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2 x Vf/MG
3 x Vf58c Tobruk's
4 x
VfIc116 Tobruk's
1x Vf2a
2 x R611 [under construction]
1 x R622 twin gruppe bunker.
1 x R625 Embrasured emplacement for a 7.5cm Pak 40.
1 x R634 A bunker with a six embrasured turret.
1 x R644 Emplacement with six embrasure turret.
2 x R653 (1) Embrasured emplacement for a 5cm KwK.
3 x R600b Open ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
3 x 5cm KwK L/42.
2 x 7.5cm F.K.235(b)
1 x 7.5cm Pak
Vf2a shelter.
R622 twin gruppe bunker.
R625 Embrasured emplacement for a 7.5cm Pak 40.
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Coming around the bend you notice the Vf/MG casemate on the left.
R634
R644
Plan.
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Air photo
I have marked what can be seen on this 1948 photo.
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Vf/MG casemate
A locally built covered machine gun position covering he left flank along the low cliffs.
How it may have looked with an Mg34.
Vf.
Mg34 in pieces.
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Vf/MG casemate.
Plan.
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Vf/MG casemate.
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Vf/MG casemate.
The machine gun covering the low cliffs.
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Vf/MG casemate trenches
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Vf/MG casemate trenches.
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The trenches.
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The trenches.
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The trenches, the Vf/MG and an R600b in the background all linked by trenches.
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The R600b ringstand for a 5cm KwK L/42 with trenches running into the Vf/MG.
R600b for a 5cm KwK L/42.
5cm KwK L/42.
Ammunition.
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R600b for a 5cm KwK L/42 circular gun base where the gun was mounted.
5cm KwK L/42.
Bolt to hold fast the gun.
A ring of reinforcement to hold a camouflage net.
5cm KwK L/42.
R600b for a 5cm L/42 showing the base where it was fitted to the concrete.
Ammunition.
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R600b for a 5cm KwK L/42. The view out to sea.
R600b for a 5cm KwK L/42 trench to the rear.
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Looking west.
Plan.
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R654 casemate for a 5cm KwK gun this type I have never seen inside and as usual it was sealed up.
R654 plan with gun room and periscope (red dot). L shaped room ammunition,
Boxes of 5cm ammunition.
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R654 casemate for a 5cm KwK gun rear entrance and gas lock.
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R654 casemate for a 5cm KwK gun close combat embrasure covering the rear entrance.
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R654 casemate for a 5cm KwK gun the close combat embrasure
It looks like a 57P8 steel embrasure.
Close combat machine gun covering the rear.
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R654 casemate for a 5cm KwK gun the embrasure of the main gun now bricked up.
How it may have looked.
How it may have looked inside the gun room.
Plan.
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R654 casemate for a 5cm KwK gun.
You can just see the sea and the gun would have covered an arc of fire about the same as this picture. A good job the house was not there in WW2.
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Garage.
I have no proof but this garage does look contemporary to the defended area. It may have stored a gun or a small vehicle.
3.7cm A/T gun.
Kubelwagen.
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Garage.
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Garage.
Plan.
A Tobruk either a Vf58c (x 3) or a VfIc116 (x 4).
Vf58c.
VfIc116
Vf58c.
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A Tobruk either a Vf58c (x 3) or a VfIc116 (x 4).
Plan.
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The second Vf/MG small casemate like the earlier on.
Mg34.
Mg34 tool box.
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R634 bunker at Wn07 Ouistreham, Pointe du Siége. A bunker with a six embrasured turret.
This gives an idea what an R634 with a 20P7 cloche looks like. I believe the bunker is still in place but we never found it.
Mg34.
20P7 six embrasured turret or cloche.
Machine gunner inside the dome, turret or cloche.
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