egbert Posted 23 November , 2007 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2007 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 15 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2008 Then First arrival of a Rumpler Taube in Wahn 1913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 15 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2008 Now First (and final) arrival of Tornado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 15 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2008 PoW camp "Mittellager" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 15 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2008 Now Sat view "Mittellager" General view of PoW muster court Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 15 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2008 General view of PoW parade ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1052 Posted 15 January , 2008 Share Posted 15 January , 2008 Nice pictures, Egbert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rice Posted 15 January , 2008 Share Posted 15 January , 2008 Egbert, Thanks again for sharing these great photo's. Where do you keep getting all these photo's you show us on your various threads. Amazing. Love your ant. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 16 January , 2008 Thanks to both of you. There will be more to come in the next 3 weeks, with emphasis to French and Brit PoW life. and John - where they come from?= its magic and only some 200m away from where I work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 16 January , 2008 Another view angle but same picture as #119 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 17 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 17 January , 2008 General view of PoW camp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 17 January , 2008 Share Posted 17 January , 2008 Fascinating, as ever, Egbert. Thanks for your continuing efforts. What kind of firing went on at the Schiessplatz Wahn – and are there any photos of that ...? Appellplatz, by the way, is 'parade ground' in British English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 17 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 17 January , 2008 What kind of firing went on at the Schiessplatz Wahn – and are there any photos of that ...? All kind of artillery firings. If that is of interest, I'll interrupt the PoW related postings and will show the old artillery zones. Then & Now, as it all started in the 1870s and overlapped to/on a modern map. The printed numbers are the respective year-numbers when the individual ranges were active and later extended in size as artillery weaponry improved w/r to range (capabilities) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dragon Posted 17 January , 2008 Share Posted 17 January , 2008 Thank you for sharing these photos and taking the time to take comparison pictures, Egbert. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1052 Posted 17 January , 2008 Share Posted 17 January , 2008 In January 1979 I spent time at Truppenubungsplatz Munster Lager with Feld Artillerie Battalion 21, Regiment 2, from Harthberg Kaserne, Treysa, Stadt Hesse. Being Leutnant Eisen I was quite a hit with the German officers and NCOs. Egbert, you may recall that in January 1979 there was a big snowstorm that shut down Hamburg and Hannover--because of the snow our field exercise reminded me of Russia or the Ardennes in December 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 17 January , 2008 Share Posted 17 January , 2008 Thanks, Egbert – this looks like quite a small range compared with, say, Meppen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 19 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2008 British prisoners and their interpreters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 19 January , 2008 Share Posted 19 January , 2008 British prisoners and their interpreters Uniforms are not my strong subject, Egbert, but those look like your interpreters ... Great photos – please keep them coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 19 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2008 Well Mick, you do not have the "priviledge" to own the original. The high resolution pic shows one German NCO interpreter, plus two other from my side (one being a guard). All the rest are yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 19 January , 2008 Share Posted 19 January , 2008 Lucky you to own the originals. I'm sure that some of the prisoners did act as interpreters, but how can you tell which ones – did they wear armbands or something similar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 19 January , 2008 Share Posted 19 January , 2008 Hi Egbert Great to see this thread revived. Wahn looks a huge complex -- how big is it and was it always that size? cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 19 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2008 Well Martin, today's Wahn A.F.B. is marked in yellow. Formerly Wahn, to include the artillery range, covered all what you can see in the sat pic as airport area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 19 January , 2008 Share Posted 19 January , 2008 Thanks again, Egbert. Was Camp Altenrath also there during the Great War? And if the present day base is within the yellow perimeter, is the airfield now a joint civil/military operation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 19 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2008 I am not sure about camp A. -have to investigate. Until it was abondened some 3-5 years ago, it was home to a Belgium artillery unit. The airport is Koeln-Bonn, a totally civilian operated big airport, hub for TUIFly, Air Berlin, home to Germanwings @ second largest German air cargo port. There is only a small military annex for the GAF's A 310 fleet and the medium range business jet fleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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