Perhaps the most intriguing underground network of Nazi military tunnels is the series of seven structures that make up Project Riese. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. Originally codenamed Wiese (Meadow) or Bauvorhaben 711 (Construction Project 711), it is located in the commune of Landrethun-le-Nord in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Boulogne-sur-Mer. The bunker was never fully completed due to continuous Allied bombing raids that was intended to delay or incapacitate the V-weapons programme (also part of Operation Crossbow). Deep Underground Military Bases Concealing Aliens, Weapons and Transdimensional Portals through the magick of audio explores this realm and takes the listener deeper into the mystery. With John Ventre, Dwight Equitz, Jason McClellan, Michael Schratt. Then a Man in Black forced him into the shadow world of black budgets, military underground bases and the secret war with the Grey aliens. By the 1980s, as the Cold War dragged on and the public became increasingly frustrated with the British nuclear programme, regular protests were held outside the main gate. To find suitable locations for these bunkers, Padmore looked for sites far enough away from populated areas to not be at risk of a direct hit, deep enough underground to protect the inhabitants from nuclear fallout but still practical enough to support life for months at a time. More than 30 gears and a dozen lifts stretching from the working-class East End to the heart of Whitehall connect the Postmaster Generals tunnel to a secret underground network, which mostly emerges unobtrusively into government buildings and telephone exchanges. Yet, until recently, authorities remained conspicuously secretive about them, many owned by the Ministry of Defence and never publicly acknowledged. However, in June and July 1944 the RAF began attacking the site with 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg), ground-penetrating Tallboy bombs. Only a fraction of the entire site was converted for use as a Regional Seat of Government. Join 600,000+ Future fans by liking us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Instagram. Do we have the assets to continue to run our sustainment? he said. "In March 2020, the United States deployed 30,000 troops to Europe to assist with the excavation of 'DUMBS' also known as Deep Underground Military Bases," the unidentified narrator of the . Some of these bases, though, were more creative in their construction. This is driven by the Armys vision for being prepared to fight in any terrain across the globe against near-peer threats and nonstate actors. Tunnel 1 has had its air ducts removed, showing its full height; the tunnels are easily big enough to fit a double-decker bus (Credit: William Park). Monday 14 September 2015 11:13, UK. The enthusiasts working to document these basesand the clandestine Auxiliary Units that manned themknow what theyre looking for, though. Each unit of eight or so men had its own operational base, often constructed with the help of the Royal Engineers. It has been privately owned since, but for the most part has remained unchanged. Beneath the hills of the Scottish Highlands lies one of the largest underground structures ever built by man. Marine Corps experts in underground fighting in Twentynine Palms, California, declined to be interviewed for this piece. Theyve gone underground to match our overmatch, said retired Army Maj. John Spencer, chairman of Urban Warfare Studies with the Modern War Institute at West Point. London is filled with mysterious tunnel systems and underground chambers (Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images). FORT BRAGG, N.C. It is darkness like youve never seen. Heavy Allied bombing hindered construction but it continued until the end of June 1944, when the site was wrecked by Tallboy bombs dropped by the Royal Air Force. The Admiralty Citadel in 2008. In 1978, a military policeman was following a low flying aircraft through the wilderness of the army base during the wee hours of a frigid January morning. Chances are, anyone on the outside listening to the broadcasts were in a far worse state than anyone on the inside. Published: 10:34 EST, 15 December 2013 | Updated . Among London's many subterranean secrets, some of the most alluring are the concrete bunkers from the second world war and the cold war and even those in use today. This story is a part of BBC Britain a series focused on exploring this extraordinary island, one story at a time. 