservée à la Direction des Applications Militaires du Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, pour la mise au point des ballons destinés aux essais des premières bombes H françaises à Mururoa.
Il s’agit de régler un système d’accrochage complexe des trois câbles devant assurer le maintien du ballon dans une position fixe ainsi que des câbles électriques assurant l’alimentation de l’amorce et de ceux assurant le transfert des signaux des nombreux appareils de mesure disposés sur le ballon et sur la bombe.
On peut remarquer des casemates de nid de mitrailleuse à l'entrée qui n'ont rien à voir avec celles des boches de 44.
[EN]
-The hangar at Ecausseville is one of the original two, who once stood here. The base was constructed in 1916 by the French navy during the First World war, so airships could from here patrol the waters against German U-Boats.The first hangar is long ago demolished, but the second, which was completed in 1919, still stands
-During the Second World War, the hangar was used by the Germans, to store material for building the Atlantic Wall in this region. After the landing by the Allies on June 6th, this became a goal for the 4th Division as a starting point towards Montebourg. When the 8th Regiment took hold of the hangar, this became the jump of point for Montebourg.
-The 3rd Battalion, 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne Div. moved right of the Carentan-Valognes railway track, heading forMagneville.
1st and 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Division had as jump of point right and left from around Fresville.
-German troops overhere consistedin this area, were elements of the 709- en de 243 infantery divisions, and units of the Sturm Bataljon AOK 7. After three attacks, the Germans finally retreated from Neuville-au-Plain.
To accomplish this the para’s of the 82nd were reinforced by GI’s from the 8th Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.
-At 06.30 hours, on June 9, the attack was continued after a 45 minute shelling by artillery. The 3rd and 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, 4th ID. moved between Fresville and Grainville towards Magneville.
The 1st Battalion, 8th Reg were pinned down and were stalled for a long time. The other two battalions crossed a meadow, but run into a creek, and could not move further.
The 456th Field Artillery Battalion was in position on June 11, and on 10.15 hours, a barrage of 15 minutes was shot into the German positions.
-On June 13, 359th Regiment, 90th Division took over the positions from the 82nd Airborne Division.
The 3rd Battalion 505th PIR near Granville was pinned down on June 9, and had to call in artillery.
-On June 9, L and I Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Reg. reached the creek, but it was too wide to cross.
I Company take refuge in a appel orchard, but are isolated from other units. But help was on it’s way, and with help from L Comp, the hangar is taken, but both companies were now pinned down. K Company of the 3rd Battalion took defensive positions on the right flank.
-June 10, when E Company moved out to reinforce the other companies, they are greeted with German shells. The losses were high, 50 to 60 men were lost, plus all the mortars and machineguns. At the end of the day, around 19.00 hours, Sherman tanks from Company A
-70 Tank Battalion surrounded the Germans in Magneville. The Germans have 8,8cm guns, but have to surrender to A Comp, 8th Reg. Some 100 Germans are made prisoner, and at 21.00 hours, the men from A Comp dig themselves in. Meanwhile, 8th Reg. reinforce the rightside of Ecausseville to protect the 2nd and 3rd Battalion.
www.strijdbewijs.nl/cherbourg/out4.htm
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_%C3%A0_dirigeables_d%27%C3%8...
www.aerobase.fr/historique/dirigeables/Sea-Scout.html
www.dday-overlord.com/bataille-normandie/communes/manche/...
Returning to normalcy, much of the equipment of the Casscocian forces was declared surplus. Vehicles like the 2-ton Light Artillery Tractor were bought for cheap and converted for farm use.
The last product of my earlier tablescrap idea. Originally the only way to go forth with my idea was with a few white technic liftarms I had, but I wasn't interested in making a "winter" colored design. However, hoping to exploit my idea as much as possible, I recently felt inspired by tanks and other vehicles that were sold as surplus after WWII and converted to perform all kinds of jobs, especially farm use. Here are some examples:
A T2 Hangar moved and erected on the northern side of the airfield Post War, presumably for farming use, history unknown. During the inter-war period, and after resumption of hostilities in 1939, the Directorate of Works and Buildings developed a number of different Hangar types including the Type T, developed in collaboration with the Teeside Bridge and Engineering Company. 906 examples of this type of hangar were built on RAF airfields/stations in Britain and abroad from 1940.
