Most of you know that Jeff is a pretty big history buff - so he has been researching old WWII sites to see if anything is left to go explore. This site we came across is just right down the road from our post Katterbach (where we are stationed). Katterbach started life as a Nazi Airfield - the attacks on Poland were flown out of here. So the following photos are of a site that was used to zero in the guns mounted on the aircraft. They built up these big berms with a huge slab of concrete at the end and shot between berms into the concrete.
This was a hole at the end of the berm right before the concrete slab - Jeff thinks it was were they could go under there and a hole in the roof allowed a target to be raised up to site the gun in on.
Another shot of the targeting hole.
Liv & Wolf desending into the hole.
The hole - filled with water and ucky stuff. You can see the hole in the top.
This is taken from the top of the berm. They are looking at the hole that the targets were raised out of.
This photo you can see what remains of the long berms.
Sophie standing on top of a berm.
Livvy probing for something. The kids liken it to a treasure hunt and Liv thought there had to be buried treasure! It is a really cool way to teach the kids history - they ask some interesting questions for sure! Totally beats a museum :)
This the mound at the end of the berm - that dark line you see is actually a huge slab of concrete.
This pile of concrete that was probably a inclosure of some kind, long ago collapsed - it was beside the berms. Not sure was it was, but by the thickness of the concrete is was pretty substantial.
You could get under the collasped concrete. - filled with water and more ucky stuff.
This is the hole on the other side of the collapsed structure.
The back of the collapsed stucture.
Another shot of the back.
Take a photo of me mom!
This was the geocache that was there. Livvy thought this was the coolest thing in the world and can't wait to find more!
This tree was growing out of the side of the collasped inclosure. That flat area behind Livvy was a huge piece of collapsed concrete - most likely the roof.
This was a hole at the end of the berm right before the concrete slab - Jeff thinks it was were they could go under there and a hole in the roof allowed a target to be raised up to site the gun in on.
Liv & Wolf desending into the hole.
The hole - filled with water and ucky stuff. You can see the hole in the top.
This is taken from the top of the berm. They are looking at the hole that the targets were raised out of. 
Sophie standing on top of a berm.
Livvy probing for something. The kids liken it to a treasure hunt and Liv thought there had to be buried treasure! It is a really cool way to teach the kids history - they ask some interesting questions for sure! Totally beats a museum :)
This the mound at the end of the berm - that dark line you see is actually a huge slab of concrete.
You could get under the collasped concrete. - filled with water and more ucky stuff.
The back of the collapsed stucture.
Another shot of the back.
This was the geocache that was there. Livvy thought this was the coolest thing in the world and can't wait to find more!
This tree was growing out of the side of the collasped inclosure. That flat area behind Livvy was a huge piece of collapsed concrete - most likely the roof. 
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Like your new header Sarah. Wish I knew how to do that.
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