Japanese attempts to reinforce Rabaul's air defences through ring of Allied airfields & naval blockade have lost 200-300 irreplaceable Japanese planes & experienced pilots. American bombers now use the Japanese fortress for target practice, opposed only by few anti-aircraft guns. https://t.co/gShg8mEtW7
Capture of Admiralty Islands means that Japanese fortress of Rabaul, in eastern Papua New Guinea, is now surrounded by ring of Allied airbases & isolated by sea & land- turning a 100,000-strong Japanese garrison into prisoners without a shot. https://t.co/0DLRGQ3TfE
Allied forces capture strategic Admiralty Islands in South Pacific after 80 days of fighting, completely isolating major Japanese base at Rabaul. Audacious landings caught 4000-strong Admiralty garrison off-guard; just 75 Japanese taken prisoner. https://t.co/8WH6zp1Lvw
4 months of battle have left Monte Cassini monastery a ruined shell: wrecked by Allied bombs & artillery, Germans occupied rubble & have repelled 3 separate assaults. At last, Allied 5th Army have captured the heights, raising a Polish flat over the ruins. https://t.co/dRs1llCX3u
Since the beginning of May, Red Army have captured Sevastopol & Allied forces in Italy have launched a colossal assault on the fortified Gustav Line. Otherwise, fronts are static across Europe, as armies in Britain prepare for "D-Day" assault on France. https://t.co/Y2Xq3cCvVk
Allied assault has finally taken the Italian town of Cassino, driving German defenders back to fortified "Hitler line". https://t.co/7ievgdtZFG
American newspapers now openly speak of imminent "D-Day", planned Allied invasion of France, predicting a major breakthrough in the war this summer. New York Times tracks 30 days of bombing over occupied Europe in preparation for landing: https://t.co/lm4kbLxDij
Smashing against the German Gustav line of fortifications with overwhelming force, Allied forces in Italy are finally gaining ground at Monte Cassino. https://t.co/xMR39Tm4lJ
Allied air forces are carrying out heavy bombing raids on northern French coast, softening German “Atlantic Wall” defences from planned amphibious invasion. Bombers are particularly heavy over Calais, which Germans presume is intended initial landing point for “D-Day”. https://t.co/L2RcHGYH0R
Female Soviet partisans- guerrilla soldiers who fight behind German lines- celebrate Red Army reconquest of the Crimea: https://t.co/d4PUw6bGkv
German disaster in the Black Sea as Germans desperately evacuate from the Crimea: transport ships Teja & Totila, evacuating 10,000 Axis troops from Sevastopol, sunk by Soviets. https://t.co/LhcBI6AYgN
"Jane's OK- she's not at Anzio": Allied troops on Anzio front, Italy, are instructed to cover up to avoid mosquito bites & possible malaria. A British soldier appreciates the warning sign: https://t.co/2U5dYnl9HA
German General Erwin Jaenecke boasted: "At Sevastopol stands the 17th Army, & there the Soviets will bleed to death." Hitler refused permission to evacuate from Crimea; now 96,700 Axis troops killed, 36,000 captured by victorious Red Army. https://t.co/i5SH7CZni5
Red Army have re-conquered Sevastopol, after 2 years of German occupation. Soviet flag once more flies over city: https://t.co/dMdBtBEyFi
Red Army artillery have begun a massive bombardment of Sevastopol, last German stronghold in the Crimea. Soviets plan a massive assault to take the city, which Hitler has ordered defended to the death. https://t.co/zoVdlwe1ZY
"Glory to the liberators of Ukraine! Death to the Nazi invaders!" As Red Army troops sweep up to the Romanian border, Soviet propaganda celebrates Germans being forced from southern USSR: https://t.co/eWj0FB28Gb
Bombing raids smash rail hubs in the Balkans: as Red Army advances into northern Romania, Allied bombing raids are targeting Axis logistics, with mass raids of Liberator & Flying Fortress bombers trying to cut off German re-supply. https://t.co/WVxaXC6UVu
Gandhi has been freed due to ill-health, with British afraid he'll become a martyr if he dies in prison; he's fasting, urging Indians not to aid war & to non-violently resist until British Raj promises independence. https://t.co/kDPKMLql0L
British colonial authorities have released 75-year-old Indian independence campaigner Mohandas Gandhi from prison; he's been in captivity for two years for "opposing war effort" by urging Indians not to cooperate with British until they "Quit India". https://t.co/Tb9UdVsWpQ
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Bunker after Flooding 2
Close up of fungus bottom left window below curved viewing window in plotting room. 
Mould and fungus on walls on lower level. 
Rot to wooden frame of water tank, lower level. 
Fungus and mold on lower level walls. 
Mould in viewing rooms above plotting room.
FollowBunker After Flooding 1
After being locked out for 3 years we regained access in 2011, only to find the bunker had been flooded. There didn’t appear to be too much damage initially but then the mould, rot and fungus set in. At this point we were locked out again.
Close up of fungus bottom left window below curved viewing window in plotting room. 
Mould and fungus on walls on lower level. 
Rot to wooden frame of water tank, lower level. 
Fungus and mold on lower level walls. 
Mould in viewing rooms above plotting room.
Bunker before flooding.
Some pictures of the interior of the bunker when we first gained access in 2008. The lady in a couple of the pictures is Kitty a former WAAF who was stationed in the bunker during WWII. Notice that all of the walls are intact and freshly painted with no signs of damage.
Shortly after these were taken we were locked out of the bunker for a couple of years.
Corridor at bottom of stairs 
Looking across the plotting room. 
Comms room 
Filing cabinets in Guardhouse 
Fire Extinguishers 
MEtal shelving in the guardhouse 
South passage showing both levels 
Looking frome Tote room to side viewing gallers 
Slave clock in-situ 
Telecoms junction cabinet 
Small amounts of water near emergency exit 
Gents toilet door near previous photo 
Comms booths 
Plotting room doorway 
LOoking up at viewing gallery windows 
LOoking up through larger viewing gallery windows. 
Stairs next to plotting room
Preserving a listed building.
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Visit August 2015
Bank holiday saw another visit to photograph the bunker. Mold continues to run riot, causing damage to the wall boards.
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- Main Stairs
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- Corridor
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- Plant Room
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- Plant Room
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- Plant Room
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- Plotting room
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- Plotting room viewing gallery
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- Corridor with stairs
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- Lower corridor – showing damage from damp
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- Plotting room showing where tote boards should be
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- Plotting room
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- Plotting room
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- corridor and stairs
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- Phone booth room – very mouldy
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- Battery room.
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- Rear lower corridor
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- Mouldy room
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- Plotting room with rusty safe
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- Synchronome slave clock – still works!
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