I know it may sound to some like a silly question but i was thinking the other day about how people in the UK durring the war dug bomb cellars and shit and it occured to me that plenty of castles in england and scotland along with germany and austria for the axis later in the war could probably have served as decent bomb shelters to house large amounts of troops in.Obviously the fortications were by those days ancient but in the era of air bombardment kinda feels like its better then alot of the alternatives had at that time.Anyone ever think of it int he 1940s??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castle_Itterone of the last german battles of the war
>>16591685It's such a cool battle.
>>16591675>Obviously the fortications were by those days ancient but in the era of air bombardment kinda feels like its better then alot of the alternatives had at that time.No. Medieval castles have tall but relatively thin walls and so bombs wreck them.There is a reason why bomb shelters are either underground or in thick and squat concrete cubes.The only true engagement of note I know of would be the Battle of Monte Casino in1944 - and here most of the structur was reduced to rubble.
>>16591675Colditz Castle was used as a high security prison by Nazi Germany.Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in Normandy was the site of fighting between the 82nd Airborne and 265. Infanterie-Division during the efforts to cut off Cherbourg in June, 1944.Himmler had the SS purchase Wewelsburg castle and used it for their Knights of the Round Table LARPfests.Hiroshima Castle was used as the headquarters for the IJA's 2nd General Army and was completely destroyed in the atomic bombing and had to be rebuilt from scratch.Shuri Castle served as the Japanese headquarters on Okinawa although unlike what's portrayed in Call of Duty: World at War, the site was abandoned by the time American troops arrived to capture it.
>>16591675Yes.
>>16591675>Were Castles Ever Used in WWII?
Yeah, Castle Wolfenstein
>>16591675Fortress of Brest.Not to mention also that the bay to Leningrad was loaded with forts.
The network of tunnels beneath Dover Castle served as a barracks for soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars, became a headquarters and hospital during the Second World War, and were equipped to serve as a Regional Seat of Government in the 1960s in the event of nuclear war.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YxDU7I9s30
