Ubåtbunkeren "Bruno"

Bjoertvedt, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Completed
- 1944
Planning for a U-boat bunker at Bergen began under the German Organization Todt in late 1940, with construction starting in May 1942 at Nordrevågen in Laksevåg. Only seven of ten planned pens were finished — three wet, three dry, one for fuel — behind a roof up to six metres thick and walls up to four metres. Laksevåg, once a quiet rural district, became the most heavily bombed area in Norway as a result; an October 1944 Allied air raid alone killed 193 people, including 61 children at a nearby school. The bunker survived direct hits from Tallboy bombs in a follow-up raid in January 1945 and remains in use today by the Norwegian Navy for submarine repair and storage.
