StP Berck Süd H.K.B.
Batterie 10./H.K.A.R1245.
4 x R671 (two possibly under construction but none were finnished?).
1 x R612.
1 x R640.
1 x Leitstand/SK.
4 x Vf58c.
2 x Wellblech.
1 x R665.
1 x Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
4 x 10.5cm K29(p).
2 x 2cm Flak 38.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.17(t).
1 x 3.7cm Pak 35/36.
1 x Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsorersaule Fu.MO 3.
R640.
R670.
10.5cm K29(p).
StP Berck Süd H.K.B.
Phare de Berck.
Built in 1950 so possibly the wartime one was demolished?
Six embrasure turret that may have been the type used here.
R614 Leitstand/SK fire control post. Artilleries-Beobachtungsstand mit Panzerturm, zweigeschossig.
[Artillery observation post with tank tower, two storeys.]
Inside a Wellblech. There were two here.
Av. du Phare.
The road to the sea..
2cm flak 30.
3.7cm Pak 35/36.
5cm KwK L40.
Allied target photo XII/22..
Pte de Haute Blanc held a Coastwatcher radar as well an artillery battery and defence site.
Coastwatcher was the Allied code word for a Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsorersaule Fu.MO 3..
Allied intelligence drawing of a Coastwatcher radar.
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The area of the battery is to the left of Av. du Phare and to the right is the radar site.
Tobruk one of 4 that were here.
We found two.
Elevation of a Tobruk with the door down on the side of the ammunition/crew room ad steps up to the Tobruk gun position.
Plan with the gun position on the left and ammunition/crew room on the right.
A very good one or two man area defence bunker, a very hard target to see when attacking as it would have been set into the sand up to its lip and a trench system added to link it with other defences.
Tobruk.
Cable inlets to the Tobruk which means all the bunkers here may have been linked by a telephone system..
Either a small field telephone.
Or as in some Tobruk's that are attached to a larger bunker, a speaking tube.
Tobruk.
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A view over the battery site.
On a cold but sunny February day.
There was a beach defence casemate with a 7.5cm Field Kannon 17(t).
R612.
7.5cm F.K.17(t) would have looked like this one.
Vf2a.
A small concrete shelter with a passage entrance..
Plan of a Vf2a.
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Vf2a.
Field kitchen.
Vf2a.
Accommodation room on the left and the entrance passage on the right.
Vf2a showing the bunk arrangements inside.
Another Tobruk.
Tobruk.
This one has a lot of brick rubble that may have been used in the construction of a trench attaching the Tobruk to other defences..
Tobruk.
Tobruk.
The crest set into the wet concrete when this Tobruk was made was possibly a RAD or TODT organisation unit number.
Open ringstand Geschützstellung for a 10.5cm K29(p).
There was four ringstands for the four guns and they may have been started, the foundations for at least two R671 casemates.
10.5cm K29(p) the (p) means it was a captured Polish gun..
How it may have looked.
Plan of an R671 casemate.
Damaged ringstand (Geschützstellung).
R671 at Sella Plage.
Plan R671 casemate.
Michelmannstand.
There were about three here and I believe two broken ones remain.
Plan of a Michelmannstand.
This is a model giving an idea of what it looked like. A machine-gun on a heavy stand would be placed on the top, giving it a firm base to fire from..
Mg34 on a heavy mount.
Remains.
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Sailors' Calvary.
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