A Type T2 hangar is a type of temporary, steel-framed aircraft hangar that became the standard for the RAF during World War II. Developed in response to the obsolescence of earlier designs like the Bellman Shed, the T2 hangar featured a welded and bolted steel framework clad in galvanized corrugated iron. Over 900 T2 hangars were built to house and maintain aircraft during the war.
The T2 hangar was designed by architect A.E. Cotton and built by Teesside Bridge & Engineering Ltd. It utilized a modular design of steel lattice wall and roof units, clad with corrugated iron. The doors were typically six-leaf, opening the full width of the hangar. The Type T2 hangar served as a standard, temporary solution for housing and maintaining aircraft at RAF stations during World War II.
RAF Hethel airfield was built in 1942 for use by the U.S.A.A.F as A.A.F Station 114 and was initially used as a staging airfield for units of the Twelfth Air Force deploying to North Africa, at this time, RAF Hethel was also used as a training airfield for other B-24 Liberator Groups in the Second Air Division of the Eighth Air Force. After the base was fully complete it was assigned to the 389th Bombardment Group (Heavy) and being part of the Second Air Division it was equipped with B-24 Liberator's. After arriving in England, a detachment was sent to Libya, where it began operations on 9th July 1943. The detachment flew missions to Crete, Sicily, Italy, Austria, and Rumania.
The group received a DUC for the detachment’s participation in the famed low-level attack against oil refineries at Ploesti on 1st Aug 1943. For his action during the same operation, 2d Lt Lloyd H Hughes was awarded the Medal of Honor - refusing to turn back although gasoline was streaming from his flak-damaged plane, Lt Hughes flew at low altitude over the blazing target area and bombed the objective; the plane crashed before Hughes could make the forced landing that he attempted after the bomb run.
From October 1943 the 389th Bomb Group flew operations into occupied Europe and Germany attacking strategic targets such as the shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Munster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites at Pas de Calais. The group also took part in “Big Week” between the 20th and 25th February 1944 which saw the Eighth Air Force launch a series of raids against German aircraft production sites, and also flew tactical missions in support of the D-Day landings and the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and January 1945. Having lost 107 aircraft during its campaign, the 389th flew its last combat mission on 25th April 1945, returning to the U.S.A on 30th May.
Like many of the Eighth Air Force stations in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, RAF Hethel was handed over for use by the RAF where it was used by Polish Squadrons equipped with the Mustang. In mid-1947, RAF Hethel became a Personnel Transit Centre but was transferred to RAF Technical Training Command. However, as the RAF was scaled down, the station was finally closed in 1948 and was finally sold by the Air Ministry in 1964.
Today the site is used by Lotus Cars who built a factory on the site in 1966 where some of the former runways and taxiways were converted for use as a test track. A small museum dedicated to the former airfield has been created nearby. This museum is a commemoration of the contribution made by the 389th Heavy Bombardment Group and is housed in the original Chapel/Gymnasium building - the only major building from the camp area of Hethel to remain. The building features an original mural of Christ on the cross in the chapel and of a map of Europe in the Chaplin’s quarters next door. The exhibits include memorabilia, uniforms, decorations, combat records and photographs. There are two recently reconstructed Nissen Huts which have extended the display space and added facilities for visitors, one of these also includes artefacts from the nearby 466th Bomb Group at RAF Attlebridge.
Information sourced from - guide.8theast.org/389th-bomb-group-memorial-exhibition-he...
{ Ce hangar de 1917 a aujourd'hui 100 ans, c'est le plus gros en Europe et le plus gros en béton du monde, occupé par les français, allemand et américain, il laisse encore des traces d'un combat sanglant à l’intérieur où les allemands retranchés se protéger derrières de vulgaire poutre }
[FR]
Immense comme une cathédrale de fer et de béton, avec 150 m de long, 40 m de large, 30 m de haut, le Hangar à dirigeables d’Ecausseville se dresse à la porte du Cotentin. Il est l’unique survivant des douze centres aéronautiques construits pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale par la Marine Nationale pour abriter des dirigeables chargés de combattre les sous-marins ennemis.