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A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Culture, Worklife and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter called "The Essential List". Today, keeping the tunnels dry is an even bigger challenge than it was then: the main generator on the site has broken and the volunteers rely exclusively on the back-up generator to power their lights and dehumidifier. In 1940, the Nazi Army was sweeping quickly across Europe, into Norway, Denmark, and France. There was also the deep underground complex at Canadian Forces Base North Bay and another centre at the now-decommissioned military base in Calgary. QinetiQ base entance from the report. The walls and ceiling could collapse. They house full-running hospitals. Army officials confirmed to Military.com that there is an approved plan to dedicate $572 million to . Above ground level, this 4,500 square-foot luxury house, located about 140 miles west of Dallas, has three bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, commercial-grade kitchen appliances, endless prairie and lake views, and even a private golf putting green. We have set up a network of active investigators who relay their gathered information through to our HQ. On top of this they said part of the building has been made to look like a flying saucer. The top secret, high security site was in the Masurian woods about 8km (5.0mi) east of the small East Prussian town of Rastenburg (now Ktrzyn, Poland). DARPA is on the look out for a new underground military tunnel or base, putting out a request for university-owned or commercially managed underground urban tunnels. News has recently emerged of global elites (aka cabal) going to Antarctica for a secret meeting. PARANORMAL investigators claim to have rumbled a top-secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) alien research centre hidden deep underground in a UFO hotspot. The bunker at RAF Air Command in Buckinghamshire was built during the Cold War as a safe . In the event of a nuclear attack on London, power would pass to local heads of government who would control fragments of the UK from inside their nuclear bunker. On the side, she has written magazine articles and books. Todd South has written about crime, courts, government and the military for multiple publications since 2004 and was named a 2014 Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation. Devonport Naval Base, Auckland.Incorporates the Naval Support Command and HMNZS Philomel, which in turn incorporates the Naval College Tamaki (formerly HMNZS Tamaki). But they said the smoking gun evidence for the secret base were cryptic signs in the building and on site. One of the big sticking points, according to Stephanie Bricker, team leader at Urban Geoscience, British Geological Survey, who is working on Project Iceberg, is that theres no central place where all the data about the underground city is stored. Armies today do not have that luxury. OBrien stressed that elements of subterranean have been included in training for years. 10 Nazi bunkers and subterranean bases built by the Third Reich during World War II. Stories of secret underground passages and hidden subterranean bunkers seem to fascinate us all. While the initial focus of the British Geological Survey has been on utilities that is, gas, electric, water pipe networks, and so on there are cultural and historical aspects of the underground that are not being explored. Another was built in a badgers den; another in an old root cellar. ", An MoD spokesman said: "We do not comment on UFO matters.". Deep underground military base. The Adit A entrance, used when the tunnels were turned into a nuclear bunker, is the entrance which volunteers use today (Credit: William Park). The lost treasures of Londons River Thames, A trattoria with a hidden ancient underworld, Underground Cities: Mapping the tunnels, transits and networks underneath our feet, Urban Geoscience, British Geological Survey, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter. Inert training bombs sit on carts, at right, ready to be loaded onto the aircraft. After the war, they were supposed to be destroyed, but many were not. The bunkerswere usually about 12 to 15 feet in length and tall enough to stand up in. "One source (who holds a sensitive government post) says that he knows several people currently employed at British underground facilities where acquired alien technology and genetics programmes are being carried out.". Inside one of the extractor fans; the vent is easily big enough to stand up in (Credit: William Park). The Fortress of Mimoyecques is the modern name for a Second World War underground military complex built by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944. The Marine Corps has underground features at its urban training facility at Twentynine Palms, California. Who is living in them? There was much more of a need to use the spaces below the city than there had been pretty much anywhere else. Watch popular content from the following creators: GenerationZedPodcast(@generationzedpodcast), EarthAmazing(@earthamazing), pedrodelesmajr(@pedrodelesmajr), Sam Burgess(@l0cation_unknown), Dennis(@patriot.knowledge), DulceBaseFiles(@dulcebasefiles), Anto Cusack (@anto_zeus_belfast), Stormyskiesbbear . The complex consists of a network of tunnels dug under a chalk hill, linked to five inclined shafts in which 25 V-3 guns would have been