INSIDE HITLER'S V1 LAUNCH SITE CODENAMED 'WATERWORKS'!

Wasserwerk Desvres was one of five massive WW2 German V1 flying bomb heavy storage facility and launch sites planned for construction in northern France.
There was to be two in the Pas de Calais area – Siracourt and Lottinghen – and three in Normandy around Cherbourg at Brecourt, Couville, and Tamerville.
They would each consist of one large storage and workshop bunker over 200m long and around 40m wide with supporting buildings including generator bunkers, water supply reservoirs, and launch ramps – with two launch ramps planned for each.
To hide their true identity and function, the sites were codenamed ‘Wasserwerk’, or waterworks.
In early 1943, construction began on two sites in the Pas de Calais region – Wasserwerk St Pol, at Siracourt, and Wasserwerk Desvres, near Lottinghen, which is inland of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
The main building at Wasserwerk Desvres was due to be even larger than partially completed Siracourt site at 228m long by 45m wide and featuring walls of five metres thickness.
It was bombed for the first time in late February 1944 and eight more raids on the site followed before the project was abandoned.
Today, the Wasserwerk Desvres site is difficult to find as it has been reclaimed by woodland and is heavily overgrown.
Join us as we take you on a walkaround and even crawl inside this massive megastructure...

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