La Pallice Submarine Base

The first U. The 3rd Flotilla took over the base on October 27 1941.

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La pallice submarine base. The first two pens were finished in October 1941. Remi JouanCC BY-SA 30. Construction of the U-boat bunker in La Pallice the primary port of La Rochelle started in April 1941.

A submarine pen U-Boot-Bunker in German is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. The term is generally applied to submarine bases constructed during World War II particularly in Germany and its occupied countries which were also known as U-boat pens after the phrase U-boat to refer to German submarines. 174 KB Submarine base larochelle-lapalicejpg 800 532.

Work lasts day and night. The U-boat bunker was 195 m wide 165 m long and 19m high. In april 1941 the german command decided to.

U-boat Base La Pallice. From september 1940 was la pallice the alternative base for the italian betasom submarines the main base of operations being bordeaux. Remi JouanCC BY-SA 30.

La Pallice was subject to the allied siege of La Rochelle in 194445 which ended with the capitulation of Germany. The base is located a few kilometers west of la rochelle inside the commercial port of la pallice. The 3rd flotilla took over the base on october 27 1941.

The German occupation forces used the eastern port basin of La Pallice for the submarine bunker. Army navy base boat bunker das boot fortified france french german historic la pallice la rochelle port protected reinforced concrete submarine war world war ii Similar stock images RM 2A57D2D SNSM coast guard boat at the German WW2 Kriegsmarine submarine base in the port of Saint-Nazaire Loire-Atlantique France. Submarine Naval Base La Rochelle - U-Boot-Bunker La Rochelleby Wolfgang Kampa.

La Rochelle U-boat base - History. Pepper de RéCC BY-SA 25. The construction of the 10 U-boat pens lasted two years but already from November 1941 the first U-boats began to arrive.

07052015 - Built to house the 3rd u-boat flotilla during the second world war La Pallice submarine base is the witness of the last siege of the city of La Rochelle. Meanwhile at the submarine base in occupied la. The U-boat pens in La Rochelle.

In its final form the main complex of the bunker was 19225 meters wide 159 meters deep and 19 meters high in a west-east direction. The base is located a few kilometers west of La Rochelle inside the commercial port of La Pallice. Home - France - next page.

It is also the home of La Rochelles fishing fleet which was moved from the. Read another story from us. The detailled story of the german U-boat bases of the second world war in France.

La Rochelle U-boat base. In April 1941 the German Command decided to build also a bunker in La Pallice. The large submarine base built at that time still stands largely is not in use.

The submarine pens in La Rochelle. It was built in 1891 and was 600 by 200 meters length by width. 1 La Pallice is equipped with oil unloading equipment and mainly handles tropical wood.

The locks in the La. The large submarine base built at that time still stands largely is not in use. The Keroman complex was targeted numerous times by the Allies.

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1 It was used as a backdrop for the film Das Boot 1981 2 and Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981. Under the Nazi Occupation of France La Pallice was used as a U-boat base Base sous-marine de La Rochelle from October 1941 when the 3rd U-boat Flotilla was moved there from its base in Kiel. The 3rd German U-boat flotilla had its headquarters in La Pallice and remained here until August 1944 when the.

The construction of La Rochelle U-boat base started in april 1941. Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B22966 Frankreich La Pallice U-Bootbunker im Baujpg 800 553. As at La Pallice and St Nazaire the lock was protected from air attack by a concrete roof though this was removed just after the war.

Beside the German facilities there was also an Italian submarine base which operated until the Italian surrender to the Allies in September 1943 after which the five remaining submarines were taken over by the Kriegsmarine. Read the history of each base get some phtos and discover the german submarines which participated in. Solarisation de la base sous-marine - La Pallice - 2018.

La Rochelle was the home base of the 3e U-Flotilla which officially moved in from Kiel in October 1941. Construction of the U-boat base at La Pallice. From September 1940 was La Pallice the alternative base for the Italian Betasom submarines the main base of operations being Bordeaux.

The night powerful projectors light the building site but they must be extinct with air the slightest warning plunging the workmen in the darkness what entraine the fall of some of them in concrete castings. This base consisted of three separate bunker pens two of which used a highly sophisticated method of hauling the submarines onto land.

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