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[JB4310]

He figured by the time the "bomb" was dropped and armageddon was emminent, there really was not much of a point in staying in a concrete hole for 20-30 years!

Reminds of a twilight zone episode. I was never even a big fan of TZ but that episode always stuck with me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shelter_(The_Twilight_Zone)

Always hear about those cold war shelters but never seen any. My older home was built/owned by a well off factory owner, I'm always thinking maybe I'll unearth one

JB

 

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interesting thanks for sharing

 

[MossRoad]

.... My older home was built/owned by a well off factory owner, I'm always thinking maybe I'll unearth one

JB

The Oliver family (Oliver plows and tractors) and the Studebaker family (Studebaker wagons, then later cars) both had mansions here in South Bend, IN. The entire factory areas on the south west side of South Bend is riddled with a tunnel system. Some are just for people. Some are large enough to drive trucks through. There was one tunnel from the Studebaker mansion to the factory so the Studebakers wouldn't have to walk in the snow and it doubled as an escape route... rumors of Indian attacks, which were probably unfounded. Anyhow, many of the larger truck tunnels were built because of WWII so factory work could continue underground. I have friends that work on some of the old factory buildings and they have a real problem with homeless people and scrappers coming into the factories stealing copper wire and such. The tunnels are accessible from many of the abandoned buildings in town, and also through some manholes. There are barriers erected in the tunnels to try to keep them out, but they just keep working on them until they break through. Kinda creepy going down into the third lower level of a factory basement only to find filthy homeless guys cutting into your live wiring.

 

[JB4310]

The Oliver family (Oliver plows and tractors) and the Studebaker family (Studebaker wagons, then later cars) both had mansions here in South Bend, IN. The entire factory areas on the south west side of South Bend is riddled with a tunnel system. Some are just for people. Some are large enough to drive trucks through. There was one tunnel from the Studebaker mansion to the factory so the Studebakers wouldn't have to walk in the snow and it doubled as an escape route... rumors of Indian attacks, which were probably unfounded. Anyhow, many of the larger truck tunnels were built because of WWII so factory work could continue underground. I have friends that work on some of the old factory buildings and they have a real problem with homeless people and scrappers coming into the factories stealing copper wire and such. The tunnels are accessible from many of the abandoned buildings in town, and also through some manholes. There are barriers erected in the tunnels to try to keep them out, but they just keep working on them until they break through. Kinda creepy going down into the third lower level of a factory basement only to find filthy homeless guys cutting into your live wiring.

Except for the threat of an obnoxious hobo I would love to explore those tunnels.

Been in some interesting WW2 tunnels and bunkers in Poland. One was a train tunnel through a small mt/hill ~1/4 mile long, was designed to shelter munitions trains with steel blast doors and gaurd pill boxes at each end.

Inside there where smaller tunnels branched out with a steel rail mounted to the ceiling, for moving cargo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqkfJJUz1s&feature=related

Other large bunkers would have a network of smaller bunkers around them for support.

JB.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Except for the threat of an obnoxious hobo I would love to explore those tunnels.

Been in some interesting WW2 tunnels and bunkers in Poland. One was a train tunnel through a small mt/hill ~1/4 mile long, was designed to shelter munitions trains with steel blast doors and gaurd pill boxes at each end.

Inside there where smaller tunnels branched out with a steel rail mounted to the ceiling, for moving cargo.

YouTube - Bunkier Hitlera St?pina Anlage Sud

Other large bunkers would have a network of smaller bunkers around them for support.

JB.

I bet you would enjoy this We were building a defense line of fortresses before WWII - it never got to be used, but some of them our now accessible for tourists.

More pictures.

 

[texasjohn]

Thanks for posting.

Once in a while, like this, if we watch and listen to the silent testimony, we get a glimmer of the shadows that can fall on humans, our resiliency, lessons learned and an individuals' unflagging determination to avoid/escape evil.

I've seen much bluster regarding home protection and personal protection. This fellow was deadly serious about spending massive personal energy to achieve it. WWII is a fading memory now, but those who lived it and survived were forever changed in ways I simply cannot fully appreciate. Or, at least, I have not been personally driven, as this fellow must have been, to exert such extreme effort and resource to be so self sufficient in personal and home protection.

May we all be spared the life changing experience which would drive us to such protective lengths!!

 

[ddigger]

Amen brother!

 

[JB4310]

I bet you would enjoy this We were building a defense line of fortresses before WWII - it never got to be used, but some of them our now accessible for tourists.

More pictures.

Cool, I like the armored military vehicles too.

Thanks for posting.

Once in a while, like this, if we watch and listen to the silent testimony, we get a glimmer of the shadows that can fall on humans, our resiliency, lessons learned and an individuals' unflagging determination to avoid/escape evil.

May we all be spared the life changing experience which would drive us to such protective lengths!!

Well along this train of thought, this is from Poland also. very moving to see in person. I had heard about it but had to search for it as it's not that well known.
Child partisan fighter from Warsaw ghetto.
Ma?y Powstaniec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

JB.

 

[czechsonofagun]

The Warsaw uprising was very ugly - with russians near by and waiting for the Poles to be all killed. The process of pacifying of a nation, Poles killed in the uprising would very likely be disruptive under the Russian rule over Poland later on. And germans used Vlasov's units to fight the uprising too.

Russians did the same thing with the Slovakia uprising; anybody wonder why we don't like Russians and/or communists?