At Brias in the Nord pas de Calais, about 22km north of Arras is a huge former Luftwaffe bunker. This place used to be a small Luftwaffe airfield and later an advanced signal post to report intruders and bomber streams. It also gave information to Gemran day fighters and Nightfighters.

The Luftwaffe garrisson was partly based at tthe local Chateau see link and story:
http://www.ww2museums.com/article/1413

In 1994 one of my friends visited the place and found some nice relics. The place was abandonned in September 1944 and the Germans threw a grenade on the material they could not take. He however found a few relics that survived the blast and were still there 50 years later. Yesterday he gave those to me.

They are Luftwaffe leaflets for ground radio operators (Funkers) to report intruding airplanes (number, date, type etc...) and there are also a few navigation coordonate grids. These documents are rare as you really do not expect to find paper work in bunkers after 50 years.

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What a great find!

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Gordon
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I would think those would be priceless artifacts Skipper! To survive a fire then 50 years time! Wow, great find! That's quite a friend you have there!

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This is a pair of Dutch resistance crystal radios, built into a small metal can, and a matchbox. The image is from a postcard bought at a Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam. The matchbox is marked in Swedish, but Swedish matches were sold in Holland for many years..
Scott

good one Skipp, yes the spots are still around and still equipped so to speak up in the north of you - Norway for example and in Denmark. have you seen the site right by SES and company ?? ......... oh my gosh you must bookmark this

Cheers guys. I'm glad you like it. Now this is not all : my friend has also found some bigger items such as a burnt field telephone. I will get pictures of these and post them for you, but as usual allow me some time.

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very nice there skipper a great peace for the collection
cheers krieg

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for thow . will be ours someday.we shall have it all
... und mear.......

Wow!

You would have thought people had taken everything by then....

Great find! And great pics! Thanx!

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The entrance was clean, but when you go deeper in side the tunnels it gets dark and that's where you could find these. This was 14 years ago though.

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We can give you some time Skipper, but next time just throw a TV dinner in the microwave for the kids and take the pictures!!!!

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This is a pair of Dutch resistance crystal radios, built into a small metal can, and a matchbox. The image is from a postcard bought at a Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam. The matchbox is marked in Swedish, but Swedish matches were sold in Holland for many years..
Scott

No way Bigfun. No junk food. In fact it is not about taking pictures or time. It is about seeing my friend who is the owner of the other items. I will be away for a few days, but when I return it will be one of my priorities.

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Very nice, Skipper! Thanks for sharing them.

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David

"It is history that teaches us to hope"
Robert E. Lee

apologies for not posting the web-site I spoke of :

GYGES Publishing Company

please click the research shield on the left

the site is graphic intensive and should be gone through page by page

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