Monatsarchive: Oktober 2018

I can’t think of a better day to be looking at abandoned IRBM sites, can you? This is an R‑12 (NATO’s SS-4 Sandal) site.

Hitler gave a speech from this balcony March 23, 1939 welcoming Memel’s Germans back to the Reich, a day after Lithuania gave in to von Ribbentrop’s ultimatum.

The underground complex is huge, and reminded me of the Titan I complexes around Chico, which were built at the same time. Looking up at the underside of the silo cover. Looking down into the bottom of a silo. Lawrence … Weiterlesen →

a half hour down the road. In Belarus, Croatia, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, they are sandy ravines in coniferous forests.

I know what this means now. The morning is cool, overcast and gray. The soil is sandy and damp on the track through the woods.