La Coupole

Local nameLa Coupole
LocationHelfaut

La Coupole, also known as the Coupole d'Helfaut-Wizernes and originally codenamed Bauvorhaben 21 or Schotterwerk Nordwest, is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres from Saint-Omer, and some 14.4 kilometers south-southeast from the less developed Blockhaus d'Eperlecques V-2 launch installation in the same area. It was built by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944 to serve as a launch base for V-2 rockets directed against London and southern England, and is the earliest known precursor to modern underground missile silos still in existence.

Constructed in the side of a disused chalk quarry, the most prominent feature of the complex is an immense concrete dome, to which its modern name refers. It was built above a network of tunnels housing storage areas, launch facilities and crew quarters.

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Royal Air Force Bomber… @ Devon S A (Flt Lt), Royal Air Force official photographer

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Coupole

Official Website https://www.lacoupole-france.com/

Phone +33 3 21 12 27 27

Address (Unnamed Road), 62570, France

Coordinates 50°42'19.099" N 2°14'35.969" E

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