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Bordeaux submarine base

Bordeaux submarine base
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The Bordeaux U-Boat Base, with its seven dry docks and four wet docks, measures 245 x 162 meters and is 19 meters high. Construction of the bunker began in September 1941 and was completed by May 1943. From mid-1943, work began on reinforcing the ceilings, but this was not completed by August 28, 1944, the evacuation of the port.

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Basesousmarine.JPG

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