installed, all targeted on London. Experts says it is the most heavily-fortified country in the world. As reporters of the truth, duties of the BEAMS Team include research, interviewing, photography and journalism. Army officials confirmed to Military.com that there is an approved plan to dedicate $572 million to the effort. To make the castle suitable for military occupation, two levels of tunnels were bored 53m (175ft) under the courtyard and joined to the train line at Lubiechow by a narrow gauge railway allowing direct access by rail into the castle. Given how important they once were, it seems surprising that the tunnels are all but forgotten today. Much of the company and below training conducted by the estimated 160 paratroopers at Fort Bragg consisted of building on standard infantry skills, such as room clearing. Set within a 240-acre abandoned quarry, it was a sprawling underground city, a 35-acre network of hidden entrances, streets, canteens, and purpose-built rooms designed to house Prime Minister . [6] Some bases are in such remote locations that they do not need guards present. It was constructed by Organisation Todt,a Third Reich civil and military engineering group in Germany named after its founder, Fritz Todt for the Wehrmacht during the occupation of the Channel Islands. Signs from above: The Qinetiq site, and insets Aboriginal art and the Farnborough flying saucer, Investigator Kenneth Parsons superimposed onto mock-up picture of a Farnborough 'big' alien sighting, Report co-author Hilary Porter claims to have been abducted by aliens a number of times. Access is allowed in rare . The unknown factor, permeates virtually every aspect of anti-tunnel operations from the strategic level down to the tactical level, and even the technical level and in degrees exponentially higher than in above ground operations, she wrote. It was intended to house a battery of V-3 cannons aimed at London, 165 kilometres (103 mi) away. It breaks everything we train, Spencer said. The complex, which became one of several Fhrerhauptquartiere (Fhrer Headquarters) in various parts of eastern Europe, was built for the start of Operation Barbarossa the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. ; Tamaki Leadership Centre, Whangaparaoa . Whilst the dome was unscathed, the external construction works were completely wrecked and the bunker suffered mass internal damage and was jeopardised from underneath. 748 Likes, TikTok video from Shawn Ryan Show (@shawnryanshow): "Have you ever heard of the deep underground military bases? Having seen the effect of a nuclear attack in Japan, the British government commissioned the Strath Committee, led by head of the Central War Plans Secretariat William Strath, to analyse the potential effects of a nuclear attack on the UK. MOST of North Korea's military bases are buried deep underground and in mountains. The lease on the only permanent US military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier is $63 million a year. There are more than 1.5 million km of underground services water, sewer, gas and electricity services in the UK, and an estimated 4 million km or more of data lines. Until then, the method of surrounding soldiers to give them a tunnel-like feel will be to use existing buildings and to acquire old Conex boxes, weld them together to create narrow passages, officials said. We can over focus on the 2D aspect, I would want to get my hands on any mapping, old maps to get an idea of whats the underground aspect, he said. George Fletcher, company commander of Bone Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, said that his main takeaway was focusing on communication. Its one of very few sites in the UK with such an important involvement in both World War Two and the Cold War. If you cant breathe, you cant fight, always remember that, was a repeated mantra one trainer drilled for soldiers dealing with clean air supply and chemical threats. Only Iran seems to have been refused a berth in Djibouti. Top-secret military construction did not end with World War Two. In the . But the clincher, in their opinion, was the roundabout system near the main building. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The bunker sustained repeated bombing raids by Allied forces during a joint Anglo-American campaign called Operation Crossbow, which was an initiative to remove the threat of German long-range weapons programs. If they tell me this stairway is not stopping that tells me I have to call back to my higher headquarters and tell them that hey, this isnt a company fight, this may be a battalion fight, he said. Just like we get narrowly focused on urban by putting up a shoot house, if someone does get training on a subterranean event, they focus on a small tunnel, he said. These associated tables, references, notes, and report present a synthesis of some notable geotechnical and engineering information used to create four interactive layer maps for selected: 1) deep mines and