<div dir="ltr">Back in the mid 1980s I got a tour of the pens in La Rochelle. The French Navy was still using part of it. Impressive!!!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:09 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JimToddPsub@aol.com" target="_blank">JimToddPsub@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="3">The U-Boat pens are still there. I just happened to see
a documentary/tour on them about a month ago. They're so massive they're
almost impossible to remove. In France alone they contain 4.4 million cubic
meters of concrete. 12-foot thick roofs and walls are pretty
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<div>In a message dated 9/23/2013 6:44:31 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:josephperkel@yahoo.com" target="_blank">josephperkel@yahoo.com</a> writes:</div>
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<td valign="top">Alan,<br><br>Out of curiosity, are the U-Boat sub pens in
France still in existence, or bombed out?<br><br>I tend to think they
must be there, too many movies have featured at least one unless it was
a rigged set.<br><br>Joe<br><br>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for
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<div>Hi Jim,</div>
<div>No, England till 26th.</div>
<div>Went to the Cherbourg submarine museum in Normandy on the
way.</div>
<div>Well worth the visit & have taken oodles of photos.</div>
<div>Alan</div>
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<div><br clear="none">On 22/09/2013, at 11:14 PM, Jim Todd <<a title="javascript:return" shape="rect" rel="nofollow">jimtoddpsub@aol.com</a>>
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