de Fermanville le Judee           'Ostmark'

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de Fermanville le Judee           'Ostmark'

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Batterie de Fermanville la Judee Batterie 'Ostmark' 5./AR 1709.

4 x 10.5cm K.331(f).

4 x R669 casemates.

These casemates were not completed and the guns never used in them. The guns would have been used in local field positions.

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Horses artillery.
Horses artillery.
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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
 

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 1 is set in some woodland and inaccessible. Turm 2 is in a farm yard. Turm 3 & 4 in fields. The ammunition magazine is under a barn near the track.

IGNF 1947

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
The batteries job would have to cover this part of .

IGNF

R669 casemates for a field gun.
R669 casemates for a field gun.

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 1 Four standard R669 casemates for a field gun.

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 2 Where the door would have fitted.

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
 

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
View along the gun line.

1944 US Army Signals Corps, Nicholas Rudziak.(Thank you to Jim Swan)

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
 

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 3

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
 

1944 US Army Signals Corps, Nicholas Rudziak.(Thank you to Jim Swan)

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
 

1944 US Army Signals Corps, Nicholas Rudziak.(Thank you to Jim Swan)

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 4

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 3

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Turm 3 From behind.

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

1944 US Army Signals Corps, Nicholas Rudziak.(Thank you to Jim Swan)

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Inside showing where the gun sat and where the small opening to fire through. We did not enter any of the casemates as they were private. This one was open, We did have permission from the farmer to look into the magazine.

22 January 2007

Plan of the inside.
Plan of the inside.

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
This is inside one of the R669 here.

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Under the barn is an ammunition magazine and the shells could be rolled out through the small niche under the barn. They would then be carried to replenish the casemates.

22 January 2007

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Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Ammunition magazine You can just see two narrow gauge railway lines used as reinforcement.

22 January 2007

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Ammunition magazine The entrance is down the steps and the niche is where the red and white road marker is

22 January 2007

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
Ammunition magazine The entrance is down the steps and the niche is where the red and white road marker is.

22 January 2007

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',

Battery Judee 'Ostmark',
 

1944 US Army Signals Corps, Nicholas Rudziak.(Thank you to Jim Swan)