How much explosive was used during the demolition of German fortifications in Helgoland?

Answer 1

My name is Frank Covey. I was a Sergeant Photographer with British Armys Army Film & Photographic Unit. I was on a British warship thirteen miles from Helgoland when it was detonated. The smoke and debris went up at least thirty thousand feet, and concrete blocks as large as houses were blown an estimated five miles. Before the demolition, I went on the island and filmed the hundreds and thousands of war time shells, bombs and mines collected from the battlefields . I met no person who could estimate the actual amount of munitions that were stacked in the U-Boat pens and tunnels on the Island. Interestingly, a Glass of water was placed on wooden beams in a church in the town of Luneburg, Westfalia. A few seconds after the explosion ( One o,clock midday ) the water spilled over the rim of the glass. I think Luneburg is about 90 miles from Helgoland. The BBC sends a series of sound beeps at one o,clock, it was on the last beep that the detonation was made. Helgoland was once the stronghold of a Viking God known as "The enlightened one," which is why they never attacked it. They worshipped the cult of SIN which came out of UR in the Chaldees in Northwest Paddam Aram Mesopotamia where Abraham (Ebrahim Khalil Abdurruman) lived 2000 BC. It is now subject to Pinneberg in Schleswig Holstein that in turn is ruled over from Hamburg. Pinneberg rests on the identical rock strata that Helgoland is made of! Britain traded Helgoland for the Gold coast and Helgoland now survives on the sale of duty/tax free Cigarettes and Alcohol. But you can't get a ferry there in the winter months because its in the North Sea (a bit rough)!