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Here are some interesting pics of when I went to Austria in '08.

The mass of welded metal is a monument to war in general, again no mention of WW2. It is located in a tucked away corner of Linz, how many different items can you find? The largest cannon is the 75mm L70 the second and third cannons are a Flak 37mm and 20mm, I think.
http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab265/oblesk/CCF03172010_00002.jpg

The wing is the outer half of a B24 wing with Cyrillic (Russian?) graffiti. The drop tanks are... P47 or 51? anyone?
The tunnel entrance is #4 of 6 or 8 entrances of the lower manufacturing complex in Ebansee. This one of the places the "V" weapons were produced. The first tunnel is the museum, the second and third are blocked off and the rest, if you want to tramp through the bush, are open:D. I did not have a light and the people that I was with could care less about the place, I felt I was rushed!!!!. I walked about 300m into the tunnel before it got too dark to see. Being in the tunnel was very erie to say the lest! Defiantly one of my highlights of the trip.
http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab265/oblesk/CCF03172010_00000.jpg
I'll post some more pics down the road.
Enjoy
 
One of the highlights of my one-and-only trip to Europe was getting off that bloody Bundesbahn train (MUCH would have preferred Reichsbahn) at Koln..... and looking up.

There were all these 20mm and .5" holes in the metal covering and the girders holding up the roof over the train departure area, and they all were chalked and you could see where the welders had started work at last, 30 years after the holes were put there.

I had had a couple of terrible days in Germany by this time, blown engine on the Buzzard, mechanics who charged rich Canadians three times what they charged the locals, couple grand worth of camera equipment stolen, crap like this. And I had listened to one of those quaint traditional Sunday band concerts..... they were playing "Pruessens Gloria" and nobody can tell me that they didn't know what it meant.

I looked up at all these chalk-marked bulletholes and said quietly, "Thanks, Dad." Dad was RCAF, groundcrew, never got out of Canada because guys with Aircraft Instrument Maker and Aircraft Factory Inspector qualifications BOTH were too valuable to allow to go overseas. We had exactly TWO men with both of those: Dad was one. I was born in Edmonchuk while he was Chief Inspector/Plant Manager (Military) at Aircraft Repair, building hundreds of grounded P-39s back to 'zero hours' and sending them to Russia.... up the Alaska, across the Straits, the girls flew them right along the whole Trans-Siberian and then to the squadrons on the Eastern Front.

But those bulletholes made the trip for me. They were the REALITY that modern Germany still is trying to forget.
 
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