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4 x Barracks.
1 x Kablebrunnen (cable connection box).
Cable connections in Kablebrunnen.
Baraquement.
Baraquement.
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Living accommodation for the Flak, artillery and defence troops for the main batterie StP356.
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As far as we could see there were four barrack huts, made in concrete walls with a wooden roof. Large windows and not a protected building. It may and did hold back a bullet of .303 or American 30cal but a cannon shell or above I am sure would go right through.
RAF Typhoon.
USAAF Thunderbolt.
Allied inter service original document.
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Barracks.
Kablebrunnen.
A sunken kablebrunnen set into the corner of a field.
Plan.
Kablebrunnen not sunk into the ground..
Kablebrunnen.
The angled top or neck is designed with a round hole and a venturi so that air passing through the round hole creates an air current to draw cool air through the Kablebrunnen. Very clever idea.
Neck of the Kablebrunnen.
Kablebrunnen.
Kablebrunnen.
Opening the lid.
Kablebrunnen.
Two rows of steel ladders running down into the manhole. Note the red X and the closing bolt for the lid.
Bunker phones.
Kablebrunnen.
Looking down but full of water, I have seen pictures of a lot of the fittings still extant.
Plan.
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The concrete path the only one we found goes between the Kablebrunnen and the barracks.
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The first barrack building.
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A long barrack building with plenty of space for many bed.
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At both ends and on one wall the seems to be ablutions, that toilets, urinals, sinks and possibly showers?
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The last of the plaster on the walls.
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The flak position on the far hill.
2cm Flak.
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The second ablutions.
German armies toilet humour.
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The end wall.
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Details
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We believe these were where three shell cases hung and if hit by a steel bar. This would be either an 'Alarm' one sound or 'Food' another sound and I am trying to think of a third. Maybe 'General Call'.
The different sizes will make different sounds.
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Shutter hinges on the window frames.
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The second barracks.
Plan
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The second barracks.
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The second barracks. There would have been a wooden floor here. Now all removed.
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Nice large windows and doors here.
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Bullet damage.
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The third barracks.
Plan.
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Fourth barracks.
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Part of a strong wall.
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The drains are still working.
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Defended Norman wall. Eisenpfahel (iron stake) barbed wire posts.