Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
South of Dieppe there are some very high cliffs, but at several places the cliffs received and there are short lengths of open beach where a landing could take place. Wn Marg05 is just one of them. Immediately defended after the French defeat and then the defence was gradually increasing through the summer of 1944 when several bunkers and a casemate were built.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
1 x R600b open emplacement.
1 x Stollen - bunker.
1 x R612 casemate.
1 x Geschützstellung - open emplacement.
1 x Vf67 Tobruk.
1 x R655 six man bunker with an ammunition room.
2 x Vf/MG.
1 x 5cm KwK.
1 x 7.5cm F.K.234(b).
1 x Pz.T FT17.
5cm KwK. in an R600b emplacement.
Vf67 Tobruk.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
A nice view down the valley to the sea.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
WO 252/149
A reconnaissance was carried out to take some of the worst photos of France ever. Well a small unit was sent to photograph the full length of the Channel coast. This is all we have of Saint-Aubin. It shows the cliffs looking west.
WO 252/149 Northern France Check Reconnaissance Beaches.
WO 252/149 Northern France Check Reconnaissance Beaches.
An Officer and his vehicle, there are even fewer photos of the men that carried this reconnaissance out.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
SHM Plan
1 - Abri passif = Shelter.
2 - Tourelle de char = Tank turret.
3 - Casemate pt Mitrailleuse - Small pillbox.
4 - Abri Personnel avec d'observation =
Personal shelter with observation.
5 - Abri = Shelter.
6 - 7 encuve = 7 Vats (open emplacements Flak).
7 - 3 encuve
= 5 Vats (smaller? open emplacements Flak).
8 - Abri entrerre = Shelter entry.
9 - 12 encuve =
12 Vats (smaller? open emplacements Flak).
10 -
12 encuve =
12 Vats (smaller? open emplacements Flak).
11 - PD de tir = Fire control observation.
12 - casemate
Mitrailleuse, a 2 directions = Casemate for two machine guns in two directions.
13 - Abrisavec
Tobruk = R621 with Tobruk bunker.
14 -
Abrisavec encuve 50 = R655 + Tobruk.
15 - Casemate piece de campagne =
Casemate for 7.5cm F.K.234(b).
16 -
encuve 105 = Geschützstellung for 7.5cm F.K.234(b).
17 - encuve
d'abri souterrain = Underground shelter.
Items in Italics are relevant to the plan.
FT tank turret.
details
Ft in a Tobruk.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Plan
Taking information from several sources and they have contradicting ideas of what was here.
Hay Ho, thats bunker hunting.
R612 casemate for a 7.5cm F.K.234(b).
R655 six man bunker with an ammunition room.
R622 twin group bunker.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
The view looking west.
How the beach would have looked.
Hedgehogs.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
A better view of the beach and the casemate just on the brow of the hill, well placed to cover the beach..
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
R612
Plan.
R612 casemate for a 7.5cm F.K.234(b).
7.5cm F.K.234(b).
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
R612
There was originally a Geschützstellung or open emplacement for the 7.5cm F.K.234(b) a captured Belgian artillery piece. Then when the casemating of artillery close to beaches came in, an R612 was built to house the gun.
R612 inside.
Wooden front doors (if fitted)
Inside with a field gun.
What the Geschützstellung may have looked like. This one is for a 7.5cm gun at Wn62. Omaha Beach..
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
R642
An ex horse drawn LGA (anti landing gun) of 7.5cm. It could fire armoured piercing or high explosive with shrapnel. Although this gun was possibly pre WW1. It was still lethal to landing craft and tanks at effective range.
details
The different types of ammunition.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
The east cliff.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
On the east side there seems only to be one machine gun pill box.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
A locally built pill box defence of the east cliff firing in just two directions, out to sea and west along the beach.
Plan.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
This embrasure fired down the beach.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
This embrasure fired down the beach.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
The rear of the bunker.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
Rear entrance.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
1941 the date of construction and 4 may mean the fourth bunker in the complex?
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Vf/MG
Inside showing the embrasure firing out to sea.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Luftwaffe Flakschule Ramouville
The cliffs are getting very dangerous now.
Luftwaffe Flackshule Ramouville.
AA positions.
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
Wn Marg05, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer