reconron
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Ok here is part 2 of the fort Eben Emael[Belgium] photo recon. 
I took the guided tour inside this huge fort,you can take a guided tour in Dutch,French,German and English,
led by enthousiastic guides who know were they are talking about.Take good walking shoes to the fort,you need them for sure.The tour can take up to a few hours.[and that's just the inside]
1 of the 2 remaining DFS-230 gliders [replicas] the other one is in a museum in Berlin and also will get to Fort Eben Emael in the year 2014.
Notice how cramped the gliders inside is.
You get a film before the tour,so you know a bit of what happened.
One of the 4 heavy MG post on top of FEE used as anti-aircraft defence.
This is how the Germans transported there gliders towards their targets;
The one that wasn't succesfull;
The then secret weapon and key to the succes of the assault on FEE;the devastating hollow charge explosive,the big one is 50 Kilogram of weight!
The penetration holes of the hollow charges,doesn't look like much but the devastation inside the fort was unbelievable horrific!
Very long tunnels and stairways...
'French toilet',...put your feet aside of it and aim.
A look at some of the guns;
Just a bit of the devastation done by one single hollow charge;
Not much room in the gliders for the Fallschirmjäger [German paratroopers].
The officersmess;
The fort commanders room.
Ammo carriers;
Enlisted mens room.
Without words;
NCO's room.
The fort was like a town;you could find a barber,dentist,doctor,sickbay,laundryroom,prison and so on in it.
Scale models of some of the fortifications;
Just another look on the real stuff.
Map of the fort;
Prison;
Hollow charge explosives;
The places the gliders with paratroopers landed;
Some scale 1:1 'dio's';
Combat engineers later on re-enacted the assault on FEE for the german Wochenschau[weekly newsreel] for propaganda uses.
Canon and machinegun positions;
The exit...you can visit Fort Eben Emael also on the net.
That's it folks,hope you liked it.
Greetings,Ron.
I took the guided tour inside this huge fort,you can take a guided tour in Dutch,French,German and English,
led by enthousiastic guides who know were they are talking about.Take good walking shoes to the fort,you need them for sure.The tour can take up to a few hours.[and that's just the inside]
1 of the 2 remaining DFS-230 gliders [replicas] the other one is in a museum in Berlin and also will get to Fort Eben Emael in the year 2014.
Notice how cramped the gliders inside is.
You get a film before the tour,so you know a bit of what happened.
One of the 4 heavy MG post on top of FEE used as anti-aircraft defence.
This is how the Germans transported there gliders towards their targets;
The one that wasn't succesfull;
The then secret weapon and key to the succes of the assault on FEE;the devastating hollow charge explosive,the big one is 50 Kilogram of weight!
The penetration holes of the hollow charges,doesn't look like much but the devastation inside the fort was unbelievable horrific!
Very long tunnels and stairways...
'French toilet',...put your feet aside of it and aim.
A look at some of the guns;
Just a bit of the devastation done by one single hollow charge;
Not much room in the gliders for the Fallschirmjäger [German paratroopers].
The officersmess;
The fort commanders room.
Ammo carriers;
Enlisted mens room.
Without words;
NCO's room.
The fort was like a town;you could find a barber,dentist,doctor,sickbay,laundryroom,prison and so on in it.
Scale models of some of the fortifications;
Just another look on the real stuff.
Map of the fort;
Prison;
Hollow charge explosives;
The places the gliders with paratroopers landed;
Some scale 1:1 'dio's';
Combat engineers later on re-enacted the assault on FEE for the german Wochenschau[weekly newsreel] for propaganda uses.
Canon and machinegun positions;
The exit...you can visit Fort Eben Emael also on the net.
That's it folks,hope you liked it.
Greetings,Ron.
