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Re: Terrain Challenge #16 (Score: 1)
by Buck_Compton on Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:56 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | this would be st nazaire harbour. to be exact iets formeren u boat harbour. this site was scene of a raid by uk commando's
sorry for the undetailed answer im now visiting from my cellphone
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Re: Terrain Challenge #16 (Score: 1)
by Buck_Compton on Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:43 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | this would be st nazaire harbour. to be exact iets formeren u boat harbour. this site was scene of a raid by uk commando's
sorry for the undetailed answer im now visiting from my cellphone
cheers buck |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #16 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:52 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Congratulations Buck!!
What a man!!! Do you know all places in the world??
U-boat base - Saint Nazaire, France
The first U-boat to reach St. Nazaire was U-46 under Oblt. Engelbert Endrass on 21 Sept, 1940. Later this base was the home for two U-boat Flotillas, the 7th which moved from Kiel to there January to June 1941 and the 6th which came from Danzig in February 1942. The base was in full use from October 1942 and reached its peak of activity in July, August and September 1943.
The construction work started in February 1941. The bunker, built on the western side of the basin at Saint-Nazaire, was 295m wide, 130m long and 18m high and contained 14 U-boat pens.
After only 4 months the first pens were ready and so Vizeadmiral Dönitz opened on the 30th June 1941 the bunker. U-203 under Kptlt. Rolf Mützelburg was the first boat to use one section of the newly completed shelter.
Later a sluice bunker was also built, which the U-boats used to reach the sea. (Today you can visit here the French submarine S-637 Espadon.)
A well known but not successful cattack on St. Nazaire took place in March 1942, when British special units attacked a list of targets. The bunker was not on the list as such, it (and the U-boats) was only to be attacked if the opportunity presented itself. Also 30 air-attacks of RAF and USAAF brought only 18 slightly hits on the bunker, but 62 lost aircraft. So until July 1944 Saint-Nazaire had been pounded with over 2000 tons of allied bombs, almost wiping out the town but not touching the U-boat bunker to speak of.
After the allied landings in Normany in June 1944, the 6th Flotilla was disbanded in August and the 7th Flotilla was moved to Norway. The base was declared a fortress and held out under the command of Generalleutnant Hans Junck until all German forces surrendered on May 8, 1945. Most of the remaining boats left in August and the last two in September, U-267 being the last but one on Sept 23. |
Re: Terrain Challenge #16 (Score: 1)
by HawkerHart on Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:45 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | St Nazaire also housed the only(i think) dock on the Atlantic coast big enough to take the Tirpitz. The commando raid in '42 consisted over 600 men in various motor launches plus the old destroyer HMS Cambeltown, with the aim of putting this dock out of use. The Cambeltown was rammed into the lock gates of the dock, whilst the commando teams were set down in and around the port to cause as much destruction as possible, then try to get away.
In the morning the net was well and truly down on the area and only 5 of the commandos got back to England, after a long walk to Spain.
Apparently somewhat ammused at the attempt to damage the dock many Germans were sightseeing on the Campbeltown the morning after the raid when it detonated, it's hull having been filled with explosives.
The dock was well and truly done over. It was not until two years after the war that it was repaired. Coincidence or not, the Tirpitz didn't leave its Norwegian fjord.
Around 160 men were killed. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded along with a massive host of other gallantry awards. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #16 (Solved!) (Score: 1)
by HawkerHart on Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:46 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | St Nazaire also housed the only(i think) dock on the Atlantic coast big enough to take the Tirpitz. The commando raid in '42 consisted over 600 men in various motor launches plus the old destroyer HMS Cambeltown, with the aim of putting this dock out of use. The Cambeltown was rammed into the lock gates of the dock, whilst the commando teams were set down in and around the port to cause as much destruction as possible, then try to get away.
In the morning the net was well and truly down on the area and only 5 of the commandos got back to England, after a long walk to Spain.
Apparently somewhat ammused at the attempt to damage the dock many Germans were sightseeing on the Campbeltown the morning after the raid when it detonated, it's hull having been filled with explosives.
The dock was well and truly done over. It was not until two years after the war that it was repaired. Coincidence or not, the Tirpitz didn't leave its Norwegian fjord.
Around 160 men were killed. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded along with a massive host of other gallantry awards. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #16 (Solved!) (Score: 1)
by Lestayo10 on Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:10 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid
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