Soviet troops are flooding across Caucasus, encircling Italian & Hungarian armies & isolating Germans in Stalingrad. https://t.co/geZfMS8ZCH
After a week's conference in Casablanca, Allied leaders, led by President Roosevelt & Prime Minister Churchill, have announced that they demand "unconditional surrender" from the Axis powers. https://t.co/r7uufXMzKD
“Stalingrad is conquered!”German Ministry of Propaganda orders the destruction of never-issued posters produced six months ago, in anticipation of Axis victory at Stalingrad. https://t.co/Hc5nG2dZ0Q
At Allied war council in Casablanca, US President Roosevelt meets Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, asking: “Why does Morocco, inhabited by Moroccans, belong to France?” Promises: “When we've won the war,” USA will not “further imperialistic ambitions.” https://t.co/3eWH4x3veC
8th Army have travelled 1400 miles from El Alamein to Tripoli in last 80 days, along rocky single coast road, carrying almost all water & fuel with them. Men carry 50lbs of food each, plus weekly ratio of 50 cigarettes & 2 packs of matches. https://t.co/QtzMy7DYIZ
Mussolini’s dream of a new Roman Empire stretching across North Africa is dead. Little is left but vanity monuments: like “Marble Arch” in the Libyan desert, 31-metre triumphal arch in Roman Travertine stone. https://t.co/YxbfL6bepa
British 8th Army are parading in Tripoli, after Italian governor surrendered the city, & the colony of Libya, to the Allies. Fascist Italy’s North African empire is dead. https://t.co/MtUEPZh5If
Papua is the first definitive Allied victory against the Japanese on land. Battle has raged in the territory for 6 months, with 2000 Australians & 600 dead, & 13,000 Japanese dead or taken prisoner. https://t.co/isWbz9QvWz
Japanese troops have finally been driven from the island of Papua; Australian & US forces have captured Sanananda, where last remnants of Japanese army, starving & disease-ridden, held a network of bunkers. https://t.co/I5b0K14Gf1
British codebreakers at Bletchley Park have deciphered an intercepted message to Himmler, head of the SS: the “Höfle telegram” contains detailed statistics on number of Jewish victims killed in 4 Nazi concentration camps last year. 1,274,166 people were murdered. https://t.co/qnJU6kyCJ6
Sandhurst Road School, in London, has been hit by 500-kilo German bomb during a daylight Luftwaffe "terror raid". 38 children & 6 teachers have been killed, 60 more injured- many buried under rubble for hours while desperate parents clawed at the ruins. https://t.co/TJIHw9cCTu
US bombers have hit a Japanese convoy off the coast of Burma, sinking transport ship Nichimei Maru. Americans are unaware 985 Dutch prisoners are onboard, over 50 of whom die to Allied air strike. https://t.co/wg6Svejgdx
Japanese forces are preparing to evacuate from Guadalcanal, after repeated offensives have failed to break American positions on the island; New York Times map shows the growing Allied strength in the Pacific: https://t.co/oeAKXsQZ6i
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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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