The u boat base in saint nazaire is an enormous reinforced concrete structure.
Saint nazaire submarine base roof.
The submarine base of saint nazaire is a large fortified u boat pen built by the germans during the second world war in saint nazaire.
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The zone of the base was abandoned for a long time.
In 1994 the municipality of saint nazaire decided to re urbanise the base in a project name ville port lit.
It was constructed between january 1940 and december 1941 by the todt organisation.
The first one is 3 5 meters of concrete the second is 35 cm granite and concrete layers.
That 40 000 british polish and czech soldiers fled to safety in the uk.
It was from st nazaire on the 12th june.
The structure housed two flotillas of submarines and contained 14 cells each cell allowed two submarines to dock.
The third is a 1 7 meter layer of reinforced concrete and the fourth is a 1 4 meters deep fangrost layer of steel beams.
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On the roof is one completed and one uncompleted m19 maschinengranatwerfer automatic 5 cm mortar bunker.
It was made 8 meters thick featuring four layers.
They wanted it impenetrable to aircraft and given the shape it s still in.
In 2009 107 aspens were planted in the saint nazaire s explosion chambers of the base.
St nazaire under construction.
U 67 going into lorient bunker.
A forty foot circle hole in the roof of a u boat pen in brest which had received a direct hit during the allied bombardment.
Contents show history before the second world war saint nazaire was.
One important feature of the saint nazaire base is the construction of it s roof.
15 foot reinforced ferro concrete u boat pen roof penetrated by a 22 000 lb mc grand slam bomb.
Five days later however the british ship lancastria was sunk as it left the loire resulting in a total of 3000 refugees soldiers and civilians on board perishing.
The triptych le bois de trembles le jardin des orpins et des graminées le jardin des étiquettes takes advantage of three architectural features on the submarine base s roof.
