StP Trig.Punkt
A batterie of four 15.5cm s.F.H.414 starting to be placed in casemates. Set back from the coast covering the beach defences.
15.5cm s.F.H.414
Ammunition came in two parts, case and shell.
It could be towed by a team of eight horses if a two-wheeled limber was placed under the trail and the barrel pulled back along the trail to move the centre of gravity towards the limber.
StP Trig.Punkt
StP Trig.Punkt.
Batterie 9./A.R. 149.
2 x R669 casemates.
4 x Geschützstellung (ringstands).
1 x R128 early type twin group bunker.
1 x 2cm Flak 30.
4 x 15.5cm s.F.H.414(f).
StP Trig.Punkt.
Rue Camille Delacroix
Looking west.
StP Trig.Punkt.
Rue Camille Delacroix
The StP is between these houses and there is a tar-macadam track all the way up.
2 x R669 casemates.
4 x Geschützstellung (ringstands).
1 x 2cm Flak 30.
StP Trig.Punkt.
This is all that can be seen in1946 with one R669 with possibly another marked by an ? so I am not sure if it may have been blown up or its overgrown, we did not see it. Also we completely missed the R128 twin group bunker a rare west wall type of bunker. Typical!!
1 x R128 twin group bunker with forward apron.
StP Trig.Punkt.
The path into the dunes.
The sand dunes before the war were open clear sand and since the war trees have been planted and grasses to stabilize the sand. Also all the houses along this part of Rue Camille Delacroix are nearly all post war.
StP Trig.Punkt.
Then it comes into view
You are going to see this red coat a lot here.
The battery at Stella Plage and this one would have given cross fire onto the beach.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 casement
Note the tarmacked roadway.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 casement
R669 casement.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
View from the rear.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Rear entrance.
How a set of rear doors would have looked if they had been fitted.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
This bunker has two quite small niches either side. This side may have had the extraction fan sucking foul air out of the bunker when it fires.
Plan of the foul air extraction.
15.5cm heavy field howitzer.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Pipes for the extractor fan to remove foul gases from the gun room.
Some information here
Extractor fan.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Vent from fan.
Extraction.
Rost 200mm vent.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Ammunition niches.
The square holes in the door frame were to set in the door frame and then a set of steel doors to close it off. They were either never fitted or were taken for scrap.
Casemate ammunition storage.
494P2 are the type of doors that may have been used?
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Gun room rear door.
R669 plan.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Gun room embrasure.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
This looks as though there were doors on the front.
A set of front doors on a casemate.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Command cable inlets.
Armoured cable.
Cable linesmen.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Crew room entrance.
On the side of the bunker is a small crew room.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate
Crew room entrance.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate Crew room
It is quite a large bunker with reinforced roof and quite thick walls.
Officer at a plotting table.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate Crew room
Nicely painted walls.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate Crew room.
The way out.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 Casemate Crew room
This looks as though there was a cabinet screwed to the wall?
StP Trig.Punkt.
R669 casemate
Rear of the casemate.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
The entrance can just be seen on its left side.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
The blast wall on the left side and entrance on the right..
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
The entrance into the bunker.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
By the entrance is a voice pipe to communicate with the inside of the bunker.
Sprachrohr mouthpiece voice tube.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
Continuing into the bunker with a long passage.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
Hinge for a 491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door).
491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door).
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
On the right a niche for a telephone to talk to the inside of the bunker. The niche in the far end was a close combat embrasure covering the entrance.
Relay box.
Close combat embrasure.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
The other side of the Close Combat Embrasure a very interesting type, it has two slots, one a commanders viewing slit and the second the embrasure to shoot through.
Close combat embrasure.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
Entrance which may have had a 434P01 door. This would only have been the top half as the sand is very deep here. You can see the two hinges for the top door.
434P01 door.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
Crew room with the close combat defence embrasure..
R128 twin group bunker.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
MKB Bunkertour plan of the R128 bunker..
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
MKB Bunkertour plan of the R128 bunker..
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
The crew room looking at the anti-gas pump fitted on the wall .
Hand operated anti-gas filter.
Anti-gas filters.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
Somewhere inside.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
The way out, the same way we came in as the other side is blocked up. Note the hinge on the right for the 491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door)..
491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door).
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
On the roof is a fitting for a periscope.
Bunker periscope plan.
Periscope bunker roof fitting.
Using a periscope in a bunker.
StP Trig.Punkt.
R128 twin group bunker
StP Trig.Punkt.