Hitler's Atlantic Wall (1 Viewer)

[PanzerAce1944]

Thanks for sharing these additional photos. Really great looking stuff. I need to make it back over there one day ^&grin

 

[ucla1967]

Great photos Michael and John!^&cool^&cool Would love to get there myself one day.:smile2:

Thanks Louis. The tour we took was actually called "Hitler's Atlantic Wall and Flanders Fields Excursion." The second part was a visit to a small World War I British cemetery and a Nieupoort war memorial which was esentially a statute of the Belgian king overlooking a system of rivers and canals that were flooded by the Belgians. I mentioned in my post-tour comments that they should drop the Flanders Fields part and, instead, spend the time at the same open air museum which has a World War I section with trenches, bunkers, gun emplacements, etc. We didn't have time to see that.

 

[ucla1967]

Thanks for sharing these additional photos. Really great looking stuff. I need to make it back over there one day ^&grin

Your'e welcome. Here are the last photos which include various stored supplies. There were also outdoor displays of a German radar and various beach obstacles which I intended to photograph, but ran out of time and did not.

 

[ucla1967]

In case any of you would like to hire a local tour guide in this area, our group used Georges Depoorfer, who speaks perfect English, and is a retired Belgian naval officer with 30-years of service, including the Gulf War. Geotours is at www.geotours.be NB: When I mentioned to him that I was a toy soldier collector, he asked me to send him some photos of my Belgian sets made by Beau Geste and Bastion Models (which I did).