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Military Museum Attractions In Saint-Jans-Cappel
1. La CoupoleSaint Omer La Coupole , also known as the Coupole d'Helfaut-Wizernes and originally codenamed Bauvorhaben 21 or Schotterwerk Nordwest , is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres from Saint-Omer, and some 14.4 kilometers south-southeast from the less developed Blockhaus d'Eperlecques V-2 launch installation in the same area. It was built by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944 to serve as a launch base for V-2 rockets directed against London and southern England, and is the earliest known precursor to modern underground missile silos still in existence. Constructed in the side of a disused chalk quarry, the most prominent feature of the complex is an immense concrete dome, to which its modern name refers. It was built above ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Saint-Jans-Cappel Videos
Flandr'actu#149 - Grand Format : A Morbecque, la mémoire défrichée
[MÉMOIRE et ENVIRONNEMENT] Connaissez-vous le Bois des 8 rues à Morbecque, près d'Hazebrouck ? Une vaste opération de débroussaillage menée par la CCFI et l'ONF a permis de remettre en valeur l'ancien site de lancement de V1 construit par les occupants allemands en 1943.