Wn129 Plage du Vicq
This defence covers a slither of land pointing out into the Channel as both sides of the defence would have been flooded so just the beach front would need to be defended.
Plan.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Troops of the 709th Static Infantry Division. Probably a section stationed here.
2 x Vf58c Tobruk´s.
4 x Unterstands.
1 x Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.
1 x 5cm KwK L/42.
1 x Anti-tank wall.
Vf58c Tobruk..
Unterstand.
5cm KwK L/42. No remains of this gun or its ringstand found.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
With the sea behind us, looking at the defended line.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
1958 photo does not show an Nr1694 ringstand for a 5cm KwK anywhere. Some Unterstands show up and two concrete structures. The Tobruks also do not show up..
Nr1694 ringstand.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Anti-Tank Wall
I am sure this wall was a bit taller when it was built. There would have been a barbed wire entanglement all along the top.
Barbed wire.
Screw pickets.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Tobruk Vf58c.
Tobruk covering the left flank.
Plan.
Tobruk Vf58c plan.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
erbaut 40924B
erbaut 40924B
Built 40924B possibly RAD or Todt workers.
Troops of the 709th Static Infantry Division were stationed here but this could be the construction battalions number that built the wall.
Construction workers.
RAD workers.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
A map the Americans would have used to find their way around here.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Minefields
Rommel wanted millions of mines laid along the Atlantikwall. To make out that there were more minefields than there were, dummy fields were laid to look like real ones.
Laying mines.
Teller mine drawing.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Anti-Tank Wall
When the allies built anti-tank walls to learn how to destroy them, most were built way too strongly. Thinking that the Atlantikwall was much stronger than it was. When the tank wall at Omaha Beach was blown, it was found that there was no steel reinforcement in it and it just blown to pieces when rather a large amount of explosive was used.
Tank wall with barbed wire on the top.
Plan.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Anti-Tank Wall
Gun position for either an anti-tank gun or a machine gun.
3.7cm A/T gun.
Machine gun.
3.7cm ammunition.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Anti-Tank Wall
3.7cm Pak 30.
MG.34.
Ammunition.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Anti-Tank Wall
The view of a gunner across the beach.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Anti-Tank Wall
Steel screw pickets were set into the concrete wall and then barbed wire rapped around them.
How it may have looked.
Wiring.
Screw picket.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Anti-Tank Wall
View from the beach.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Unterstands
There are at least two in the field behind the wall and another in the garden of a house just down the road. There maybe another here.
Unterstand.
Plan.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Unterstands
Inside this thicket is an Unterstand.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Unterstands
Entrance hidden in Bracken.
Alarm!
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Unterstands
The entrance.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Unterstands
Another here, somewhere???
Plan.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Unterstands
Details
Plan.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Tobruk
Second Tobruk.
Plan.
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Tobruk
A closer look at the Tobruk.
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Unterstand
When we were there when the house was being built. We saw an Unterstand in his lawn.
Wn129 Plage du Vicq
Unterstand
You can just see it under the lawn,
Unterstand
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Eisenpfahel
Eisenpfahel barbed wire post upside down, this is actually the base of the post. The idea of turning it upside down was so a directional lamp could be placed on the top. This way light could be shined in one direction and a patrol could find their way back. This is the second one found, one here at Wn129 and also Wn128.
Eisenpfahel plan.
Daimon Taschenlampe.
Carbide lamp.
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