Elefant radar and bunker.

[SES (†)]

Hi,
Please see:
http://www.gyges.dk/Elefant.htm
bregds
SES

[SES (†)]

Hi Ln-Nerds,
Isn't about time we found the Elefant in vicinity of Varna?
Any help would be appreciated.
bregds
SES

[Mihai Pica]

Is there any approximate location known at least ? There are some 2-3 decent recce photos but only of the port / airfield area


Never mind, the location seems to be on a hill somewhere to the south of the port probably

[SES (†)]

Hi Mihai,
It is my understanding that it possibly was 10 km South of Varna.
bregds
SES

[Mihai Pica]

I just took a look over the sorties of the SAAF 60th Recce Squadron operations april-aug 44 and the closest they came to the area is Constanta which is 125 KM to the North so...weak chances, maybe something is left from other USAF recce groups, although keeping in mind that Varna was no target for the USAAF that's a dead end too.

http://ncap.org.uk/ holds over 1.000.000 Luftwaffe recce photos but it will probably take years for them to put them online

Best bet would be a local who is very knowledgeable, but that's hard to find I guess.

[SES (†)]

Hi Mihai,
I have checked NCAP Varna is not covered. Tried GE historical Photos, they do not go that far back. I have contacted a Bulgarian bunker-nerd via AHF and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
bregds
SES

[Mihai Pica]

Hi SES, just took a quick look over USAAF 5th PR Group, lots of targets in Bulgaria but nothing on the Black Sea Coast..usual suspects being Sofia, Vidin, Plovdiv and Ruse.

[SES (†)]

Hi Mihai
Thanks a lot. If I could Google in Bulgarian there might be a chance. There must be one or two Ln-Nerds in the area.
bregds
SES

[beaviso]

Hi Mihai
Thanks a lot. If I could Google in Bulgarian there might be a chance. There must be one or two Ln-Nerds in the area.
bregds
SES

www.google.bg
радар+Варна+1944


I've just finished a quick search of Bulgarian sites for the keyword combination of "radar", "German", "Varna", "Mammut", "1944", of course written in their language, and found nothing.

M.

[Mihai Pica]

You're welcome SES, I already googled last evening with several keywords by using google translate first, absolutely nothing came out.

We might be a bit lucky, I know a guy who grew up in Varna and now lives in another part of Bulgaria but he's a WW2 aircraft enthusiast, so unless he has some direct info hopefully he'll be able to direct me to someone else, I assume that the community over there is as small as in Romania eg. everyone knows everyone.

ATB, Mihai