"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est
RADAR · K.V.Gruppe Etretat · AOK 15 Haute-Normandie · France
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est,
Cap d'Antifer, Est.
This site has some large and interesting bunkers mostly Luftwaffe types. One the 'Anton' bunker an L479 called "Stolzenfels" for night fighter control. A two level bunker with a large inside room open to the two floors as a control room, where controllers sat above on a balcony and below a table with targets and friendly aircraft markers can be moved around by Luftwaffe personnel.
Two L486 "Kreuzeck" & "Brocken" bunkers for perminent radar devices. As yet I have no idea what these did, but will try and find out. They were single level bunkers.
A Freya FuMG 450 and Würzburg radar sets.
Sébastien Haule.
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est,
1943:
1 x R622 twin group bunker.
1 x Barracks.
2 x L409A 3.7cm Flak.
1 x L479 "Stolzenfels" bunker for night fighter control 'Anton'.
1 x Freya FuMG 450.
1 x Würzburg radar & V229 socket.
+ by 1944:
1 x L486 "Kreuzeck" bunker for perminent radar devices.
1 x L486 "Brocken" bunker for perminent radar devices.
1 x R622 twin group bunker.
2 x Barracks.
4 x 58c Tobruks.
1 x 5cm KwK in emplacement.
1 x L413A Ammunition bunker for 3.7cm Flacknt radar devices. As yet I have no idea what these did, but will try and find out. They were single level bunkers.
A Freya FuMG 450 and Würzburg radar sets.
1943 (AIR 40/1667
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est,
L479 bunker for night fighter control 'Anton' StP Douvres I, Riva-Bella, AOK7.
18 July 2019
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est,
L479 bunker for night fighter control 'Anton' StP Douvres I, Riva-Bella, AOK7.
18 July 2019
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est,
L479 bunker for night fighter control 'Anton' StP Douvres I, Riva-Bella, AOK7.
How it was built, a nice cutaway model.
18 July 2019
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est,
Telephone exchange.
The controllers preferred not to use codes but talk in open language. This is OK when they use the telephone, land line. If the land line is broken, then they have to talk in open language to the pilots via radio. Radio could be listened in by the enemy and both the Allies and the Germans had a very good listening service and could sometimes, intervene and redirect the aircraft.
Luftwaffe fighter control Gyges. A very good website on the subject.
18 July 2019
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer
Inside an 'Anton' bunker at StP Douvres I "Distelfink" inside the control room (command post),
18 July 2019
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est
An RAF plotting table, very like the one that would have been here.
L479 named locally as "Stolzenfels" (named after a Schloss near Koblenz).
It was used for night fighter control. A two level bunker with a large inside room open to the two floors as a control room, where controllers sat above on a balcony and below a table with targets and friendly aircraft markers can be moved around by Luftwaffe personnel.
RAF plotting
"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est
"Schonbrunn" bunker, one of the two water bunkers. This could be the R675 Wasser bunker on the plan.
SHM

"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Est
Bunkers in the farm area.
Possibly the L413A ammunition bunker for light AA section..
SHM
