Gundamhead
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I picked up a 2 disc DVD set a few months ago at a tag sale titled "Restricted Films of WWII". I just got around to watching it and it's full of the short films they would show at the begining of movies or in certain documentary film types. They're all very real and in grainy B/W. I always watch things like this in hope to spot some neat relatively unkown plane or scheme, ground equipment, or interesting detail.
I hit pay dirt. About halfway through the first disc, it's been interesting, but not 'cool'. Dramatic music cues and the neew chapter title is "German Installations" As I'm half watching as I wait for glue to dry, I hear the narrator...
"An incomplete German Block House near Vatan, France. (About 240Km south of Paris) According to civilians, the nazis hoped to house electrical apparatus to send out beams that would stop aircraft in flight. The structure is 300' long, 200' wide, and some four stories high. Steel doors meant to operate on rollers are 8' thick and 24'-25' high. Allied aircraft pounded the block hous and it's environs with 1000lb bombs."
The film shows a massive block house on/in a hill. The allie troops climbing on it are tiny. Huge place. It's bombed out on one section and giant slabs of concrete with twisted rebarb wire sticking out all over. Then they show the door they mentioned. Wow. Thing is, there's no equipment in any of the shots. Just soldiers climbing on the giant wreck and pointing the giant door out.
That was the jist of the entire block hous blurb, then it was on to a German airfield disguised as a small village.
Now I find this interesting because of the super science bend. The narrator stated it as fact, and the vibe was that it was totally possible and believable the Nazis were going to 'house electrical apparatus' to 'beam' down enemy planes. It's just kinda cool is all. So, does anybody know about this block house? My reality check tells me it may have been set to become a V-1 or V-2 installation, but I could not find any information about it on the net. I also couldn't make out what it would be for. There didn't seem to be any gun ports, or launch rails or platforms. So, Nazi super science hushed by the Allies and buried in Area 51, or just some giant mundane Nazi terror complex? I feel I should be posting this in a loud overly dramatic voice... B)
I hit pay dirt. About halfway through the first disc, it's been interesting, but not 'cool'. Dramatic music cues and the neew chapter title is "German Installations" As I'm half watching as I wait for glue to dry, I hear the narrator...
"An incomplete German Block House near Vatan, France. (About 240Km south of Paris) According to civilians, the nazis hoped to house electrical apparatus to send out beams that would stop aircraft in flight. The structure is 300' long, 200' wide, and some four stories high. Steel doors meant to operate on rollers are 8' thick and 24'-25' high. Allied aircraft pounded the block hous and it's environs with 1000lb bombs."
The film shows a massive block house on/in a hill. The allie troops climbing on it are tiny. Huge place. It's bombed out on one section and giant slabs of concrete with twisted rebarb wire sticking out all over. Then they show the door they mentioned. Wow. Thing is, there's no equipment in any of the shots. Just soldiers climbing on the giant wreck and pointing the giant door out.
That was the jist of the entire block hous blurb, then it was on to a German airfield disguised as a small village.
Now I find this interesting because of the super science bend. The narrator stated it as fact, and the vibe was that it was totally possible and believable the Nazis were going to 'house electrical apparatus' to 'beam' down enemy planes. It's just kinda cool is all. So, does anybody know about this block house? My reality check tells me it may have been set to become a V-1 or V-2 installation, but I could not find any information about it on the net. I also couldn't make out what it would be for. There didn't seem to be any gun ports, or launch rails or platforms. So, Nazi super science hushed by the Allies and buried in Area 51, or just some giant mundane Nazi terror complex? I feel I should be posting this in a loud overly dramatic voice... B)