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War Museums in Calais - War Graves, Cemeteries & Memorials
War Museums in Calais - War Graves, Cemeteries & MemorialsThe main La France page is here. To get free weekly La France updates to your mailbox click here. War Museums in Calais - War Graves, Cemeteries & Memorials
With prices starting from as little as £25* each way for a car and up to nine people and day trip fares, don't miss out on a great break this spring. More details here. Bunker At Blockhaus The Calais area has witnessed its share of invasions over the centuries and the vestiges of the last conflict are everywhere in evidence. It was here that the Germans expected the arrival of allied troops and made their own preparations to strike at England. Foremost among the constructions designed to rain death and destruction upon the English was the Eperlecques bunker built to fire V2 rockets into the heart of London.
V3 Base At Mimoyecques Even more ambitious was the V3 base at Mimoyecques equipped with 25 giant canons which in full operation could fire a shell into London and the south east of England every six seconds. Neither Mimoyecques nor Eperlecques succeeded due to allied air attacks.
Historique De La Seconde Guerre Mondiale The origins of the second world war in Poland through to the use of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima are graphically depicted at the museum at Ambleteuse.
Atlantic Wall Museum At nearby Audinghen is the Atlantic Wall Museum located in a bunker which once housed a 380mm gun directed at allied shipping and Kent.
The War Museum - Musée de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale Calais has its own museum situated in a bunker formerly used by the war time German navy as a command post. A total of 20 rooms display a large number of interesting objects relating to the conflict in the area.
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