Talk:Blockhaus d'Éperlecques

Blockhouse
This structure is a blockhouse not a bunker. The difference is that a blockhouse is predominately an above ground structure while a bunker is predominately an underground structure. -- PBS (talk) 13:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Article name
Just a note to point out to those who might wish to change it that the article's name is taken from that of the museum, which is usually rendered in the original French (i.e. no translation) in English-language guidebooks. Prioryman (talk) 17:04, 5 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Guidebooks? Taken from that of the museum? If I understand your argument, the palace of Versailles should be renamed "Le Palais de Versailles" and read the it is a museum preserving a royal château too. Or if your prefer, one should also change the name of the Maginot line into "La ligne Maginot", the name of Fort Eben-Emael into "Le Fort d'Ében-Émael", which is also museum.


 * The bunker is mainly known as the Watten bunker in reference WWII books. See Google books
 * The use of the name "Blockhaus d'Eperlecques" is mainly used by guidebooks, not really WWII references. See Google books
 * IMHO it is rendered in French in guidebooks because the bunker is not easy to find and you need to follow road signs to get to it...


 * The official website uses, in his English section, the term "Blockhaus or Bunker of Eperlecques". What is wrong with " The Blockhaus d'Eperlecques (Bunker of Eperclecques) is a WWII bunker (...) turned into a private museum". The article is all about the WII site anyway.Alberto Fernandez Fernandez (talk) 07:58, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * OK, that's a good suggestion - thanks. Prioryman (talk) 08:03, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

A-4 or V-2 ?
The current mish-mash of references to A-4 and V-2 missiles in this article is ridiculous ? Are they the same thing ? If so, then use one name or the other consistently! I would suggest that V-2 is by far the more common English-language usage.Eregli bob (talk) 02:41, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem is that the missile wasn't called the V-2 until September 1944 - so referring to it as the "V-2" in 1942 and 1943 is anachronistic. I've amended the text to make this clearer. Prioryman (talk) 06:57, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Chronology
Someone posted a comment to the article: ""

As the sources say, the bombing of Watten and the other V-weapons sites was indeed ordered in May 1943, before Peenemunde. At the time the Allies didn't know that the sites in the Pas-de-Calais had anything to do with the V-weapons; the reason for choosing to attack them was summed up in Lord Cherwell's comment that "if it is worth the enemy's while to go to all the trouble of building them it would seem worth ours to destroy them". They realised subsequently that the sites were associated with the V-weapons and stepped up the attacks afterwards - but the attacks were not contingent to the decision to bomb Peenemunde. Prioryman (talk) 18:47, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

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Doorway to Launch Pads ??
I have recently been to the site and i am considerably puzzled at the reality of the concrete as against the plans. There is no visible indication that the concrete is any way removable in order to create a door or moveable entrance. I agree the site is incomplete but there is still no evidence for a doorway. As Galileo might argue 'how can it move'. nojoking 08-Oct-2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nojoking (talk • contribs) 19:20, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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