Hi,Stephen, I hope you've received your copy now...I got mine this morning, that's first class stuff!But to be very frank, and eventhough I'm living in € Zone, it took 3 weeks...
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Hi,Austroparts, To the best of my knowledge,"Cité de la Mer",in Cherbourg,is a private business and not too much interested in history.Also,and as French,I'm a bit ashamed of that,but a letter written in English may have upset some civil servants! More seriously, I do not know where you are located, but if you're close to an European capital, there is a Military/Naval Attac
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Hello, Patrick and Kurt, In French Navy, lost submarines are never raised, for they are considered as military graves...I think that is a sound policy, and let dead seamen to their last and final peace.
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Hi,Kurt, I'll have to check my library and my DVD, but I can remember that some importants drawings of Lorient U-Bunker have been sent to England after they were obtained through bribing , but at this stage, I do not know if the culprit was German or French.Keep in mind that U-Bunkers and Atlantic Wall were built by French firms under contracts of "Organisation Todt".For mechanica
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Jean-Noël Muller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi,Jason, > To the best of my knowledge, there were no > military operations carried out by French > Resistance against U-Boote Bunkers, for they were > highly secured by German occupying authorities.In > addition, when France was liberated, main bases > such as Lorient, La Rochelle, Sa
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Hi,Jason, To the best of my knowledge, there were no military operations carried out by French Resistance against U-Boote Bunkers, for they were highly secured by German occupying authorities.In addition, when France was liberated, main bases such as Lorient, La Rochelle, Saint-Nazaire were considered as Festungen (Fortresses),and capitulated only on 09.05.1945.
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