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micheal418 Private
Number of posts : 4 Registration date : 2010-02-26
| Subject: Heavy vehicle recovery training area. 28/2/2010, 22:49 | |
| 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 | |
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Number of posts : 46 Age : 80 Localisation : Stamford, Lincs Cap Badge : RA Places Served : Munsterlager, Dortmund, Bergen-Hohne, Larkhill, Celle, as well as NI (x4), Canada, Paris and Catterick Registration date : 2008-08-15
| Subject: Re: Heavy vehicle recovery training area. 2/3/2010, 10:16 | |
| 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. | |
| | | micheal418 Private
Number of posts : 4 Registration date : 2010-02-26
| Subject: Re: Heavy vehicle recovery training area. 2/3/2010, 19:11 | |
| 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. | |
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Number of posts : 46 Age : 80 Localisation : Stamford, Lincs Cap Badge : RA Places Served : Munsterlager, Dortmund, Bergen-Hohne, Larkhill, Celle, as well as NI (x4), Canada, Paris and Catterick Registration date : 2008-08-15
| Subject: Re: Heavy vehicle recovery training area. 4/3/2010, 08:17 | |
| Hi Michael. Since you're a member you can always send me a private message. | |
| | | micheal418 Private
Number of posts : 4 Registration date : 2010-02-26
| Subject: Re: Heavy vehicle recovery training area. 4/3/2010, 08:36 | |
| How do I go about that.
M.French. | |
| | | micheal418 Private
Number of posts : 4 Registration date : 2010-02-26
| Subject: Re: Heavy vehicle recovery training area. 5/5/2012, 15:14 | |
| 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 | |
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Number of posts : 1119 Age : 83 Localisation : Berkshire Cap Badge : REME Places Served : Rotenburg Ploen Lippstadt Hamm Wetter Minden Munster Bielefeldt Dusseldorf Registration date : 2008-11-09
| Subject: Re: Heavy vehicle recovery training area. 6/5/2012, 18:05 | |
| 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. | |
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