La Coupole, centre d'histoire - Helfaut, Pas-de-Calais, France
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N 50° 42.315 E 002° 14.618
31U E 446590 N 5617321
[FR] En 1943, les Nazis construisent des sites massifs dans le Pas-de-Calais pour déployer leurs armes nouvelles. [EN] In 1943, the Nazis built massive sites in the Pas-de-Calais to deploy their new weapons.
Waymark Code: WMV0H6
Location: Hauts-de-France, France
Date Posted: 02/02/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
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[FR] Les blockhaus de Siracourt et de Lottinghem devaient accueillir la bombe volante ; pour le canon à charges multiples, avaient été creusées les installations souterraines de Mimoyecques, et la fusée A4 disposait, pour son stockage et son lancement, du blockhaus d’Eperlecques et de la Coupole d’Helfaut-Wizernes.

Si les bombardements alliés ont empêché ces installations d'être opérationnelles, ils ne sont pas venus à bout de leurs très résistantes structures en béton massif, avec des murs de 5m d'épaisseur.

La Coupole a été transformée en centre d'histoire et de mémoire, qui inclut un musée. Il accorde une grande place aux liens entre la guerre et la science, et entre la guerre et l'image.

[EN] The blockhouses of Siracourt and Lottinghem were to accommodate the flying bomb; For the cannon with multiple loads, had been dug the underground facilities of Mimoyecques, and the rocket A4 had, for its storage and its launch, the blockhouse of Eperlecques and the Dome of Helfaut-Wizernes.

If the allied bombardments prevented these installations from being operational, they did not overcome their very resistant massive concrete structures, with walls 5m thick.

The Dome has been transformed into a center of history and memory, which includes a museum. It attaches great importance to the links between war and science, and between war and image.
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