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1 Index of the FBG Newsletters 2001/1 Light at the end of the tunnel for Stp Schliessen No Photographs at Raversyde 669's as background for a play HQ of LXXXIX Army Cops becomes museum FlaK battery disappeared (again!) World-war I bunker line almost preserved Maginot work don't like visitors 2002/1 Royal bunker Bunker at Kinrooi St-Katelijne-Waver buys bunker German bunker line of 1917 protected? News from the Western Front Scare bunker at Koksijde The large command bunker SK1 at Antwerpen Mortar bunker restored at Jersey New association : PO Sentzich New association : Casemate de Bréhain Day-voyages of the Simon Stevinstichting 2002/2 Bunker 4365 at Kehl, Oberrheinstellung, Festungswerke Gerstfeldhöhe Jersey Bunkers discovered at Knokke (BE) New gun at Raversijde Goblins in bunkers Omaha Beach World War I German bunker at Stekene (BE) Moving copula's Lange Max basements excavated 2003/1 Australia The Darwin East Point guns The Atlanticwall's last casemate The two field batteries of the Le Treport area Bunkers in the Calais area closed! 2003/2 British defence

2 The other side : Hidden secrets Belgian Bunkers Moving the casemate of Vroenhoven The current situation in the region of Maastricht The colour of the uniforms in the The bunkers of E690 in The Creche project at Boulogne (France) 2003/3 Spanish defences Coastal Batteries on Ibiza (Islas Baleares Spain) An unknown part of the in a quiet piece of nature The field battery of Zandvoorde The field battery of Loon-Plage closed The last photo Some by Charles Whiting (list supplied by Y Mayo) 2004/1 60 years ago The pocket of Dunkerque New book : "De. Van de Schelde tot de Somme" Stp Schlieffen finally renovated CIOS Jersey on the web Jersey : Casemate receives gun Texan buys Höcker line New West-Vlaandren (be) WAR MAP A new site about Belgian fortifications Sudwall The battery of Gruissan 2004/2 Uthah Beach Bunkers on the Greek islands of Chios and Lesbos 2004/3 Fortendag Memorial 2004 Tunnel to the bunkers in Antwerp? Mortar bunker is disappearing Actual situation of some bunker sites at the Pas-de-Calais Maginot news Bulgarian coast defense 2005/1 Have a laugh Malta

3 The perfect camouflage! Belgian Forts Eben-Emael Maginot line The casemate of Morfontaine, C14 The small work of Bousse, A.24 Small bunker in Poperinge 75 mm PAK 40 at Hoek van Holland Excavations and restorations in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands 2005/2 Bunkers in De Haan preserved!!! Small bunker in Poperinge The field battery at the Cabour site in Adinkerke Association Fort de La Creche New bunker book about bunkers in the Netherlands New Museum "Remember" in Brittany Maginot line Works are covered with earth Belgian Forts Eben-Emael Flémalle 2005/3 Tancrémont Fort Last working Würzburg radar A second original of the Belgian 12 cm gun Czechoslovakia fortifications Pillboxes of Czechoslovak fortification /4 Spanish fortifications A Coastal battery at San Andrés on Tenerife bunkers at Cap Blanc Nez will disappear. And what about the others? Aire-sur-la-Lys Creche has now a gun Blankenberge Aubin Neufchâteau fort Complete tank recuperated From turret to Tobruk

4 2006/1 Fortification fair Fortendag 2006 British coast defences East Lane Battery, Bawdsey, Suffolk, England There are more Würzburg radars than you think!!! On visit by the French army at Lorient The Veurne bunker is still there!!! Oil tanks at Zwankendamme 2006/2 Fortification fair Fortendag bunker sites on the list be become a monument Fort de la Creche Aerial Photo s France from the air! German World War I bunkers preserved GO Molvange PO Laudrefang GO Agaisen Agenda 2006/3 Congress at Raversijde WN Ludendorf Stp Blankenberghe Mole Two bunkers in Adinkerke A new book Modelling The Cointet obstacle 2006/4 Trenches at Stene Army coastal battery 3/826 Stp Seydlitz Stp Seeckt 2007/1 Confidential Fortification fair : Fortendag 2007 in Eben-Emael

5 special bunkers at the south point of Ile Monsin (Liège, B) Maginot & Sudwall Bunker safari along the French Riviera! 2007/2 Fortification fair : Fortendag 2007 Command bunker 117b destroyed in Westkapelle (be) 20 bunker sites are now preserved monuments! A third Belgian 12 cm is found The ammunition bunkers of Stp Schlieffen Würzburg radar 2007/3 Stp Graf Spee, a radar school on the 2008/1 Passendale 2007 / Paschendaele 1917 FlaK battery Stp Boelcke found at Mariakerke "Halve Maan" bunkers under the sand at Ostend Wanted! Guides for Stp Schlieffen at Adinkerke 2008/2 Survey The heavy FlaK battery of Oorderen near Antwerp The Flak batteries in Antwerp An interesting acquisition, the files of Mr Asseloos about Ostend Who knows more about the German radar post near Wortegem? 1917 German bunkers in Turnhout Belgian named bunker 2008/3 The Cointet element Where are the remaining Cointets? Fortification fair at Dendermonde 2009/1 Fortification Fair on the Heritage Day at Dendermonde Museum of the KW-Line

