Trip to Atlantikwall / Domain Raversijde Belgium

{uZa}Amok · Last edited by {uZa}Amok on Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:47 am; edited 1 time in total

Yesterday I visited one of the best preserved remnants of the over 3000 miles long Atlantikwall (Atlantic Wall): Domain Raversijde near Oostende on the North Sea coast of Belgium. Raversijde has more than sixty bunkers and trenches, looking exactly as over sixty years ago. Many dioramas and an impressive collection of genuine German WWII weapons, like MG 42's, MP 40's, Kar's, Lugers, 75 mm anti tanks guns, 20 mm FLAK and 40 mm FLAK.

More on this can be read here: http://users.pandora.be/alex.deseyne/ENG/AtlantikwallE.htm

I went with two former colleagues of mine: Harold and Erwin. We share an interest in WWII and regularly visit sites that played a role in that war. Last year we went to the Airborne Museum in Oosterhout near Arnhem to see where the battle for the bridge of Arnhem took place.

Here are some pics of yesterdays trip to Belgium:

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject:

Very nice amok
i got a small request.
If you ever go to the city of Doetinchem, could you go to the city park for me it is named after a Calgary Highlander and i have a few relatives that fought in the highlanders, the park is called Mark Tennantplantsoen – Een Canadese bevrijder, (Mark Tennant Park, A Canadian Liberator)

just somthing lol
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject:

Great pics Amok!
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject:

Very nice, Amok. Thanks for sharing. By the way, next time you go could you grab me a couple of those Walthers sitting on the table? I'll send you a check. Very Happy

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Very nice I may meet you there next time Smile

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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

Those are greatAmok!
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

Thank you Tasha! It was a great trip! You can almost feel what it must have been like back in the days.
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject:

Great pictures Amok - thanks for sharing them Smile

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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

I would just like to see the sign or memorial up.

here is the wiki for them, battle honors and stuff, at the bottom it has some stuff on the Park.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calgary_Highlanders
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:32 am Post subject:

Hey ummm, I kinda noticed that those flak cannons aren't behind any glass... I could really use one of those, preferably the bigger one... That way the next time some childish moron goes driving through my neighborhood with his stereo blasting that bass crap, I can really make his car rattle... Evil or Very Mad

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