Picture-report : Atlantic Wall in Raversheide ( Belgian coast)

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Hello to all

Would like to share some pictures I took on monday during a visit to IMO one of the best remained pieces of the former atlantic-wall; " Domein Raversheide, the Atlantic-Wall " .

It is situated near the belgian small coasttown of ' Middelkerke' and when you take the route direction ' Oostende ' along the coast, you can't miss it. I'm convinced that most of our european members probably already visited this site, there are kilometers of well preserved trenches and blokhauser. It was originally built by the belgian army at the beginning of the 20th century. During WW1 and 2 it was re-constructed and expanded by German occupation forces and Kriegsmarine...

The collection consists of several original Flak pieces, trenches,etc...inside the numerous bunkers, there are very nice displays showing WW1 and 2 Kriegsmarine set-ups.

Some pictures are not very clear due to the fact they are behind glass and it is rather dark inside the blockhauser.

I let the pictures do the rest...

I hope you guys like it

Cheers

Jan

first bunker on my little tour

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Following pictures shows several German AA and Flak-guns that can be found on the site...they are preserved and maintained by professionals from the Royal Military Museum in Brussels...real artists!

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4...note the red bricks, used by belgian builders...the germans re-enforced the bunkers and trenches.

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...the daily life of the KM soldiers. I visited the site already some years ago, but they change the displays a little and added some new items...



note the named helmet

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9...again sorry for the bad quality

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....I bet that Michel would love to have a key of this glass door