6 Which fort? Restoration of the east bank of Ostend Cointets WN Waldersee preserved? Maginot line Health and Safety works at Galgenberg 2009/2 The Army Museum in Vienna The machine gun bunker of the Halve Maan at Ostend Tunnel found under the dike in Ostend Bunkers at the Wilrijkse plein in Antwerp Wurzburg radar preserved! Cointets in south-west France Bulgaria An auction of the Bulgarian defence line Maginot line Ouvrage A2 Fermont Maginot fortress for sale 2009/3 "Memorial Du Souvenir" at Dunkirk Luftschutzbunker at Ostend Follow-up : Eastern bank at Ostend The battery of Adinkerke is getting a museum Great Britain Fortification artefacts at Duxford airfield Cold war Belgian command bunker now a museum 2010/1 The Belgian coast defences on the eve of World War 2 Berlin Bunkers in Berlin today Fortress Switserland Masters in camouflage 2010/2

7 Maginot line 70 years ago, the Germans broke through the in the Scheldt sector Spotlight on a museum Bloc du Mont de Justice Casemate du Mont des Bruyères 2010/3 Return to the battlefield May 1940 at the anti-tank ditch above Antwerp 2011/1 Spotlight on a Museum "For Freedom" museum at Ramskapelle (Knokke-Heist) FlaK bunker, L409, found at Ostend Luftschutzbunker at Ostend museum Beckingen museum Dillingen Other bunkers in the region of Dillingen The command bunker at the Kemmelberg Visit the fort of Barchon 2011/2 The "IJzertoren" at Diksmuide What should be in the bunker? 2011/3 The "Rampart Museum" at Ypres The Cold War The nuclear submarine base of Balaklava The Antwerpen-Turnhout Stellung at Stabroek The analysis of a World War I bunker line. Part /1 Musée Historique 39-45

8 The Antwerpen-Turnhout Stellung at Stabroek The analysis of a World War I bunker line. Part /2 Fortendag 2012 Museum : Hürtgenwald 1944 und im Frieden Museum : Regelbau 32, Dressing station bunker The Hürtgenwald, open-air museum Historisch-Literarische Wanderwege Hürtgenwald 1944/1945 Militargeschichtlicher Tourenplanner Eastern Front Sapun Gora 2012/3 Spotlight on a Museum New! Bastogne Ardennes 44 Museum Museum : Bunker d Hitler. Hitler s HQ in Hitler s Other Headquarters 2013/1 Historical bunker 126 of the German Turnhoutkanalstellung of 1917 has been demolished Spotlight on a Museum Museum : Musée de l armée in Paris Overloon Museum The liberation in 1944 The Cromwell tank at the Boomsesteenweg Wilrijk-Antwerpen What do we need to know about the Cromwell tank? Websites 2013/2 Spotlight on a Museum The army museum of Prague The Antwerp Anti-tank ditch New numbering for the bunkers at the Antwerp Anti-tank ditch 2013/3 Return to the battlefield Operation Husky, the allied landing in Sicily

9 Spotlight on a Museum Museo Storico dello Sbarco in Sicilia 1943 Other artifacts Websites 2014/1 Bunker found in Nieuwpoort (BE) The submarine base at St Nazaire (FR) MKB Behnke Spotlight on a Museum Musée des blindés 2014/2 The Czechoslovakian fortress line A well restored bunker in Slovakia Artillery Piece of heritage found in a Belgian barracks Model building Bunker in Fecamp Burglary in bunker (BE) 2014/ Remains of the German coastal batteries 2015/1 D-Day The German coastal battery of Longues-sur-Mer (WN 48) The German coastal battery of Merville Excavation of the Höcker Linie 2015/2 Great Britain Pillboxes on the Isles of Scilly Artillery Piece of heritage found in a Belgian barracks 2016/1 Bunker discovered at Bredene An unusual construction of Czech hedgehogs Have a laugh

10 2016/2 The reinforced sector of the river Saar 2017/1 The unknown batteries of D-Day 2017/2 Spain The coastal batteries of Cartagena The Hollandstellung, 1917 Bunker has to be rebuilt Latest news Trenches found in Nieuwpoort Bad Concrete WW-1 bunker of the Antwerpen battery found Bunkers in de city park of Antwerp 2017/3 World War I Bunkers at Blankenberg protected World War II The difference between the Sherman and the Chaffee tank and its guns

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