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Old 20th Apr 2013, 22:24
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Laarbruch

If Carlsberg did postings....

Without a doubt, my favourite.

Re: the Ghost..I was CFI of the gliding club (TRGC) in the 70s and completed my PPL conversion in 78. At one point the GC was accommodated in the NW hangar (We kicked the rocks out) and I recall the half demolished bunker there. - I got partially inside once but bottled it --didn't feel right at all. In the woods directly opposite the hangar offices there were numerous WWII trenches - overgrown but still obvious. They led to the small escarpment overlooking the old Well Border post where they ran all the way along Quite a large complex. There were many reports of "a presence" in and around the hangar, which I understand continued in the HASs that were built there later.

As an aside, my late brother who was a NATO Fighter Tactics advisor to none other than Eric Hartmann on the Richthofen Wing (Yes.. really!) in the 60s and had to speak fluent German, told me that Laarbruch meant a break in the larches in old (High?) German.
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