En 1917, l'Allemagne se lance dans une guerre sous-marine à outrance. Le Hangar abrite alors les dirigeables chasseurs de sous-marins.
En 1967, d'autres ballons expérimentaux y seront étudiés.
Il a servit comme entrepôt par les allemands en 40 qui faisaient souvent le voyage jusqu'à cherbourg leur base de replis
Utilisés comme base arrière pour les avions reliant Paris à Cherbourg, les hangars sont désaffectés en 1927, celui en bois est démonté en 1932. La Marine décide de supprimer les dirigeables en 1936, moins efficaces et plus onéreux que l'aviation. L'autre est transféré en 1939, au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, à la Direction d'artillerie navale de Cherbourg.
Pendant l’Occupation, les Allemands s’installent en juin 1940 sur la commune d’Ecausseville, Ils y stockent les canons de 155 mm appartenant à deux batteries et placent des positions pour mitrailleuse ainsi qu’une batterie de canons de 88 mm pour la défense du site.
A compter du 8 juin 1944, les Américains appartenant au 8th Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division) appuyés par les chars de l’escadron C du 70th Tank Battalion débutent le siège du site et du village d’Ecausseville. Ils sont opposés aux soldats allemands du Grenadier-Regiment 922, 243. Infanterie-Division et du Sturm-Bataillon AOK 7, 709. Infanterie-Division
Utilisant un feu roulant (Le feu roulant de l'artillerie est une technique de combat inventée en juillet 1918, qui applique la tactique du feu roulant sur l'armée allemande partout où elle recule, la désorganisant dans sa retraite.)
Les americains progresse à travers les haies et terrain vague jusqu'au hangar ou s'étaient planqué les allemands, s'en suis une bataille sanglante à l'interieur du hangar.
Ensuite les prisonniers capturés seront stocké ici.
Après la bataille, le hangar servira de centre d’entretien
des véhicules de l’US Army ainsi que de dépôt de matériel.
Les hommes du 105th bataillon de la 860th Ordonance Compagny
aidés par les prisonniers de guerre allemands occuperont
les lieux jusqu’à la fin de la guerre.
Entre 1967 et 1969, une partie du Hangar est réservée à la Direction des Applications Militaires du Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, pour la mise au point des ballons destinés aux essais des premières bombes H françaises à Mururoa.
Il s’agit de régler un système d’accrochage complexe des trois câbles devant assurer le maintien du ballon dans une position fixe ainsi que des câbles électriques assurant l’alimentation de l’amorce et de ceux assurant le transfert des signaux des nombreux appareils de mesure disposés sur le ballon et sur la bombe.
On peut remarquer des casemates de nid de mitrailleuse à l'entrée qui n'ont rien à voir avec celles des boches de 44.
[EN]
-The hangar at Ecausseville is one of the original two, who once stood here. The base was constructed in 1916 by the French navy during the First World war, so airships could from here patrol the waters against German U-Boats.The first hangar is long ago demolished, but the second, which was completed in 1919, still stands
-During the Second World War, the hangar was used by the Germans, to store material for building the Atlantic Wall in this region. After the landing by the Allies on June 6th, this became a goal for the 4th Division as a starting point towards Montebourg. When the 8th Regiment took hold of the hangar, this became the jump of point for Montebourg.
-The 3rd Battalion, 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne Div. moved right of the Carentan-Valognes railway track, heading forMagneville.
1st and 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Division had as jump of point right and left from around Fresville.
-German troops overhere consistedin this area, were elements of the 709- en de 243 infantery divisions, and units of the Sturm Bataljon AOK 7. After three attacks, the Germans finally retreated from Neuville-au-Plain.
To accomplish this the para’s of the 82nd were reinforced by GI’s from the 8th Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.
-At 06.30 hours, on June 9, the attack was continued after a 45 minute shelling by artillery. The 3rd and 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, 4th ID. moved between Fresville and Grainville towards Magneville.
The 1st Battalion, 8th Reg were pinned down and were stalled for a long time. The other two battalions crossed a meadow, but run into a creek, and could not move further.
The 456th Field Artillery Battalion was in position on June 11, and on 10.15 hours, a barrage of 15 minutes was shot into the German positions.
