Cayeux Sud Batterie
BATTERIE · StP Gruppe Cayeux · AOK 15 Haute-Normandie · France
Cayeux Sud Batterie.
1./H.K.A.A.770 used it up until 1942 then it was abandoned.
4 x Geschützstellung (open emplacement).
5 x Feldm Understands.
5 x Munitionsbunker.
1 x Feldm/Flak.
Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Cayeux Sud Batterie.
The batterie position from inland looking towards the sea. This batterie is made up of bunkers that pre date the Atlantikwall and are more like bunkers in the old German West Wall. Probably this site was originally the home of an artillery unit that was placed here just after the capitulation of the French to cover the coast from a small scale British attack. Then by 1942 onwards the Atlantikwall was ordered to be built and the guns removed and put into another position.
07 June 1945
Cayeux Sud Batterie.
The famous Red Coated photographer in action.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf storage bunker.
This may have had a 2cm Flack gun on the top and the bunker its ammunition storage.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Munitionsbunker.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Munitionsbunker.
Filled with gravel, in an emergency the door was opened, the gravel removed to the inside of the bunker and only then could they climb out. Hair raising.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Munitionsbunker.
Roof with a small gutter running down the right hand edge.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Geschützstellung or Open Emplacement. There are still four here.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf Fire Control Bunker.
Just like many of the earlier design observation bunkers.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf Fire Control Bunker.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf Fire Control Bunker.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf Fire Control Bunker Beobachtung. Bunker Pictures has a photo dated 2007 and it shows this bunker in much better condition.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf Fire Control Bunker inside.
I cannot understand the damage, if this site was not used after 1942 then it may have been used before its capture in 1944 for storage of munitions?? Or it may have been used to blow up shells or mines found in the area by bomb disposal rather than destroy them on the beach??
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf Fire Control Bunker.
The view out towards the sea although the sea is over 300meters away. The observation bunker is sighted facing N/W and diagonal to the shore line?
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Slight damage.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf ammunition bunker.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Batterie site viewed from the east.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Parts of one of the ringstands.
Possibly camouflage net fittings.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf ammunition.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf. personnel bunker.
Just two roomed bunkers the forerunner of the twin group bunkers in the R500 & 600 range later.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf. personnel bunker.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Another of the Vf. personnel bunkers.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Personnel bunkers.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf. ammunition bunker
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf. ammunition bunker.
Looks like an escape hatch tunnel at the end.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf. ammunition bunker.
Several niches on the walls for placing battery powered lamps.
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
Vf. ammunition bunker
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Cayeux Sud Batterie.
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