British Royal Navy ships have completed Operation Pedestal: dangerous convoy carrying desperately-needed food & fuel to Malta through a gauntlet of Axis warships. They've taken terrible losses en-route. https://t.co/TDam8OwTxK
Enemy Airmen’s Act inspired by “Doolittle Raid”, American bombing of Tokyo in April, which has left Japanese govt. furious & embarrassed. Under new law, US airmen captured after that raid can now be executed. https://t.co/No7VkAQwAF
Japanese military continue to enthusiastically use bombing, especially against Chinese who lack effective air defences. Japanese bombs have killed 10,000s of Chinese civilians, incl. this raid on Shanghai railway station 5 years ago: https://t.co/8tJm7VvzFm
Allied assault on Solomon Islands advances- US Marines & Australian soldiers have captured Tulagi & reinforced Guadacanal beachhead: https://t.co/NyFDTmXOTP
"Operation Pedestal" is inflicting a dreadful cost on Allied ships: one aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle, has been sunk, 2 more carriers badly damaged, & other escorts & merchant ships sunk with 100s of deaths. https://t.co/rs4SZpYVoN
British making a major attempt to transport desperately needed supplies to besieged island of Malta: 50 Allied ships, including 4 aircraft carriers & an oil tanker, are daring German & Italian warships, bombers, & submarines. https://t.co/FmgOo8CTPK
Captain Baron Adrian von Fölkersam leads 62 disguised Russian-speaking Germans & Baltic volunteers in a secret raid to save oil fields from Soviet sabotage. https://t.co/OhqwRoeDFN
After weeks of punishing advance into Caucasus, German panzers have reached Maikop, gateway to the vast Soviet oilfields. https://t.co/8OlNREvk76
Claiming that campaign for Indian independence "threatens open revolt", forces of the British Raj have imprisoned Gandhi, Nehru & all Indian Congress Party leaders. https://t.co/QwlarQbf4G
With Churchill's first choice for new commander of the Eight Army in Egypt, General Gott, dead in a plane crash, Churchill appoints a relatively unknown officer, Bernard Montgomery: https://t.co/2SWsPcYbVu
Churchill has flown to Egypt to visit Allied troops- & to sack Allied commanders for not attacking Rommel aggressively enough. https://t.co/r06NjX9rra
60,000 Allied troops have stormed ashore on the south Pacific islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi & Florida, outnumbering Japanese defenders by 2-1. https://t.co/bMmGxEfbZl
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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