Tuesday, December 14, 2010

British WW2 Pillbox in Kuantan (part 5)

The Kuantan Airbase pillbox no 5 is situated near the passenger terminal
by the side of the runway not far from a watch tower.
I think there should be a few more around the side fences of the airbase
they are actually build after the war.



View through the fence beside the Kuantan Airport passenger terminal.



View Kuantan Airbase pillbox no 5 in a larger map

This Balok Pillbox no 2 have been know to many but not me until
another pillbox enthusiast http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaafar_amil/ tip me.









It is behind this yet to be open resort.





View Balok Pillbox no 2 in a larger map

UPDATES ON KUANTAN WW2 PILLBOXES

The Kampung Sungai Belat Pillbox
after some riverbank cleaning works.





The Permatang Badak Pillbox
almost got into the way of a road expansion,
but for how long.
Maybe it should be shifted somewhere safer
to a park or memorial for WW2 relics?


links, http://mhg.mymalaya.com/

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5 comments:

  1. gbeejippDecember 14, 2010 at 8:50 AM

    Balok Pillbox no 2 seems to be largely ignored and rundown.

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  2. CaDLyNNDecember 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM

    owh..tak pernah smpi kt sini even pernah sklh kt kuantan and kerja kt gebeng dulu :)

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  3. papabearDecember 14, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    i saw one of these in PD by the beach...

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  4. CheqnaDecember 14, 2010 at 3:05 PM

    Hi Thomas,

    its not pill-boxes as I first thot..hehe..

    I never bother about this but reading ur post, I did a little search n found this German's individual pillbox :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kugelbunker.jpg

    nice!

    :-)

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  5. Kamsiah yusoffDecember 15, 2010 at 6:49 AM

    sayangnya tempat yg mempunyai nilai sejarah ,terbiar mcm tu ja kan...

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