I was a Royal Air Force MT Fitter,(VM in army parlance). I was attached to 1(BR)Corps.Tp.Wksps. Recovery section, in Mossbank Barracks, during the mid-sixties. I watched the `66 world cup final in `IM WINKEL` a bar just outside Mossbank Barracks.
We used very rough, muddy site, not too far from Bielefeld, as a training area, and to host a TA unit on their summer camp.
This site had a large earth ramp. large enough to drive a small truck up. We were told that the ramp had been used for launching WW2 V1 flying bombs. Near this ramp was a memorial to 150 soviet people (burger) who had died there between 1941 and 1945.
Does anyone know where this place is and what happened there during the war.

M.French

Can't help with the loc, Michael, but I doubt very much that your hill was a V1 Launch Ramp - they were all in the Pas de Calais area apart from test ramps in the East. There's a good website here: http://www.smg-authie.co.uk/ligescourt_02.htm if you want to learn more.

Thanks for reply to my question. I realise this site could not be used against England, and the testing was done in the East, but V1`s were fired against Antwerp and I have never heard of from where, apart from by aircraft.
I am new to this, and any, website. How do I get to know who I am talking to.

Michael French.

Hi Michael. Since you're a member you can always send me a private message.

How do I go about that.

M.French.

With regards to the request I made about the training area we used back in the mid-sixties, I put the picture on my Panoramio site. I have recieved an Email from Germany with the following answer.
Panzerubungsgelande in Handorf.
Munster-Handorf/ost.
The site is just South of a village called Dorbaum, which is the name that I remember.
The area looks on Google Earth as if it may have been a wartime airfield.
Mick French

Michael

Dorbaum was the low level back door training area for British and later other NATO unis based in Munster, doubtless there are a number of contributors to this site who will recall he area in due course.