| John, Noel and Malcolm stayed at the campsite for most of Thursday, packing up ready to move sites to Belgium. They did however go out briefly to visit a local Military Cemetary not far from the site. Lynne and I took the Jeep out again to La Coupole, another A4 Rocket launching site. This concrete bunker and tunnel system was built into a chalk hillside, and several of the tunnels are still incomplete, and show the process of tunneling, and lining the openings with concrete. | |||
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Inside the entrance is a rare piloted V1 Flying Bomb, which were flight tested, but never used operationally. A plan elsewhere in the museum shows the full scale of the complex of tunnels, which like Eperlecques, was built by slave labour but never used. A complete A4 rocket is on display along with one of the rocket engines. A small scale animated model showed the arrival of the rockets by train, final assembly and movement from the bunker to the launch pad just outside. |
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| One part of the museum follows the development of the A4 rocket by the Americans and Russians into the space program, and a series of models show the A4 Rocket to scale with the Mercury, Soyouz, Zemiorka and Saturn V rockets amongst others. | |||
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| After leaving La Coupole, Lynne and I went to Boulogne for the rest of the day before returning to the campsite having covered another 99 miles. We spent the rest of the evening packing up most of our camping gear ready for the following morning. | |||