shafts; 2) existing, considered or planned radioactive waste management deep underground studies or disposal facilities 3) deep large diameter boreholes, and 4) physics . Built into a disused chalk quarry, La Coupole consisted of a network of tunnels for storage, launch facilities, housing quarters and control facilities. It's almost impossible to find one of Britain's secret, underground military bases unless you know what to look for. It was intended to house a battery of V-3 cannons aimed at London, 165 kilometres (103 mi) away. Below grade, there's a 1,000-square-foot structure with . The word "dumbs" used in this sense represents "Deep Underground Military Bases" or D.U.M.B.s. When Drakelow Tunnels served as a nuclear bunker, employees worked in rooms like this one, which was a former Regional Seats of Government (RSG) office (Credit: William Park). Deep beneath Croatian soil lies the Zeljava Underground Air Base used in both world wars. The report said: "As with the top-secret Area 51 in Nevada, and how that officially did "not exist" for decadesif what we are about to expose 'does not exist' either (as it is bound to be claimed), then our Government/military have absolutely nothing to fear from us talking about it - do they?". Fascinating images offer a peek inside the top secret US Army Dugway Proving Ground deep in Utah desert. One was built below the basement of an abandoned, burnt-out manor house. These mysterious Cold War-era tunnel systems and underground chambers, which number in the hundreds, have been a source of fascination for decades. This pastoral scene, captured in 2016 at the former Greenham Common Royal Air Force station in Berkshire, England, is a far cry from the early 1980s, when 35,000 gathered to protest the World War . Officials did not confirm exact numbers of how many brigades have or will receive the training, but the goal is to spread the fundamentals across the force. Named The OWO, the London landmark is set to open as one of the worlds highest-profile hotels in 2022. However, the steel shields absorbed most of the heat, expanding in a controlled way and had any rock fallen away from the ceiling, the workers would have been protected. In 1944 the Third Reich began work on the construction of a partially underground bunker factory codenamed Weingut I (English: Vineyard I) in the forest known as the Mhldorfer Hart(de), slightly to the west of Mhldorf am Inn in Upper Bavaria. The air inside the tunnels is very damp. While the training the paratroopers experienced sets the stage, more questions remain. After the war, they were supposed to be destroyed, but many were simply left to decay. Whilst no documentary evidence has survived the war as to the bunkers purpose, it is believed that B8 Bergkristall was an underground factory where the Messerschmitt Me 262 the first operational jet fighter was built. Two of its key researchers, chairman Kenneth Parsons and his "alien abductee" partner Hilary Porter, carried out the "inquiry" and said evidence of the underground areas came from government whistleblowers. Is it true? And then they were moribund and simply have never been mapped by any public project because there was never seen to be any need for them to do so.. But panicked, shallow breathing can reduce that to half the time. Basically this Underground Base is 8 cities on top of each other! AMERICAN special forces engaged in a massive firefight with ALIENS who had established a base deep below the New Mexico desert, an eye witness said. They would have told the public to get in their bathtubs or whatever the advice was back then, says Scott. To the untrained eye, the entrance might look like a random hole in the ground. Nigel Watson, author of the UFOs: The Nazi Connection, said: "It sounds like they are trying to bring a lot of separate things to make (something) whole.". Overseas military bases of the United Kingdom enable the British Armed Forces to conduct expeditionary warfare and maintain a forward presence.Bases tend to be located in or near areas of strategic or diplomatic importance, often used for the build-up or resupply of military forces, as was seen during the 1982 Falklands War and the use of RAF Ascension Island as a staging post. Theres very little here that doesnt need replacing., Old computers sit in the RSG offices (Credit: William Park). One of the only reasons theyre known at all is that historians, enthusiasts, and veteran Auxiliaries has been documenting the history of these covert units and seeking out the remains of their secret underground baseswhen they can find them. Hiding nearly 200 feet underground, the Rolling Hills Missile Silo is located in an undisclosed area of central Kansas, USA. Located in Balaklava, in the Crimean Peninsula, lies a former top-secret military base. The last private owners were the Hochberg family, who lost possession of the castle in 1944 to the Nazi party after falling into debt. The Bristol Aeroplane Company used several sites in the UK, each