Are German planes still in underground production facilitys?

[davidwomacks]

I was looking at this and it made me think if their are still planes in a partially finished state in those factories I know they built 262's underground as well.

http://www.indianamilitary.org/FreemanA ... 1/0494.htm

[Thomas Reilly]

It is quite possible. There may have been some factories which were never discovered by the Allies at the end of the war, then again maybe not.

[JDK]

No. Germany isn't the kind of place where such things would have been overlooked or forgotten for the last 69 years.

Exceptions - displays showing slave-labour in such locations including aircraft, and Indiana Jones type films.

Regards,

[Thomas Reilly]

There has been some talk of some underground factories being located under residential areas. I have my doubts, but then again nothing is impossible.

[Milmart Militaria]

Never say never

These boats were virtually missing until 1985 when the boats were discovered through research by Jak P Mallmann-Showell, Wolfgang Hirschfeld and Walter Cloots in the mostly demolished Elbe II U-boat bunker in Hamburg.The Elbe II bunker is located on the southern bank of the Elbe river at the Vulkanhafen. This area is within the Freeport of Hamburg and to access it you should have to present your passport.

http://www.uboat.net/history/hamburg_elbe2.htm

In 2007 the incredibly intact Fink II bunker was rediscovered and landscaped when extending a runway for Airbus

http://www.uboat.net/gallery/index.html?gallery=Fink-2

[Mike]

Weren't there some V-1 parts recovered from one of these facilities not long back?

[Milmart Militaria]

Airborne Garage in Holland reported a tunnel in Germany being opened up in 2011 with vehicles, equipment etc

A German guy recently bought an old bunker complex for project development, was digging around a bit and found a few trucks, 324 helmets and more stuff. More to come...

http://panzermaus.blogspot.com.au/searc ... nd%20Found

[JDK]

Careful on terms. The underground aircraft production facilities were few in number, large and documented, as well as delt with in 1945.

They were not a bunker or a store.

There will be aircraft parts recovered in the future. There won't be an aircraft assembly line ~ with multiple aircraft part-completed ~ revealed.

Regards,

[Mike]

I think this is the place I was thinking of, and was the source for the parts incorporated into the V-2 recently built up for Paul Allen

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/mittelwerk.htm

[gary1954]

Schwäbisch Hall Army Air Field, I was there a couple of times and my friend Jose showed me some ventilation stacks rising from the ground in a wooded area at measured intervals. He said there was an underground facility there but it was "Off Limits". A few years later the base was upgrading their POL point and unearthed a five hundred pounder from World War Two. the entire post was evacuated for it's "disposal".

[Pat Carry]

One never knows what remains to be discovered in the attics of the world!

[Milmart Militaria]

Great link that was posted, found this while trawling it

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/thuringen.htm

Beginning in 1947, the Soviets blew up the concrete bunkers and assembly buildings, and also the entrances to most of the tunnels, including destruction of the concrete runway on the hilltop. However, the concrete buildings had reinforced walls some 10 feet thick, so in many cases, the explosions only collapsed the roofs.

Story from 2010

Investigators probing a giant mudslide in Germany that killed three people are using old RAF maps to locate a top secret Nazi underground factory that may have triggered the disaster.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ctory.html

Richard / Rabštejn Underground Factory

http://www.czech.cz/en/Discover-CZ/Fact ... -World-War

Another good site as well
http://www.reimahg.de

[JohnB]

Sure they exist, after all there are still thousands of B-17s and 24s parked at RFC depots....or so I was told.

[John Dupre]

What about the famous former Luftwaffe airfield in Germany used by the US Army for many years? I have heard first hand that it was known there were underground facilities that were off limits due to unexploded and unmarked demolition charges. Wasn't a British magazine trying to sponsor an investigation there a few years ago? Whether there is anything left is debatable when I first heard the story the rumor was enterprising GIs had investigated and could see propeller tips and rudder tips rising out of standing water.

[Spook498]

I recently heard a story from a guy who claims to have been stationed at Giebelstadt (or Grafenwohr, I dont remember which) who made a claim going back to the mid 80s. The base was known to have had some underground areas used during WWII. At whichever base he had been stationed, there was a sinkhole that appeared, so some guys climbed down to see what the cause was. It was a tunnel that inside had 10 Tiger tanks, buttoned up with plates welded over the openings to prevent dirt from getting in, sitting there waiting. He said that by the following week, the area had been opened up, the tanks removed, and the area back filled with dirt. While entirely possible, I have my doubts about the man and his credibility.

However, there is still UXO from the Allies found in Germany on a weekly basis. The last I heard about was a bomb found and detonated in Leipzig last week.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -WWII.html