Ca05 Centre Ville

WN · StP Gruppe Cayeux · AOK 15 Haute-Normandie · France

Ca05 Centre Ville

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

HQ MAA 203

1 x R610 HQ bunker.

2 x R501 group shelter.

3 x R600 for a 5cm KwK gun.

3 x Feldmässig shelters of some kind.

3 x 5cm KwK 39 L/60 guns.

Plan of an R501 group shelter.
Plan of an R501 group shelter.
R610 Battle HQ for a strengthened company.
R610 Battle HQ for a strengthened company.
R600 for a 5cm KwK gun.
R600 for a 5cm KwK gun.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.
 

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.
A 1947 air photo of the town with the listed bunkers showing up, the others I could not find anywhere.

1947

R600 type ringstand like the three that would have been here.
R600 type ringstand like the three that would have been here.
5cm KwK 39 L/60.
5cm KwK 39 L/60.
5cm KwK.
5cm KwK.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.
The R501 is behind the wall on the right built in the garden and now covered in vegetation.

24 February 2014

Plan of known bunkers.
Plan of known bunkers.
Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.
Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R501 Gruppe shelter.
A perfectly camouflage bunker.

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Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 Gruppe shelter.
About the size of a two twin group bunkers added together to allow for a company Head Quarters.

With clockwise: -

Tobruk defence. Gas Lock. Crew room. Crew room. Commander. Wireless. Work room. Gas lock & Close combat defence room.

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Plan of an R610, the red dot is a periscope.
Plan of an R610, the red dot is a periscope.
Periscope set into the roof through a steel tube.
Periscope set into the roof through a steel tube.
This is how the tube looks on the top of a bunker, a Periscope Panzerteil.
This is how the tube looks on the top of a bunker, a Periscope Panzerteil.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 HQ bunker.
Quite a large bunker semi sunk into the ground.

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Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.
Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.
Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 HQ bunker.
I am surprised they have not built on top of it?

24 February 2014

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 HQ bunker.
The Tobruk defence. This is the only outward defence the bunker has, the machine-gun could fire 360degrees and also as an anti-aircraft gun, so very useful all around. Also either through a speaking tube or a field telephone the soldier in the Tobruk could spot for mortar fire and be the eyes of the bunkers crew.

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Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 HQ bunker.
The Tobruk defence.

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The sort of machine-gun ring that would fit into the Tobruk.
The sort of machine-gun ring that would fit into the Tobruk.
An Mg34.
An Mg34.
This is a Tobruk on an R611 in Brittany and some of the concrete has been cut away to reveal how the Tobruk looks from below.
This is a Tobruk on an R611 in Brittany and some of the concrete has been cut away to reveal how the Tobruk looks from below.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 HQ bunker.
Concrete camouflage. Note the smooth concrete of the bunker and the stuck on concrete camouflage in a sort of net pattern.

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Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 HQ bunker.
Concrete camouflage & the Tobruk defence.

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Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

R610 HQ bunker.
Close combat defence.

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This is a close combat embrasure and rear entrance of a bunker at Varde in Brittany but it gives the idea of what is there.
This is a close combat embrasure and rear entrance of a bunker at Varde in Brittany but it gives the idea of what is there.
The view past an entrance door along a trench out of the bunker showing the gunners view from the embrasure.
The view past an entrance door along a trench out of the bunker showing the gunners view from the embrasure.
A machine-gun set up to fire through a close combat embrasure.
A machine-gun set up to fire through a close combat embrasure.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

The plan of the R610 Battle HQ for a strengthened company with an added water tank.

Plan Kurt.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.

Ca05 Cayeux Centre Ville.
Another R501 group shelter. This one has been sunk in more than the last R501 presumably because it is in a more vulnerable position.

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Plan of an R501.Entrance & gas lock and crew room with a small close combat embrasure covering the rear door from the crew room.
Plan of an R501.Entrance & gas lock and crew room with a small close combat embrasure covering the rear door from the crew room.
Close combat window defence.
Close combat window defence.
422po1 close combat window of the type that may have been used here.
422po1 close combat window of the type that may have been used here.

Ca06 Cayeux Plage Sud.

Ca06 Cayeux Plage Sud.
Somewhere along the sea wall was this 5cm KwK L/60 Pak gun in a Vf.600 ringstand.

DEFE 2/2092

Vf.600 ringstand.
Vf.600 ringstand.
Vf.600 ringstand.
Vf.600 ringstand.
5cm KwK L/60.
5cm KwK L/60.