Matt308
Glock Perfection
Really freebird, what did that look like... not your foot who gives a rip... but rather the spike.
Bunkers Found
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Really freebird, what did that look like... not your foot who gives a rip... but rather the spike.
Freebird
Master Sergeant
Really freebird, what did that look like... not your foot who gives a rip... but rather the spike.
Well I don't remember much, mostly a bawling kid getting his foot stiched up getting a tetanus shot!
Apparently it was buried in the sand/pebbles, I only steped down far enough to stick it in my foot perhaps 3/4 inch. Supposedly they put smaller spike belts on the best invasion beaches, to injure the soldiers wading up.
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Well I don't remember much, mostly a bawling kid getting his foot stiched up getting a tetanus shot!
Apparently it was buried in the sand/pebbles, I only steped down far enough to stick it in my foot perhaps 3/4 inch. Supposedly they put smaller spike belts on the best invasion beaches, to injure the soldiers wading up.
3/4in is far enough. OUCH! Do you have any pics of what these spikes would look like before being set? Sounds like friggin' caltrops!
seesul
Senior Master Sergeant
Also we have a lot of bunkers here along Austrian,German and Polish boarder. Build in 30´s on order of Czechoslovakian goverment. Our soldiers had to leave them without fighting after Munich´s dictat in Sept. 1938.
A lot of them are accessible today and some of them are even for sale...
WWII bunkers for sale - 26-07-2005 13:15 UTC - Radio Prague
evangilder
"Shooter"
Hmmm, depending on the price, we could create a ww2aircraft hangout in the Czech Republic. What would be more appropriate than one of the bunkers?
seesul
Senior Master Sergeant
Can ask for the price. Don´t think it will be too much, sure according the condition of the bunker...
But can tell ya the price of the beer on tap here- 1.25 dollar a beer. Was 0,75 dollar 2 years ago but with that dollar going down...anyway, the price for me in Czech crowns is still the same
These are virtually in my back yard. There are about 30 of these very near to my house:
I have been trying to get over to the bunkers in the Czech for the last few months. I never make it!
seesul
Senior Master Sergeant
The same for me. Wanted to visit Berchtesgaden this year but it looks bad. But next year I gotta make it. If you wanna see any bunker here, next spring would be good for me. If also for you, we will make it.
Ramirezzz
Senior Airman
Pictures from some abandonded Cold War bunkers along the Russ-Finnish border in Karelia (56K warning)
bunker 100 mm cannon ZIF-25
spb_stalker: КаземаÑ'Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð¿ÑƒÑˆÐºÐ° ЗИФ-25 (100мм)
more pictures of this fortifications line:
spb_stalker: КÐУÐ
bunker 100 mm cannon ZIF-25
spb_stalker: КаземаÑ'Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð¿ÑƒÑˆÐºÐ° ЗИФ-25 (100мм)
more pictures of this fortifications line:
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A few months ago, I was in the old commandpost of the Civil rescue organisation, an organisation dedicated to emergency aid during bombing. It was dismatled after the cold war ended. Half of the bunker is an old German command bunker, the rest are newer ('70ies) atomic bunkers. Pics can be found Here: Index
I will keep that in mind and see what we can do. I do not live very far from teh Czech border.
seesul
Senior Master Sergeant
Messy1
Master Sergeant
I heard about this on the radio from Paul Harvey. Stuff like this never happens in Iowa!
Freebird
Master Sergeant
Didn't make a detailed inspection at the time!
I don't remember, but the local doctor told my dad that they had found stuff on the beaches over the years, bits of rusty barbed wire etc.
I think the largest spikes were meant to impale boats, LCV's etc, and they set smaller spikes to catch men or inflatables coming ashore. I believe that they did not anticipate front-door LCV's, they probably expected small boats rubber rafts.
There were alot of bunkers/pillboxes above the beaches, so if they could snag incoming troops they had longer to fire on them before they got ashore.
Didn't make a detailed inspection at the time!
I don't remember, but the local doctor told my dad that they had found stuff on the beaches over the years, bits of rusty barbed wire etc.
I think the largest spikes were meant to impale boats, LCV's etc, and they set smaller spikes to catch men or inflatables coming ashore. I believe that they did not anticipate front-door LCV's, they probably expected small boats rubber rafts.
There were alot of bunkers/pillboxes above the beaches, so if they could snag incoming troops they had longer to fire on them before they got ashore.
That is the same in Normandy. Last time I went up there, I found lots of shrapnel, barbed wire and even large shell casings still buried in the sand.
Messy1
Master Sergeant
I will make it over to Normandy sometime in my life.
RabidAlien
1st Lieutenant
Ditto.
