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Old 5th December 2008, 23:08
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Re: Hi Res V Weapons Sites (Noball)

Hello Scott!

I still was not able to identify the unknown Noball site (photo N° 7)...any info you could get would help...

The photo N° 10 shows the Noball site "Mimoyecques" a.k.a. V3 Vergelstung Waffen (projekt "Hochdruckpumpe"). The pen mark delineates the enormous concrete slab with the 3 openings across which for each one a multiple propelling charges cannon would have been firing.
The concrete slab is still there to this day...and there is a museum in the main subterranean gallery of this enormous installation.

The photo N° 12 shows a V1 launching heavy base, but the english photointerpreter mistook the name of the wood: this is indeed the Bois de Radinghem. The Bois de Coupelle has disappeared long ago...Some concrete left, this base was almost obliterated and very much hidden by dense vegetation.

In the ETO set, The photo N° 18 shows the Noball site "Wizernes", actually the area just West of the V2 site (it just beyond the right edge of the photo!). Some "Tallboy" bomb craters are visible (also on "Mimoyecques"photo: the central slab is damaged by one such bomb, and another just missed it by few meters).

Cordially,

JV
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