On this page we encourage members to share photographs of recent visits to fortifications, museums or other sites that may be of interest to other members. By sharing tips and information about various locations it will enable prospective travellers to make contact and enhance their own trip.

Please submit any wartime, post-war or recent photos to the webmaster for inclusion..

A recent addition of pictures from Member Graeme Delanoe of the French trip - Thank you Graeme.

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and S414

M.K.B. Wijk M 473a (Leitstand) and four 671 for 17cm

10.5cm K331 (f) - 3 of them on site!

There are a huge number of bunkers within this complex including three R633 - M19 bunkers

Member Neil Walker at the "Eagles Nest" Obersalzburg (Berchtesgaden).

MKB Stranden

MKB 5./511 Trondenes 40.6 cm SKC/34

April 2007

Aug 2006

Fort Talud -near Lorient

Resistance Museum - St Marcel

June 2006

June 2006

MKB 6./502 Vara  38 cm SKC/34

HKB 18./979 Landehovden

10.5 cm K 331 (f)

Oslo - MKB 1./501 Dröbak

May 2006

Alderney - The blown up Leitstand at Battery Annes 

Alderney - MP3 at Mannez Quarry

April 2006 -

                                                   
Descriptive plaque at the park entrance           Camp boiler and chimney                                  Memorial plaque
                     

            Runway excavator                                          Power station dynamo                             Kitchen storage tanks

The site of the Australian and British POW camp in Sandakan, Sabah. The 2,400 POWs were employed by the Japanese in building the nearby airstrip (now Sandakan Airport) between 1942 and 1945. Conditions were appalling, and got steadily worse as the war progressed. With the Allies closing in, a decision was taken in January, 1945 to transfer the prisoners to the village of Ranau, 250km to the west, near Mount Kinabalu. The emaciated prisoners were forced to walk through the jungle in what the Australians regard as the worst Japanese atrocity committed against their countrymen of World War Two. This was the infamous "Death March" (actually three separate marches, the last of which left the camp in May, 1945) ). Many perished on the way, and if they were too ill to move, were shot on the spot. By the end of the war no-one was left alive at either the Ranau or Sandakan camps - all having died of disease or malnutrition. However, six Australians managed to escape from one of the marches, and were able to testify at the war crimes tribunal. In May, 1945 the Sandakan camp was finally abandoned and, as a last act, was torched by the Japanese.

The site of the camp is close to the main road leading from the airport (on the way to the famous Orang-utan Sanctuary at Sepilok), and is well sign posted. Residential development has encroached on the perimeter, but most of the site survives, and is now protected, having been turned into a peaceful memorial park.

There is a small exhibition hall in the centre of the park, and a number of memorial stones have been erected at various points throughout. Although the wooden huts were all burnt, some of the foundations are still clearly visible. Remaining concrete structures include the water tanks and kitchen storage tanks. The dynamo for the power station survives, as does the camp boiler and chimney. An excavator used to construct the airport runway is also on display.
 

June 2005

SKL/45 Near Kristiansund, Norway. The same type of  gun was used at Noirmont Point in Jersey.

2005 -

MKB 5./511 Trondenes 40.6 cm SKC/34