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Construction Before the Second World War, Saint-Nazaire was one of the largest harbours of the Atlantic coast of France. During the Battle of France, the German Army arrived in Saint-Nazaire, in June 1940. The harbour was immediately used for submarine operations, with the German submarine U-46 arriving as soon as 29 September 1940.
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Site history. Built. 1941-43. Built by. Nazi Germany. Lorient Submarine Base was a submarine naval base located in Lorient, France. It was built in 1941 by the German Kriegsmarine, and was continued to be enlarged until 1943. After the German defeat it was used by the French Navy. It was decommissioned in 1995 and converted to civilian use.
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Construction of the Bordeaux bunker began in Autumn 1941 and was completed in Summer 1943. Overall dimensions were 245 meter long, 162 meter deep (front to rear) with a height of 19 meter. It had 11 pens, eight of which were dry docks.
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The Germans occupied the entire Belgian coast during World War I. Their U-boats were based farther inland in Bruges, just outside the range of British naval guns, and passed through canals that.
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In this video we are going to take a tour of the gigantic bunker that was built for the construction of German Submarines or U-Boats. We are going to explore.
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U-boat pens or submarine pens were a type of submarine bases that acted as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. From the mid-1930s the German Navy.
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The Elbe II bunker is located on the southern bank of the Elbe river at the Vulkanhafen. The mid-1930s saw the Naval Construction Office in Berlin give the problem serious thought. Various factions in the navy were convinced protection for the expanding U-boat arm was required.
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Submarine pen Surrendered German U-boats moored outside the Dora I bunker in Trondheim, Norway, May 1945 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.
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66 Want to Visit? 341 The submarine pens in La Rochelle. Pep.per de Ré/CC BY-SA 2.5 In April of 1941, laborers began building the concrete behemoths in La Rochelle's harbor. The massive pens were.
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Fast forward 5 years to the end of the Second World War, Germany lost the war and 3 of their newest U-Boats were left stranded in a massive bunker on the Elbe river; the U-2505, U-3004 and U-350. The British proceeded to blow up the bunker with 32 tonnes of bombs which caused the roof to partially collapse, trapping the u-boats in the bunker.
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Surrendered German U-boats moored outside the Dora 1 bunker in Trondheim, Norway, May 1945. For the construction of the pens in Hamburg (designated as the Elbe I and Elbe II) some 1,700 prisoners were used as forced labor.. World War II U-Boat pens at Lorient, France.Photo: David Broad CC BY 3.0 . U-boat pens at Ijmuiden . St.Nazaire under.
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On his release from prison he wrote a couple of books, autographed postcards and answered correspondence until he died on Christmas Eve, 1980. Filed 8/5/2013 | Updated. Lager Koralle was the forest bunker that controlled Germany's feared U-boat fleet during WW2. Central command for marauding submarines.
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The 3rd Flotilla took over the base on October 27, 1941. In April 1941 the German Command decided to build also a bunker in La Pallice. The first two pens were finished in October 1941. The U-boat bunker was 195 m wide, 165 m long and 19m high. The first U-boat in the bunker was U-82 on November 19, 1941.
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(Bundesarchiv) Dönitz believed—more so than Adolf Hitler or Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, the head of the German navy—that U-boats were key to winning the naval war against Britain. Cut off its supply line to North America, reckoned Dönitz, and Britain would be starved into surrender.
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Construction of a U-Boat bunker in Bergen started in 1941. The bunker had 3 dry boat pens, 3 wet ones, and one that was used for storage. It was the Kriegsmarines' 11th U-Boat Flotilla, transferred from Germany, who made its new headquarters in Bergen.