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Jan 22, 2021
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In the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, close to the commune of Helfaut and Wizernes, lies a large Nazi bunker built during the Second World War. The most prominent feature of this bunker complex is an immense concrete dome, from which the complex derives its name La Coupole, or “The Dome” in English. La Couple, codenamed “Bauvohaben 21”, was built 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.
The Helfaut-Wizernes Dome. Photo:
The V-2 was a revolutionary weapon. It was the world s first long-range guided ballistic missile powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine. The rocket was developed as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities, although the V-2 program had begun in 1936, well before the war started. Standing 14 meters tall, the 12.5-ton rocket was fueled primari