[PSUBS-MAILIST] U-Boat pens

[Joe Perkel]

Very interesting thanks.

I can name off a few films off hand featuring at least one of the pens, Das Boot, Indiana Jones, James Bond (?),.., but I didn't know if it was a set or real place as I never looked into it.

Are the white cliffs of Dover real,..or painted granite? .....  Just kidding!!! :)

I've just got to get to Europe, ...so much to see!

Joe




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 From: Gregory Cotton <gregc02 at gmail.com>
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Back in the mid 1980s I got a tour of the pens in La Rochelle. The French Navy was still using part of it. Impressive!!!




On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:09 AM, <JimToddPsub at aol.com> wrote:

 
>Joe,
> 
>The U-Boat pens are still there.  I just happened to see 
a documentary/tour on them about a month ago.  They're so massive they're 
almost impossible to remove. In France alone they contain 4.4 million cubic 
meters of concrete.  12-foot thick roofs and walls are pretty 
durable.  
> 
>Jim
> 
>In a message dated 9/23/2013 6:44:31 A.M. Central Daylight Time, josephperkel at yahoo.com writes:
>Alan,
>>
>>Out of curiosity, are the U-Boat sub pens in 
        France still in existence, or bombed out?
>>
>>I tend to think they 
        must be there, too many movies have featured at least one unless it was 
        a rigged set.
>>
>>Joe
>>
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>>Hi Jim,
>>No, England till 26th.
>>Went to the Cherbourg submarine museum in Normandy on the 
way.
>>Well worth the visit & have taken oodles of photos.
>>Alan
>>
>>Sent from my iPad
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>>On 22/09/2013, at 11:14 PM, Jim Todd <jimtoddpsub at aol.com>  wrote:
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