Ca12 Onival.
1 x Peilstand/Vf.
1 x R600b.
2 x Schnabelstand.
1 x 7.5cm Pak 97/38.
1 x 5cm KwK 38.
R600b fir the 5cm KwK 38.
Schnabelstand.
7.5cm Pak 97/38.
Ca12 Onival.
Ca12 Onival.
The beach running up to Cayeux and the Somme estuary.
Teller mine on a tree trunk.
More beach defences.
Rommel and his Asparagus.
Ca12 Onival.
The first Schnabelstand set into the side of the road just outside Onival.
Schnabelstand could also be used as a machine gun pillbox.
Ca12 Onival.
This 1947 photo shows the two Schnabelstand (red squares) and linking trenches gradually being filled in. It looks as though there was a sort of command area set back up the slope (yellow square) where there look to be some bunkers with trenches connecting them. I cannot see where the other bunkers and guns were laid out.
Ca12 Onival.
Some bits and pieces in the field behind the first Schnabelstand. It may be the foundations of a dismantled house?
There looks as though there was a house there?
The first Schnabelstand.
There was a trench system running along this bank as a defence and so troops could move from position to position.
An elevation plan of a Schnabelstand.
Observation.
The first Schnabelstand.
The front sticking out of the bank and a good view of the camouflage, the bunker would be cast with flat concrete face and a mix of asbestos mixed with concrete would be daubed on to create camouflage breaking up its clean lines.
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The first Schnabelstand.
The trench and rear entrance tunnel to the bunker.
The first Schnabelstand.
Trench leading into the bunker.
The first Schnabelstand.
Looking into the main room.
The first Schnabelstand.
The viewing slit with the centre section has been broken away for some reason.
The first Schnabelstand.
The doorway into the control room.
The first Schnabelstand.
Looking back into the main room.
The first Schnabelstand.
The square holes in the walls are for wooden blocks to be set into them (we would now call the a sort of Raul Plug) and maybe a wall covering in wood nailed to them making it a warmer and more homely place.
The first Schnabelstand.
Steps up to the trench exit.
The first Schnabelstand.
View from above.
Eisenpfahel.
The German barbed wire post designed as a picket post to hold barbed wire, the square piece is a Swastika symbol.
Eisenpfahel.
The first Schnabelstand.
Some additional details will go here
The second Schnabelstand.
View from behind.
Troops camping.
The second Schnabelstand.
The entrance.
The second Schnabelstand.
The entrance.
The second Schnabelstand.
Main room.
The second Schnabelstand.
Viewing room. I have tried with Photoshop to add the tree photos together.
The second Schnabelstand.
The door with several niches that may have been to hold battery or Acetylene lamps.
Battery lamp.
Acetylene lamp.
Eisenpfahel.
Onival on a Bright February.
© 2013 Richard Drew