INTRODUCTION
Early september 2013 I've started a new topic called 'IGN-Quest for the reconstruction of the Dunkirk harbour'...
But due to the immense size of the nowadays Dunkirk harbour I quickly realised it would be impossible to fit all this information into one topic and still be able to have an overview of which location one's/I'm refering to.
So the past few days I've worked out a new approach to undertake my 'Quest for the reconstruction of the Dunkirk harbour';
- at first a new, straight forward, name
: 'The Dunkirk Project'- secondly, the creation of this topic: once past 'the introduction on the comprehension of the nowadays port', I will be using this topic only to post links to the most recent location/aerialphoto I'm studing. With each new link I will be posting on this topic I will also provide an updated version of the 'overall view map'. This map will alsways be the same and will be showing the entire area of the nowadays dunkirk harbour on which I will pinpoint the latest link. All information and overlays on the latest link (or previous ones which will also be indicated on this map) can thus be found by clicking the link.
- in a later fase - as research progresses - this topic will also be used to post updated overall views of the entire area based on new information.
This new approach can only work with your help;
So it would be much appreciated not to share any information on specific strongholds/locations in this topic but in the appropriate link/topic. Posts/comments on the harbour in its totality (the entire harbour), as also mentioned later in this introduction, are welcome and much appreciated. Thanks Ahead!
For a good comprehension of the location of certain strongholds (and the lack of strongholds in other locations) I guess it's necessary to have a closer look at the expantion and evolution of the harbour since the war up to the nowadays situation... therefore;
Introduction to the comprehension of the nowadays harbour
Although most of you know or can assume that this harbour has undergone large structural changes since the war, one (me included) cannot grasp the vastness of these expansions and their impact on the landscape without overlaying aerials of both eras. As the aerials on IGN.fr don't provide in an overall view of the (nowadays) harbour area, nore does it provide in aerials from 1944, I had to be content with aerials from 1949 (most German structures where still intact) and had to puzzle, twist and turn 20 aerials to come up with an accurate overall view of the area at time of the war (shortly after).
This first aerial is a nowadays view of the area we will be discussing in this topic (or the topic linked to a specific location on this map). Throughout this topic I will always be using this map to indicate the newest location and the appropriate link to the overlays of the newly marked location. Now it's still blank, by the end of my research/quest it should be full of white squares.
As I sometimes get bored quite quickly it is possible that I sideskip this anti-clockwise trajectory... the first link to a topic in my Quest is already an example of this behaviour
. Although we're not there yet (at topic 1), I already put it up here to show you the way I will be marking a new 'locationlink'... so this map will be updated every time, showing more and more white squares, the link will be posted underneath the newly updated map.
with my new desktopimage i've made...