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Originally posted by svandamme
if you ever want to come visit again ... be sure to visit Ypres, i'll show you around , and not to far from it , is Eperleques.. le Blockhaus..V1-V2 facility.. 15 feet concrete walls, very impressive... the stuff you would see in movies, ...they droppeda 5-6 ton TallBoy on the roof, but it didn't penetrate...just dented the roof a bit... it was that tough...
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Thanks, Stijn, I will gladly take you up on that offer!! I have a friend in Rotterdam who actually joined me for part of my trip through the Forest last August. Would love to visit Ypres.
Hope to return to the Huertgen this summer, in part because I may be able to help locate the body of a German KIA that my dad accidentally 'found' when digging a foxhole - I suspect he may still be there.
pic below is from the back yard of the fellow with the little museum. Marks the spot of an American KIA he discovered when doing some construction work a few years ago. Fellow was identified by dogtags and returned to the States.
