Manshead bunker
A handful of men stationed here lit up the hillside during German bombing raids, in the hope that the pilots would mistake the lights for nearby Halifax and drop their deadly cargoes harmlessly onto the moor; a nerve-racking posting.
A now-infrequent blog by Yorkshire-based writer and photographer Tim Chapman.
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1 Comments:
Great post. I've just come back from a business meeting in La Rochelle, France and visited the U-boat berths.
Very weird as they featured in Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark but were also home to the Nazi navy which sank my Liverpool grandfather three times on the Atlantic Convoys.
Ian
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