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Re: Evreux Airbase: tunnels
Sounds plausible. I was at Mannheim-Sandhofen the same year you visited Évreux-Fauville and it also had numerous buried bunkers that everyone was cautioned to leave undisturbed. We were told that some of them might contain unexploded ordnance and perhaps even war gas canisters. One bunker was opened while I was in Mannheim and it contained hundreds of cases of 9mm ammo. The base gun club confiscated it and sold it dirt cheap for use on the club pistol range for those lucky enough to have found a Luger or a Walther for sale somewhere. As I recall, the rounds were perfectly serviceable once you wiped the green corrosion off of them that had accumulated after ±15 years of storage in a damp, underground bunker.
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