"Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Sud

Plan of "Auerhahn" Cap d'Antifer, Sud

Eisenpfahel barbed wire post, there are many here and some probably in their original positions.
I have walked these fields many times and twice 2022 and 2025. I have managed to walked to the far end to Cap d'Antifer, Sud. On both occasions the field with this radar set was guarded by young Bullocks.

Eisenpfahel with the bunkers behind.
Eisenpfahel - Iron post.

Vf Unterstand, an early design, 1940/41 pos. That were built all along the coast, before the main bunker construction started.
They can be made in any length and used as command posts, barracks, in fact any use a building like this is needed for.
This time 2025 it was very wet and you can see its flooded.

Unterstand in 2022 just a small amount of water.
This actually may have been part of WN Valleuse de Bruneval Nord?

Bunkers on the horizon.

Bomb crater.
Bombing took place on the run up to D-Day to basically, turn out their lights.
Bombing with heavy bombers, cannoning and rocketing with fighter bombers.

Cannon shell hits on this bunker.

The concrete block, may have been part of a telephone junction box.

L409A emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak gun.

L409A emplacement for a 3.7cm Flak gun.

View towards the ruins of Manoir de Falaise.

Ruins of Manoir de Falaise.

L480 Bunker for "Wasserman-S Klein Heidelberg" radar.

This is an Allied intelligence photo of a "Wasserman-S Klein Heidelberg" or "Chimney" (Allied code word) being erected. A delicate job as it is a 30m x 2.5m steel tube and probably very heavy. There is a crane on its top to lift into place the aerial frames.

L480 Bunker for "Wasserman S" radar.
From AIR 20/1641 explaining all about the radar.

L480 Bunker for "Wasserman S" radar.
From AIR 20/1641 explaining all about the radar.

L480 Bunker for "Wasserman S" radar.
The end where the tube of the radar fitted.

At one end of the casemate is the base for the rotatable hollow tube, this is it.
Fotos af bunker type L 480 for radar Wasserman S an interesting web page on this type of bunker.

Aerial details from AIR 20/1641.
Looking at the first picture, on the left is the "Chimney". The base was fitted into its socket at the base and it swiveled about halfway up. Also its design was to point towards a CH signal, so it only had to swivel a few degrees to align with the CH in England.

CH - Chain Home radar stations.

The system worked by listening to the British 'Chain Home' radars, that sent out a massive signal. A little bit like switching a light on. "Wasserman-S Klein Heidelberg" listened to the broadcast (did not transmit) and watched aircraft, lit up by CH. Then computed their position and with the aid of Würzburg radars close by, tracked incoming aircraft.

L480 Bunker for "Wasserman S" radar.
Captured details.

StP235 Carneville Osteck Luftwaffe Station "Tausendfüßler"
Inside an L480 with John checking his Facebook page.

This is where the radar head would have been fitted.

Panorama.

Wasser reservoir.