Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
St Remy des Landes Plage a most lovely place when the sun is out and the sea is blue. When not, its a cold wind off the Atlantic Ocean charging in to an open beach and sand dunes. For a soldier, it was cold, wet and very boring. Always hungry, cold and ordered out onto the beach to lay obstacles. As not only would they be on their guard, they were totally on their own. No troops to the north and a river estuary to the south. They would have to lay mines, beach defences, barbed wire and dig trenches. Stay worm, cook food and try and sleep. When the Americans landed at Utah beach, they were now facing the wrong direction. As the Americans started to cross the peninsular, it was cut off a few kilometres north at Barnaville-Carteret & Portbail. That left these troops no option but move from their trenches and out with the field companies and fight the Americans in a hard slog, retreating all the time. Being harassed by Jabos (fighter bombers). Many would have died, but some may just have made it home.
What would he have been looking for. There was no way the Allies were going to land there.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Beautiful but very open to the elements.
The fight south.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Plan
A small section of soldiers with a Corporal in charge.
3 x Vf8 Tobruk's + pos. a fourth.
2 x Unterstands
Trench system.
On guard.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
The river estuary, Havre de Surville.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Trench or a small gun position.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 1 was on the top of the sand dunes but due to the changing weather and tides, they have been uncovered.
Plan.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 1
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Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 1
Beach defences.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 2
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Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 2
Vf8 Tobruk.
Inside design.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 3
Plan.
How they were set into the ground and a trench to the entrance.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 3
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 3
MG34 mounting to sit in the ring of the Tobruk.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
I think this is the type. A small crew room and a ring for a machine gun.
The ring to fit a machine gun on.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Tobruk 3
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Unterstand.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Unterstand, you can see the chimney vet running out of the rear wall.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Unterstand, on the floor there is a small depression where the stove once sat.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
The stove, now removed from the unterstand. Probably taken from one of the local houses in the area.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Trenches.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
It looks like pillbox but its the second unterstand.
details
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Unterstand with a bricked up door.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
More trenches.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
Trench defence position sitting astride the trench and may have been an ammunition niche where boxes of bullets could be stored ready to use..
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage
More trenches and defence positions.
details
MG34.
MG34 tool kit.
Wn333 St Remy des Landes Plage