manufacturing components of aircraft that were then distributed to other plants to be assembled together. Through the heavy steel door, visitors would have had to strip, incinerate their clothes and shower as they decontaminated themselves. The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) website. Will truth about 'UFO crash in Roswell desert' 68 years ago TODAY AREA 51: 'I see aliens and was abducted at top-secret US military Case closed: The 'smoking gun' evidence for Qinetiq site being UK Area 51, Drawing by Hilary Porter of one of her UFO sightings in Farnborough. In 1980, Drakelow became a Regional Government Headquarters a name change that meant a reduced staff but essentially the same function. The 3rd BCT, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado is next in line for the training. Best issued on return from Patrol.. (Lance Cpl. By Jon Austin 05:43, Thu, Oct 1, 2015 . Yet, until recently, authorities have remained conspicuously secretive about them. He would like to see battalion, brigade and higher staff incorporate subterranean in their planning and wargaming, not as an afterthought but as both an offensive and defensive aspect of the fight. Nearly all of them are on private land, and we never divulge where the exact locations are, says Sykes. Unlike Drakelow, Mittelwerk was left in ruins after the war. Mary A. Joyce has worked for two major metropolitan area newspapers as a feature editor, Sunday magazine editor, columnist and artist. Situated 900-1,200 meters (3,000-4,000 ft) below the Earth's surface near the Pentagon, the facility was designed to resist blasts of 200- to 300-megaton weapons . The complex was captured by allied forces in September 1944 and has since been converted into a museum dedicated to the history of the German V programme. Britains mysterious underground tunnels have been a source of fascination for decades. For the first time, however, the agency is attempting to create a detailed picture of the UKs subterranean landscape by mapping its underground assets. Those include the Tunnel Warfare Center in China Lake, California, Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona; White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Story, Virginia; Fort Hood, Texas; and Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Indiana, likely the most complex of the list. I think the Army is in an interesting place where theyre beginning to have an opportunity to lift their head up and look at the horizon for potential threats, Scharre said. Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. Spencer compared some of the thinking to what he has observed in his study of military urban focus: gaps in imagination. Food and water would be contaminated, the NHS would be overwhelmed with four million serious casualties and 12 million deaths, and industry would shut down. An emergency bell inside Drakelow's safe room, which has no windows and a heavy steel door (Credit: William Park). The centrepiece of Project Riese would have been a far older building the 13th-Century Ksiaz Castle in the city of Walbryzch. Winner will be selected at random on 04/01/2023. What was once the stuff of urban legends now spreads virally through social media claims the tunnels beneath our cities are used for child trafficking. In case of attack, announcements would have been broadcast from a machine like this one, which was donated by a BBC Radio station and is not the original (Credit: William Park). Email us at exclusive@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4104. $31.99; $31.99; Publisher Description. However, the work was never completed because of the rapid advance of the Red Army during the Baltic Offensive in autumn 1944. We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. In America alone there are over 120 Deep Underground Military Bases situated under most major cities, US AFBs, US Navy Bases and US Army Bases, as well as underneath FEMA Military Training Camps and. They have been building these bases day and night, unceasingly, since the 1940s. Going underground, in dark, tight spaces, can trigger feelings of helplessness in even experienced troops. The expert believes that the alleged bases have passageways leading into the sea. ", the report said: "Why incorporate a massive image of an alien, or supreme creator within a top secret subterranean military site - somewhere so sensitive that it is virtually our own British equivalent of the Area 51 complex in Nevada.". Its here that the hottest machine work would have been conducted. Its thought that the site would have become a headquarters for Project Riese, from which all six of the factories could be managed and there is some suggestion that the grand castle would have been used as one of Adolf Hitlers Fuhrer Headquarters, although with the war drawing to a close, none of this was ever realised. Deep beneath a hill in the Worcestershire countryside, about 20 miles west of Birmingham, lie a series of hidden tunnels.