StP Ruine.
Part 1 a battery of four 10cm le.F.H.14/19(t) guns in R669 casemates and accommodation tunnels.
Part 2 several large bunkers.
This is Part 2.
10cm le.F.H.14/19(t) guns.
R669 casemates.
StP Ruine.
Looking up the hill.
Moving on from Part 1 looking up the hill towards an Abri and an R119 Bunker.
Plan.
Along the hedge row.
Screw pickets still holding the barbed wire fence up.
Barbed wire entanglement.
Rubble and bits.
Plan
Abri remains.
Abri.
Side walls have all gone just the end walls remain and roof remain.
More bits and pieces and the odd railway line.
Another view of the Abri.
The view over the hill.
Somewhere here was/is a tunnel leading from around here under the hill to a Tobruk lookout on the other side of the hill.
The red line is the tunnel.
Plan of the tunnel leading to a Tobruk.
R119 Battery Commanders Bunker.
On the top of the battery commanders bunker.
R119Battery Commanders Bunker.
Another view over the top looking towards the Tobruk.
This version has a Tobruk added.
Tobruk.
Tobruk machine gun.
Camouflage.
Close combat window covering the rear entrances.
A gunner would stand inside covering the entrances with a machine gun.
Plan of the R119.
Close combat embrasure.
Note the pathway laid along the side of the bunker.
Steps up to the attached Tobruk.
As a bunker the R119's plan does not have a Tobruk. But here a Tobruk was added.
Plan of the R119.
Inside the Tobruk.
Sprachrohr-mouthpeice speaking tube connecting the Tobruk with another inside the bunker.
Sprachrohr-mouthpeice.
The steps back to the two entrances.
The right hand side entrance.
491p Gittertür - gate.
491p Gittertür.
Heading into the bunker entrance.
The square hole is the close combat embrasure with a machine gun protecting it. The oval hole I think was a defensive tube so a grenade could be rolled down it to kill an attackers?
The door is a
434P01 heavy steel door.
Plan of the R119.
434P01 door
Looking through to the second entrance.
Plan of the R119.
Radio aerial fitting.
Radios were actually in short supply by early 1944 so many bunkers did not have aerials in place. They used their underground telephone cables.
Aerial plan.
Gas lock entrance.
Plan of the R119.
Crew room.
As this was a Battery Commanders Bunker I don't think this is a living and sleeping room?
Plan of the R119.
Crew room looking in to: -
Close combat room covering the second entrance.
Store.
Observation - periscope room.
Plan of the R119.
Filtration and close combat room.
Plan of the R119.
Gaz danger connection with stucco Herous take space filter insert.
Well thats a bad translation.
Plan of the R119.
Anti gas filter pump.
Anti gas filters.
Store room.
The door looks to be a thin steel door and a small frame.
Plan of the R119.
19P7 door which may have been used here.
Stores.
Observation/periscope room.
Here through the periscope you would be able to see 360degrees around the top of the bunker and could see as far as the sea.
The view they could see.
Periscope in action.
This is a blanking plug.
The idea of this plug is to keep the periscope tube clear from debris. I think there was no periscope ever in here though but it was ready for one..
Plan of the R119.
Periscope outside on the roof would have looked like.
Inside the periscope room.
Looking towards the door a 434P01 a double door with four hinges and heavy steel plates.
Plan of the R119.
434P01 door.
434P01 door.
Work room.
I think this was the work room as it has the crew room straight in front, to the right may be a computing room and behind the commanders and wireless room. The heart of the bunker.
Plan of the R119.
Work room.
Just showing the detail of this part of the room.
Überdruckventil - Pressure relief valve.
Überdruckventil - Pressure relief valve.
This could be a the chart room.
Plan of the R119.
Chart room.
Nice drain in the centre, you do not normally see drains in several rooms of a bunker, most are only in the gas lock of the bunker.
Plan of the R119.
Plan of a sinkkasten.
A metal plate cover with a zinc pot to collect the water.
Chart room.
A 26P8 sliding armoured door to the communications room.
Plan of the R119.
26P8 sliding door.
Communications room.
Walls covered in asbestos sheets with a drain in the centre. On the right side is the cable inlets
Plan of the R119.
Telephone communications.
Communications cables.
Plan of the R119.
One of the floors..
Thermoplastic tiles on the floor and part of the clean filtered air pipes.
Communications room.
The small square holes in the walls are to pass paper messages through from one office to another.
Looking at the plan you can see several of these slots in the walls.
