Führerhauptquartier ‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’, Margival, Soissons, France.
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Führerhauptquartier ‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’
Its there somewhere!!! ----------- Zijn er ergens!!!
Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ Plan.
D61 x 1 R504 Pak-Unterstellraum mit Gruppe (Nr731). [Pak garage].
D62 x 1 100A Unterstand für Maschinensatz 60cm. ---- [Shelter for 60cm machine set].
D63 x 1 L410 Unterstand mit Zugbefehisstelle. ---------- [Command bunker].
D997a to 997c x 3 Sockel für Flakhochstand. ------------ [Base for high flak stand]
D998a/b und d x 3 Baracke. ----------------------------------- [Barracks].
D998c Grube für Baracke. -------------------------------------- [Pit for barracks].
3 x 2cm Flak 38 AA guns.
1 x 60cm Searchlight.
Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’
Margival railway station.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’
Margival railway station the search begins.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’
This is the terrain we were looking for Flakstellung ‘16’
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
Umspannwerk Margival (transformer station Margival). This is not strictly in Flakstellung ‘16’ but you come upon it on the way, it would have powered the area grid of Wolfsschlucht 2 in the event the mains French power went down. There were two units, one here and another in the north.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
A double set of heavy steel doors.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
A twin set of diesel generators.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
Switch panel on the left and two generator bases on the right.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
Later French heat exchanger equipment.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
Nicely tiled walls.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
Power cables trench.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
The roof.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D60 transformer set.
Three inlets or out lets on the bunker wall.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’
The search continued.
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Flakstellung ‘16’Flakhochstand D997a-c wooden Flak tower.
Concrete sockets for a wooden Flak tower.
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Flakstellung ‘16’ Flakhochstand D997a-c wooden Flak tower.
Concrete sockets for a wooden Flak tower.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ Flakhochstand D997a-c wooden Flak tower.
Six socket Flakhochstand for 2cm Flak 38.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ Flakhochstand D997a-c wooden Flak tower.
Not all the sockets I believe are there so either they were not all used or ???
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
This like many other Flak sites had a 60cm searchlight to shine on passing aircraft.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
A nicely sunken bunker but this type did not have a steel door but either a wooden or a latices type shutter gate..
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
Entrance.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
Two rooms and outlet cables in the wall recess.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
The small room may have held the engines fuel.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
A 19P7 gas tight door with a glass window sealed this small room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
Recess in the wall where the electricity connected to the outside and the 60cm Searchlight.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
A two pin plug by the entrance. The hinge cover still works. A nice find.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D62 100A Machine set for a 60cm Searchlight.
The way out.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Panzerjägarstand R504. Pak garage for an anti-tank gun.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Paint camouflage is still on the inside where the door should have been fitted.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Entrance there should have been some very heavy steel doors but they were never fitted.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Pak garage where two U shaped runners for the tyres of the gun to run along and two insets in the far wall. There would have also been small brick piers set along the its length. The space under the gun was to store ammunition.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Pak garage showing the brick piers for the U shaped runners and the recess for the gun barrel.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
In the passage way between the garage and the crew room.
At gas car alarm
As well as shooting
Are with raumring
Flagstones
to shoot ------- my very bad translation.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Four way electrical connection box.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Passageway to crew room with a light switch on the wall. Door is a 19P7 type.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Drain just inside the door.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
434PO1 door heavy steel double door.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Inside the first crew room. The electrical items are left over from when the French Army were here.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
422P01 large close combat defence embrasure with a commanders viewing slit as well. Above the embrasure its telling the gunner to put out the lights before opening the slide.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Close up of the 422P01 large close combat defence embrasure
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Second crew room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Crew room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
There should be an Anti-gas filter and pump here.
In the event of a gas hazard
Remove with red ring
And screw in the room filter.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Food store.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Food store.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Looking out of the food store room into the crew room with the 19P7 door The glass has been broken in the small window..
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
The green panel box is later French Army, the red square in the top right corner is the hole for a periscope. There is also a hook in the roof to hang up a bunk bed. The pipe in the wall I think is a stove pipe.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Main bunker entrance 491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door). Machine gun embrasure down the steps covers the entrance.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Better view of the entrance.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Steel ladder leading up to the roof.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D61 R504 Pak garage.
Steel ladder leading up to the roof.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D998a Pit for barracks.
A pit is dug, some have a blast wall built around them and others just a hole and then a hut of wood or concrete built.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ D998b Pit for barracks.
A pit is dug, some have a blast wall built around them and others just a hole and then a hut of wood or concrete built.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
More steel ladders on this 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Entrance down into the L410 crew bunker. The hinge bracket for the 491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door). On the right a niche for a light switch.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Either a light switch or a connection box??
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Close combat and the 434P01 door.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
No. 223.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
434P01 heavy steel door.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Close combat defence embrasure type 48P8.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Light switch niche.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Looking into the gas lock. On the left is an aerial slot and I believe not used here.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
19P7 light steel gas tight door (the red O on the door). The rubber gas seal around the door is a bit moth eaten.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Bunker drain and thermoplastic floor tiles on the floor.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
For gas hazard gas alarm
As well as in the air and shooting
Are the ones with red ring
Flagged doors
close.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Straight in front is the power cable inlet, the recess on the right is where water came in and there may have been a small sink to wash in.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
19P7 light steel gas tight door. The red O donates its a gas tight door.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Crew room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Another drain and a step to enter the room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Crew room of a straight translation of Bereitschaftsraum is Waiting room or work room I would say. There are several bunk bed fittings for about nine men.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
The wall with the ring fitting to take spare filters and the mark on the wall where the anti-gas pump was fitted. Another internal 19P7 light steel gas tight door to the Fernsprechraum, telephone room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Bolted to the wall the anti-gas pump and the nice ring to hold spare filters, one filter maybe an anti smoke filter and another anti gas.
In the event of a gas hazard
Remove with red ring
And screw in the room filter.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
A 48P8 Close combat embrasure. In a standard L410 bunker there was no close combat defence fitted but here at ‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ these were built in.
In case of burning light
Sharte Close.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Entering the Telephone room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Escape in far wall. There should be a 410P9 escape door now missing.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Escape.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Telephone room. On the wall were three Festungsfernsprechar Bunker telephones and 3 Batteriekasten battery cases for low voltage use on the telephone line.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Telephone room. On the wall were three Feldernsprecher Bunker telephones and 3 Batteriekasten battery cases for low voltage use on the telephone line.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker Telephone room.
2 gr. Kabelendverschluse Gr.II, 2 gr. Cable end cap size II. Power cables into the bunker.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Hook for bunk beds. Also original wiring.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Back into the Work room.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
Out to the gas lock.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker ammunition room.
Door to the ammunition room. The 434P01 double heavy steel doors come in left & right. The right fit is standard and some times they needed a left fit. Behind the door was a detoxification cabinet ready to be used if there was a gas attack. This door entered the ammunition room usually for 3.7cm Flak rounds of 3600 in 300 boxes. Here though it was a 2cm ammunition in 480 boxes.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’ 223 D63 L410 Flak bunker.
The way out.
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Führerhauptquartier‘Wolfsschlucht 2’ Flakstellung ‘16’
Flakstellung ‘16’
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