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Nazis' secret base found (Omaha Beach battery contains 40 buildings "untouched" since D-Day)
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | January 24, 2006 | TOM NEWTON DUNN

Posted on 01/24/2006 1:34:29 AM PST by Stoat

Nazis' secret base found
Revealed ... the Nazis’ untouched secret bunker
Revealed ... the Nazis’ untouched secret bunker
 
 

By TOM NEWTON DUNN


Defence Editor
 

A WARTIME bunker used by Nazis to bombard Allied troops during the D-Day landings has been unearthed untouched — after 60 years.

British treasure hunter Gary Sterne found the base exactly as it was when German troops fled after the Normandy invasion in June 1944.

Gary, 41, said: “It’s truly incredible. Apart from damage to the radio room, the whole place seemed to escape bombing unscathed.”


 

Treasure hunter ... Gary with RAF medals
Treasure hunter ... Gary with RAF medals
 


The bunker sprawls over 20 acres and is thought to be the hidden German battery that decimated US soldiers at Omaha Beach, seven miles away.

The encampment contains 40 buildings — including a field hospital.

Some of the offices contain army papers — as well as radio equipment.


Amateur historian Gary found it in dense undergrowth after buying a German army map at a French car boot sale.

The dad of two, from Manchester, kept it secret for three years so he could buy the land near the village of Grandcamp-Maisy.

He now plans to open it as a tourist attraction this year.



TOPICS: Germany; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: battery; bunker; dday; garysterne; history; milhist; nazi; nazis; omahabeach; secretnazibase; ww2
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To: namsman

Read post #7.


61 posted on 01/24/2006 4:31:29 AM PST by SW6906 (5 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, guns and ammunition.)
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To: MEG33; All

Can anyone post a map? I'm trying to visualize the range of the battery to the beachhead..


62 posted on 01/24/2006 4:32:16 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: FreedomPoster

Liberation of France . . . I've always felt that we should have made Germany's surrender conditional . . . that they continue to occupy France.


63 posted on 01/24/2006 4:37:38 AM PST by sockhead (socialisim . . . where everyone is equal . . . equally bad off)
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To: ken5050

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/dday.html

Good luck!


64 posted on 01/24/2006 4:48:31 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: ken5050

65 posted on 01/24/2006 4:50:23 AM PST by maggief (Hillary!/Belafonte '08)
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To: Stoat

You are most welcome. Thank you for the thread, fascinating discovery.


66 posted on 01/24/2006 4:52:24 AM PST by maggief (Hillary!/Belafonte '08)
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To: naturalman1975
So a 20 acre military facility can go, apparently undetected, for 60 years in peacetime France... yet, some people are absolutely certain that there's nothing left to find in rather more trying conditions in Iraq...

Great point well made. Game, set and match to you!!
67 posted on 01/24/2006 4:53:14 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: maggief

You're a national treasure....thanks..


68 posted on 01/24/2006 4:55:43 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Stoat
I am concerned that this will be viewed as a profound embarrassment for the French (it was right under their noses for 60 - odd years and they apparently had no idea it was there) and that they will use some clause of French law pertaining to National Historic Sites to wrest it from him, despite his legal ownership.

Interesting to see what side their embarassment falls on. . .

. . .but, should push comes to shove. . .perhaps, Mr. Stern can claim some 'muslim' heritage so as to be protected by France's own political correctness ;:^)

69 posted on 01/24/2006 4:59:39 AM PST by cricket
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To: ken5050

You're welcome, ken. :)


70 posted on 01/24/2006 5:01:05 AM PST by maggief (Hillary!/Belafonte '08)
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To: zot; Hurtgen

Ping


71 posted on 01/24/2006 5:02:07 AM PST by GreyFriar ((3rd Armored Division -- Spearhead))
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To: Light Speed

Wow, that's a Foxbat!

I wonder if it will start?


72 posted on 01/24/2006 5:02:30 AM PST by ovrtaxt ("I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."- Reagan)
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To: naturalman1975

"So a 20 acre military facility can go, apparently undetected, for 60 years in peacetime France... yet, some people are absolutely certain that there's nothing left to find in rather more trying conditions in Iraq..."

Deserves a bump.

And Eric Rudolph evaded one of the largest manhunts in US history in a 2-3 county area of Western NC for 5 years, yet some people can't understand why we can't catch Osama, Mullah Omar and Al Zaqari in areas 1000 times larger, hostile and with language barriers......


73 posted on 01/24/2006 5:04:11 AM PST by Rebelbase (I love global warming in the winter.)
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To: naturalman1975
So a 20 acre military facility can go, apparently undetected, for 60 years in peacetime France... yet, some people are absolutely certain that there's nothing left to find in rather more trying conditions in Iraq...

Check and mate.....

74 posted on 01/24/2006 5:15:00 AM PST by Thermalseeker
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To: Light Speed

50 years from now we may find Saddam's WMD.


75 posted on 01/24/2006 5:21:52 AM PST by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: Stoat

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76 posted on 01/24/2006 5:23:26 AM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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To: RipSawyer
although I admit I ain't et no snails yet.

Don't bother. I sampled one once off a friend's plate, all I could taste was the garlic butter. The French will eat anything that walks, swims, flies, crawls, or slithers, the nastier the better it seems.

77 posted on 01/24/2006 5:43:21 AM PST by epow
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To: Stoat
Amateur historian Gary found it in dense undergrowth after buying a German army map at a French car boot sale.

I'd say his amateur status is in jeopardy.

78 posted on 01/24/2006 5:55:06 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: Cap Huff

Hey, that is very interesting. Thanks for the ping.


79 posted on 01/24/2006 6:08:36 AM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Stoat
Nazis' secret base found

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80 posted on 01/24/2006 6:10:55 AM PST by Always Right
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