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Hidden Wartime Bunker Under Paris Gare de l’Est
(All images: Boreally.org. Secret WW2 bunker beneath Gare de l’Est in Paris) Every year, almost 34 million passengers hurry along the crowded concourse of Paris Gare de l’Est railway station, in the...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Points Skyward Amid a Ukrainian Housing Estate
(Image: Roman Naumov. A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 points skyward) Just as you might find decommissioned planes, tanks and helicopters displayed outside branches of the American Legion, so too are...
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The Historic Ruins of Fort Campbell, Malta
(Image: Ploync. The historic ruins of Fort Campbell, Malta) The enigmatic ruins of Fort Campbell stand guard over the Maltese coastline, straddling the Selmun peninsula with commanding views over both...
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Preserve “Pinky”: Campaign to Save Tornado GR4 ZG750
(Image: Steve Tron). Panavia Tornado GR4 ZG750 aka “Pinky”) With ever more Tornado GR4 airframes going out of service and being disposed of via RTP (reduced to produce, or spares reclamation and...
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A-4 Skyhawk 147675 to be Restored in Blue Angels Colours
(Image: @planedailymag. Forward fuselage of A-4L Skyhawk 147675) The Spirit of Flight Center in Erie, Colorado contains a treasure trove of varied and unique exhibits spanning the history of US...
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Project Habakkuk: The Wartime Plan to Build Ships From Ice
(Image: Royal Navy. Sea Hurricane fighters aboard escort carrier (D14) HMS Avenger) World War Two was a desperate time, and desperate times call for desperate measures. There were a whole host of...
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Retired Saab Combat Jets Mounted by E4 Road, Sweden
(Image: Alan Wilson. Retired Saab Draken and Viggen jets by E4 road, Sweden) It’s amazing how much history lies alongside the roads and highways of the world. This pair of decommissioned fighter jets...
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Tornado ZA412: Special ‘Dam Busters’ Tail Fin Preserved at RAF Scampton
(Image: @PlaneDailyMag. Special 617 Squadron ‘Dam Busters’ tail fin from Tornado ZA412) Back in 2013, Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA412 (fleet number 017) was a staple of the airshow circuit, suitably adorned...
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McDonnell F4H-1F 143388, the Oldest Surviving F-4A Phantom, Stored at...
(Image: Mark Carlisle. F4H-1F BuNo. 143388, the oldest surviving Phantom F-4A) I’ve often wondered what became of many of the earliest McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs, the A models, of which just 45...
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Hunters Point: Abandoned San Francisco Naval Shipyard Building
(Image: Dllu. Abandoned building at former San Francisco Naval Shipyard) The San Francisco Naval Shipyard, which occupied 638 acres of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast of the city, was...
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SS Atlantus: New Jersey’s Concrete Shipwreck
(Image: © Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons. Wreck of the concrete ship SS Atlantus) Aground off the coast of Cape May, New Jersey, a hulking shipwreck serves as a lasting reminder of perhaps one of the...
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Abandoned Fort Ord: Once “America’s Most Beautiful Army Base”
(Image: USAAC. The now largely abandoned Fort Ord military base in 1941) Atlas Obscura called it “America’s most beautiful Army base”, and it’s easy to see why. Fort Ord was established in 1917 and...
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Abandoned Mount Umunhum Cube (Defunct CA Radar Base Opens to Public)
(Image: Jason Hickey. The abandoned Mount Umunhum Cube near ) As we move towards the third decade of the 21st century, the West Coast of the Continental United States seems a world away from the...
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Forgotten Wartime Tank Traps in Embleton Bay, Northumberland
(Images: Urban Ghosts. Abandoned WW2 tank traps in Embleton Bay) There are few stretches of English coast more tranquil than the one that extends south from the isolated fishing village of Low Newton...
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Freda’s Grave on Cannock Chase
(Image: Frank Smith. Faithful dog Freda’s grave on Cannock Chase) In a peaceful corner of Cannock Chase, not far from Coppice Hill, lies the grave of a working dog named Freda, who died in 1918. Freda...
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A Forgotten V-1 Flying Bomb Launch Site in Rhineland-Palatinate
(Image: Spielvogel. Abandoned V-1 launch site in Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate) They may look like any other peaceful woodland ruins of days gone by. But these seemingly-anonymous concrete...
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Lightning F.53 ZF580 at Newquay Airport for Restoration
(Image: Anthony Parkes. Lightning ZF580 while on display at Samlesbury Aerodrome) For more than 20 years, from 1990 to 2013, English Electric Lightning F.53 ZF580 had pride of place on the main gate...
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Visit: U-534: Preserved Wreck of a German WW2 Submarine
(Image: Paul Adams. U-534 while stored at Birkenhead Docks) Only a handful of World War Two German submarines survive today and U-534 makes for a rare attraction, preserved in sections at the Woodside...
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Derelict Royal Observer Corps Orlit B Post (Guist, Norfolk)
(Image: Evelyn Simak. Disused Royal Observer Corps Orlit B Monitoring Post) We’ve featured several abandoned Royal Observer Corps installations on Urban Ghosts to date, such as the ruined ROC...
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The ‘Beaulieu Letters’: Echoes of Hampshire’s Great War Past
(Image: Mike Searle. The Beaulieu letters at East Boldre) Since the end of the 1950s, the old wartime fighter base RAF Beaulieu has steadily returned to nature, its flat expanse – now administered by...
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