Wireless room, Funkraum.
Through the square on the left wall is the commanders room and the door in front to the main close combat room.
Plan of the R119.
Funkraum.
Bunker phone.
Passage between the Funkraum and the close combat room.
Plan of the R119.
Close combat room.
This room had a machine gun covering the rear entrances to the bunker.
Plan of the R119.
Close combat with the sliding steel shutter closed off.
View through the close combat embrasure.
As can be seen this covers both the rear doors and the Tobruk rear entrance.
Plan of the R119.
This is the Close Combat Embrasure covering the entrance..
A 483P2 embrasure.
Plan of the R119.
Often this room was used as a store room, in an R119 the close combat room is very large.
A 422P01 type close combat embrasure.
This one is covering the main entrance from the crew room.
Plan of the R119.
A 422P01.
Looking along the gas lock.
This is the passage with an entrance at both ends.
Plan of the R119.
Way out.
The hinge for a Gittertür gate. The niche could be for a communicating speaking tube.
Plan of the R119.
Gate on a bunker.
Sprachrohr-mouthpeice.
Red arrow - the site of the R119 bunker.
Yellow arrow - the tunnel.
Red arrow - the site of the R119.
Yellow arrow - the tunnel and Tobruk lookout.
The white line looks like the trace of the tunnel.
These were cut and cover. A trench is dug and then a roof placed over it and then covered in earth.
something here
Screw pickets in the hedgerow.
A WW1 screw picket.
something here
A WW1 French screw picket upside down. The screw is now broken in half.
R658, Abri & a cistern.
I think this maybe the site of an R658 water cistern. It may have been remove.
Plan.
R658 water supply bunker. There was a pump on the left and a water reservoir on the right.
A water reservoir at Wn17 'Hillman' Colleville-su-Orne.
5cm KWK field position.
This looks as though it was the site of a 5cm KwK gun in a field position. Usually these guns are in ringstands or R667 casemates.
Plan.
5cm KwK gun in a field position.
The foundations of a 5cm KwK gun in a field position.
Now back across the track and out onto the hill side.
The views are very extensive over the countryside.
This is the hill side viewed from across the valley.
You can see the spoil heaps of earth from when the bunkers were being built. There seems to be more excavating than actual bunkers so more may have been planned.
The next set of bunkers an : -
1 x R609 battalion & regimental headquarters.
2 x R622 twin group bunker.
1 x R119 battery commanders bunker.
These are all there but hard to access.
There may be another R622 around here somewhere?
R609 Battalion and Regimental head quarters.
This is a large double bunker with (clockwise) : -
Top - Commander,Adjutant, Comms, Chart, Funk, Work, with two gas locks & two close combats.
Bottom - Non Comms, Crew, Officers, toilets, showers, fuel, heading?, ventilation.
R609 bottom.
R609 top.
Top - Work room or operations room.
Bottom - Crew quarters.
R609 Battalion and Regimental head quarters.
Tobruk defence and there was a periscope which would look all over the valley below.
R609 the second entrance.
Plan R609.
R609 the second entrance.
Note the slots for radio (funk) aerials and it looks as though they were not fitted.
Plan R609.
R609
The spoil heap's spilled out over the slope.
Spoil heaps.
Railway line.
I think there was a narrow gauge railway that climbed up the hill side to this bunker as from an air photo there looks to be the remains of a line.
Small local narrow gauge railway.
I believe its a periscope tube.
The periscope fits inside it.
A different type of periscope fitting.
Bunker periscope inside.
A view to the beach.
R119 Battery Commanders bunker.
This is the same inside as the R119 we visited earlier. We did not even try and enter as it was very overgrown.
The entrance on the left is a cut and cover tunnel which attaches this bunker to the R622 some way behind.
The R119 on the left and the R622 on the right connected by a cut and cover trench.
R119 the first entrance and close combat embrasure.
Plan R119.
R119
Another view down to the second entrance.
Plan R119.
The spoil heaps of earth in front.
Yellow square - spoil heap of the R119.
Red square - the two water reservoirs.
The woodland where the trench runs.
Tunnel.
R622 twin group shelter.
A 622 twin group shelter is what it says a shelter for two groups of ten men. These could have been the defence troops for the head quarters.
Plan of an R622 twin group shelter.
Almost one group.
The other end of the tunnel.
The tunnel.
R622.
Food from a field kitchen.
R622 number 2.
The second R622 sitting out in the open.
R622 plan.
R622.
All that you can see now.
The walk back.