Yesterday I managed to get to the Jersey War Tunnels before having to catch my flight. It was basically a musem of the occupation of Germany set up inside an underground hospital that the German's built while they were in charge.
The basic plot was that britian decided it was undefendable and withdrew all military, half the population went with them. The Germans bombed the remaining trucks of potatos as they looked dangerous, took over the island and run arround fortifing it with huge concrete towers. Meanwhile Churchill ignored them and sailed straight arround them and retook France.
Looking at how many forts there were, its hardly suprising; it would have been an absolute blood bath to take, for little use tactically.
The hospital itself was impressive, a grid of tunnels 100m long with rooms and operating theatres waiting for action - though of course it never came.
2 comments:
Man, that place looks awesome, creepy hospitals are definitely down my ally.
Did you get any pictures of the towers at all, it'd be interesting to see what they look like.
The Germans where right to bomb the potatoes btw. They may have been evil potatoes.
I uploaded two photos of the german command post. Basically they were big roundish concrete forts, any sign of where the guns were are gone.
There were other forts made of mortar and stone that looked better (and were better for climbing up!) and these were made by the british, but i never worked out when or why they made them. I would assume it was for earlier skirmishes with the french though.
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