-On June 13, 359th Regiment, 90th Division took over the positions from the 82nd Airborne Division.
The 3rd Battalion 505th PIR near Granville was pinned down on June 9, and had to call in artillery.
-On June 9, L and I Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Reg. reached the creek, but it was too wide to cross.
I Company take refuge in a appel orchard, but are isolated from other units. But help was on it’s way, and with help from L Comp, the hangar is taken, but both companies were now pinned down. K Company of the 3rd Battalion took defensive positions on the right flank.
-June 10, when E Company moved out to reinforce the other companies, they are greeted with German shells. The losses were high, 50 to 60 men were lost, plus all the mortars and machineguns. At the end of the day, around 19.00 hours, Sherman tanks from Company A
-70 Tank Battalion surrounded the Germans in Magneville. The Germans have 8,8cm guns, but have to surrender to A Comp, 8th Reg. Some 100 Germans are made prisoner, and at 21.00 hours, the men from A Comp dig themselves in. Meanwhile, 8th Reg. reinforce the rightside of Ecausseville to protect the 2nd and 3rd Battalion.
www.strijdbewijs.nl/cherbourg/out4.htm
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_%C3%A0_dirigeables_d%27%C3%8...
www.aerobase.fr/historique/dirigeables/Sea-Scout.html
www.dday-overlord.com/bataille-normandie/communes/manche/...
"Elle a été inaugurée en 1964 à l’occasion du 20ème anniversaire du retour du Général sur le territoire métropolitain et comporte l’inscription suivante :
« Ici,
Le 6 juin 1944, les forces alliées libèrent l’Europe,
Le 14 juin 1944, Charles de Gaulle le libérateur retrouve la terre de France. »
Elle lie donc deux événements qui se déroulent au même endroit et concomitants : le Débarquement des forces alliées le 6 juin et celui du Chef du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française, le 14 juin sur le secteur de Juno Beach.
Même si le Général n’avait pas forcément envie de célébrer à l’excès le 6 juin 1944 dont il a été soigneusement tenu à l’écart par les chefs alliés, force est de constater que cet événement est indissociable de son propre débarquement du 14 juin et donc, de sa commémoration. D’ailleurs, lors de sa venue à Courseulles-sur-Mer le 16 juin 1946 à l’occasion des « fêtes de la Libération », les deux événements sont étroitement associés.
Rénovée depuis son installation, la stèle a fait l’objet d’une « seconde » inauguration placée sous la présidence d’Elisabeth de Miribel, laquelle était entrée dans l’Histoire pour avoir dactylographié le texte du célèbre Appel du Général de Gaulle à refuser la défaite et à poursuivre le combat contre l’ennemi, le 18 juin 1940. Ce texte est d’ailleurs reproduit au dos de la stèle qui mentionne également que la secrétaire particulière du Général a inauguré cet ajout le 8 mai 1993.
Chaque 9 novembre, la municipalité de Courseulles-sur-Mer organise fidèlement devant ce monument une cérémonie commémorative du décès du Général, à laquelle le comité Fidélité Gaulliste est pleinement associé. "
fidelite-gaulliste.fr/la-stele-commemorative-de-courseull...
Dassault Mirage F1 BQ
Envergure 8,44 mLongueur 15,55 m
Hauteur 4,49 m
Surface alaire25 m2
Masse à vide équipé 8 000 kg
Masse max. 16 200 kg
Plafond 16 500 m
Capacité en carburan 3 850 l
Vitesse max.Mach 2,2
Armement interne 2 canons DEFA de 30 mm avec 270 obus
Réacteur1 SNECMA SNECMA Atar 9K50 de 4 700 Kgp de poussée à sec et 7 200 Kg avec PC
"Dassault a confié au CAEA le Mirage F1 BQ n°16 '4656', il est arrivé le 11 décembre 2008.
Cet avion fait partie d'un lot qui n'a jamais été livré à l'Irak pour cause d'embargo, stocké à l'AIA de Clermont-Ferrand en 1998, il est repris par Dassault pour pièces avant d'être mis à disposition du CAEA.
Il compte seulement 8h15 de vol."
caea.info/fr/la-collection/le-materiel/37-collection/avio...