V1 Flying Bomb Launch Site nr. 528 – Nijverdal, the NetherlandsThis is a partial reconstruction of the former V1 launch site located here that launched V1 bombs towards … Posted March 29, 2025 (updated April 27, 2025) by Pascal
V1 Flying Bomb Ski Site – Launch and Storage Facility – Bois des Huit-Rues, Le Nieppe, FranceThe V1 launch location was set up in the Bois des Huit-Rues (Eng. Huit-Rues forest) just north of … Posted April 18, 2024 (updated August 11, 2025) by Patrick
Kraftwerk Nord West, V2 Rocket Bunker, Blockhaus d’ Éperlecques – Watten, FranceTrains with V2 rockets rolled into the bomb proof station next to the main bunker. The V2 rocket … Posted April 12, 2024 (updated March 12, 2025) by Patrick
Ouvrage Roche la Croix, Cable Car Mechanism – Meyronnes, Val-d’Oronaye, FranceThis cable car mechanism used for construction and logistics on the Alpine Line of the Maginot is on … Posted September 12, 2023 (updated March 8, 2025) by Pascal
Project Riese – Concrete Factory Osówka, Säuferhöhen – Owl Mountains, Walbrzych PolandThe Osowka Tunnels lie in a remote area therefore the Germans constructed a concrete factory on the site, … Posted July 28, 2023 (updated November 24, 2025) by Patrick
Project Riese – Wlodarz, Wolfsberg – Owl Mountains, Jugowice – PolandThis complex was part of Project Riese and was the second largest tunnel complex after Osowka. situated in … Posted August 9, 2022 (updated May 25, 2025) by Patrick
Former “Valentin” Power Transformer Building – Bremen, GermanyA Power Transformator Building of U-Boot Bunker Valentin. [...]Read More... Posted May 19, 2022 (updated February 23, 2025) by Pascal
Fliegerhorst Twente – Twente, NetherlandsWhen the Second World War broke out, the airfield was officially closed in 1940 and the hangar blown … Posted May 9, 2021 (updated May 6, 2025) by Patrick
Fliegerhorst Venlo – Yankee 55 – The NetherlandsNachtjagdgeschwader 1 or I./NJG 1 was stationed on this Luftwaffe base, not only Night fighters were stationed here. … Posted November 3, 2020 (updated February 21, 2025) by Patrick
Hexengrund – Torpedo test facility Gdynia – PolandGrey concrete buildings rise out the sea in the Gulf of Danzig, at first glance it looks like … Posted May 4, 2020 (updated May 6, 2025) by Patrick
National Filling Factory No.1 also known as BarnbowNational Filling Factory No.1, also known as Barnbow, was a First World War munitions factory located at Cross … Posted March 12, 2018 (updated February 21, 2025) by Patrick
Project Riese, Dynamit Nobel AG, Mölke – Ludwikowice Kłodzkie, PolandNear the towns of Ludwikowice Kłodzkie and Miłków in Poland lie the remains of the Dynamit Nobel A.G. … Posted October 15, 2016 (updated February 23, 2025) by Patrick
Project Riese – Rzeczka, Dorfbach – Owl Mountains, Walim PolandConstruction on Project Riese and Rzeczka started in 1943 and the Germans kept on digging until the Russian … Posted September 25, 2016 (updated February 16, 2025) by Patrick
Fontana Dam, North Carolina United States of AmericaBeginning just after WW1, there was an American congressional effort to encourage industrial development in places like Eastern … Posted March 18, 2016 (updated February 16, 2025) by Patrick
A Bailey Bridge along the Hoeksebaan – Hook of Holland, NetherlandsThis Bailey bridge lies in between the former positions of Widerstandsnest 31H and Widerstandsnest 32H along the former … Posted February 15, 2016 (updated January 7, 2026) by Pascal
Zis-5 plant in the UralAZ factory in Miass, Ural RussiaMiass in Russia has the UralAZ factory, a truck plant with the same name as the mountain ridge. … Posted December 8, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Patrick
Project Riese – Osówka, Säuferhöhen – Owl Mountains, Walbrzych PolandIn 1943 Minister of Armament and War Production Albert Speer, started, to talk about project Riese with the … Posted December 6, 2015 (updated January 6, 2026) by Patrick
Das Sauerstoffwerk II – Peenemünde, Mecklenburg – Vorpommern, GermanyIn November 1938 Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch gave the green light for further development of the Peenemünde rocket … Posted November 20, 2012 (updated January 5, 2026) by Pascal
