Military things to see in Norway?

[Owen]

Christos,
German battleship Tirpitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tirpitz as scrap
Postwar the wreck was sold off and broken up in situ by a Norwegian company. Nearly the entire ship was cut up and hauled away. However, a large portion of the bow remains where it sank in 1944. Amongst other things, the ship's electrical generators were used for a temporary power station, supplying the fishing industry around Honningsvåg with electricity. Near the wreck-site there are artificial lakes along the shore—bomb craters from Tallboy bombs that missed their target. To this day, sections of Tirpitz armour plates are used by the Norwegian Road Authority ("Vegvesen") as temporary road surface material during roadwork.^[4] Additionally, a large chunk of the armour plating is held at the Royal Naval 'Explosion!' museum in Gosport, Hampshire.

Also here.
Lyngen and Narvik 2003 report

...the Tromsø Defence Museum/Tirpitz Museum....

Tromsø Forsvarsmuseum

The “Tirpitz” exhibition - a permanent exhibit of objects, text and images showing the western world´s largest and most powerful battleship

[Christos]

Ta....loved the reference to the Norwegians still using armor plate as roads....wonder if the Germans who built it envisaged what would happen to all their hard work.....and 'Tallboy' craters "still there.."....gee.....the area around that aprticular fijord must be pretty timeless, with the locals in a nice little enclave....what I wopuldn't give to live in a lovely cold place like Norway....(and all the 'blondies' too!).....paradise!

[Marco]

Hello Christos, I'll let you know when I get back ;-) I believe one of the coastal batteries (turned museum) uses one or more of the Tirpitz gun turrets.

Regards,

Marco

[the_historian]

A bit late, I know, but try this: http://bunkersite.com/

[Kjaersgaard]

Originally Posted by the_historian

A bit late, I know, but try this: http://bunkersite.com/

Cheers for finding that site, I wasn't aware of that homepage until now

Earlier this year I visited a restaured bunkercomplex in Hanstholm, Denmark which was very impressive and it is similiar to the battery in Kristiansand, Norway. If you get the chance you should check it out.
Kristiansand Kanonmusem?

[the_historian]

Thanks for the Kristiansand website too.

[Christos]

Yes, that was a nice aite....ta....

Norway is not on my list of Euro battlefields to visit...perhaps it should be....

[siggihall]

Hi.

How far north doo you want too search? Doo you need any pictures from Iceland? We have some graves/headstones with people serving in Iceland in ww2.

[siggihall]

Originally Posted by spidge

I was only teasing and hoping you were going south and not north!

I would welcome those two others you have .

Chapman (514sq RAF) is the only RAAF burial at Hindeloopen.

Hogan (460sq RAAF) is one of 34 RAAF burials at Jonkerbos and I don't have any of them, so this would be a great start.

Many of them were buried there after actions in May & June 1943 with another grouping just pre and post D-Day.

The RAAF boys are buried or memorialised in 65 countries in WW2. so keep me in mind if you know anybody travelling.

Thanks again and have a great tour.


Geoff

Hi.

How far north doo you want too search? Doo you need any pictures from Iceland? We have some graves/headstones with people serving in Iceland in ww2.