Post your pics of abandoned military places

[Tarmo]

Entrance to Hitler bunker in Wolfsschanze. During 4 years in WWII he spent there about 800 days. Ceiling is about 8 meters of concrete. Wow!

[K_N_Fodder]

Holy mackeral... designing bunkers for nukes even before there were nukes!

[worldrider]

North of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Abandonded tank and reminder of the nasty civil war between the Marxist Derg, who overthrew Halie Selassie in 1974,
and the Ethiopian People's Revolution Front who finally overthrew the Derg in 1990 after that 17 year civil war in Ethiopia.

[Shaggie]

Originally Posted by Tarmo

Entrance to Hitler bunker in Wolfsschanze. During 4 years in WWII he spent there about 800 days. Ceiling is about 8 meters of concrete. Wow!

whoa!

any more pics?

[peter13]

Originally Posted by worldrider

North of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Is that one of them there new hover tanks....

[NomadRip]

Ft. Jefferson, Dry Tortugas NP. Largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere. No bike pics, as it's 68 miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, so only boats and floatplanes can get there. Became obsolete before it was even finished. I have a bunch of pictures, but here's one for now of the main entrance over the moat.

[SR-Rider]

Fort Verle near "Kaiserjägerweg" Trentino



Monte Grappa, Italy, Venetien

[TomN]

Cool lets see more

Originally Posted by NomadRip

Ft. Jefferson, Dry Tortugas NP. Largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere. No bike pics, as it's 68 miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, so only boats and floatplanes can get there. Became obsolete before it was even finished. I have a bunch of pictures, but here's one for now of the main entrance over the moat.

[worldrider]

Originally Posted by peter13

Is that one of them there new hover tanks....

yeah kinda like the Harrier of overland ops... ;-)

[Rasbutan]

Living in SE WI blows. No bases, and no dirt roads.

Keep this thread up!!!!!!!!

[NomadRip]

Here's from the other side of the entrance on the moat wall. (Not sure why there's a moat when it's already surrounded by the ocean...preservation, probably). Those birds are called "Magnificent Frigatebirds" for anyone who is into birds. They were just sitting there stationary on the breeze the whole time we were there.



It is in various states of disrepair. Since naming it as a National Park fairly recently, they've been working to fix it, somewhat.



Getting materials out here was such a PITA. It is called the "Dry" Tortugas because there is no fresh water on any of these very small islands. The white on these walls is salt. They used saltwater to mix the mortar because it would be too costly to barge in fresh water to do so.



My avatar picture is me standing in one of the windows on one of the corners on the 2nd floor. This is the view.



Here is from my friend's perspective from the seawall.



This was the interior of the fort, from the top of the wall. That large structure is the ammo storage building thing (I forgot the term he used). As you can see, there were a lot of guns, as they had them lined up in most of those openings on multiple levels.



The lighthouse and one of the leftover guns on top of the wall. I don't recall the stats on the gun, but for perspective, I am 5'9" tall.



Here's a view looking the opposite direction as before. This is south, toward Cuba. Those boats in the foreground landed the day before this was taken, from Cuba. They have old barely-running Chevy V8's in them, you can see light through both sides of both of them in places. They carried something like 18 people on them.

The rule is, if Cubans are intercepted at sea, they get boarded, taken into custody, and their craft is sunk. They get taken care of, but sent back to Cuba. If they make it to US soil, they get immunity, are taken to Key West to be processed and released. Key west is closer to Cuba. Key West has a Coast Guard base and a Navy base on the island. The Dry Tortugas has 3 Park Rangers. They come here. (The park rangers are very heavily armed).




There are a bunch more pictures in my photobucket here. I'll re-arrange them when I get our SmugMug put together.

[molten]

Very Cool!

[Davy F]

A picture of the Longues-sur-Mer gun emplacements on the Normandy coastline. This is an area I like to keep coming back to as there's so much to see and we never seem to have enough time to fit all the points of interest in.

[Davy F]

Command/range bunker.

[mike1952]

Originally Posted by NomadRip

Here's from the other side of the entrance on the moat wall. (Not sure why there's a moat when it's already surrounded by the ocean...preservation, probably). Those birds are called "Magnificent Frigatebirds" for anyone who is into birds. They were just sitting there stationary on the breeze the whole time we were there.



It is in various states of disrepair. Since naming it as a National Park fairly recently, they've been working to fix it, somewhat.



Getting materials out here was such a PITA. It is called the "Dry" Tortugas because there is no fresh water on any of these very small islands. The white on these walls is salt. They used saltwater to mix the mortar because it would be too costly to barge in fresh water to do so.



My avatar picture is me standing in one of the windows on one of the corners on the 2nd floor. This is the view.



Here is from my friend's perspective from the seawall.



This was the interior of the fort, from the top of the wall. That large structure is the ammo storage building thing (I forgot the term he used). As you can see, there were a lot of guns, as they had them lined up in most of those openings on multiple levels.



The lighthouse and one of the leftover guns on top of the wall. I don't recall the stats on the gun, but for perspective, I am 5'9" tall.



Here's a view looking the opposite direction as before. This is south, toward Cuba. Those boats in the foreground landed the day before this was taken, from Cuba. They have old barely-running Chevy V8's in them, you can see light through both sides of both of them in places. They carried something like 18 people on them.

The rule is, if Cubans are intercepted at sea, they get boarded, taken into custody, and their craft is sunk. They get taken care of, but sent back to Cuba. If they make it to US soil, they get immunity, are taken to Key West to be processed and released. Key west is closer to Cuba. Key West has a Coast Guard base and a Navy base on the island. The Dry Tortugas has 3 Park Rangers. They come here. (The park rangers are very heavily armed).




There are a bunch more pictures in my photobucket here. I'll re-arrange them when I get our SmugMug put together.

I did see it mentioned but this is where Dr Mudd was imprisoned. For those not into history, he was the Dr who trreated Booth after he shot Lincoln.
He was eventually pardoned after helping save lives of the other prisoners at the fort from some dreaded tropical disease.
eh