Kergonan/Carnac Batterie 10./A.r.275

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Kergonan/Carnac Batterie 10./A.r.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

These seem very big guns to fit into an R669 casemate?
Batterie 10/ Artillery Regiment 275.

4 x R669.

4 x 15cm s.F.H. 18/40 guns. (Field Howitzer)

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15cm s.F.H. 18/40.
15cm s.F.H. 18/40.
15cm s.F.H. 18/40.
15cm s.F.H. 18/40.
s. Zgkw. 12 t (Sd. Kfz. 8 Heavy Semi track Prime Mover
s. Zgkw. 12 t (Sd. Kfz. 8 Heavy Semi track Prime Mover

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275.
I come in from the south, there is a track that comes up to the battery which is quite narrow and as long as you do not use your wife's car like me its probably better as the farm entrance looks blocked off. Last visit July 2013.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
24th June 2002 looking from the south.

24 June 2002.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
29th August 2012 looking from the south.

29 August 2013

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Officers working out a fire plan.
Officers working out a fire plan.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Rear door.

24 June 2002.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Some additional details will go here

24 June 2002.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Rear door.

24 June 2002.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Now being used as a horse stables.

29 August 2013

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Unable to get inside now.

29 August 2013

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
The black on the rear wall is to stop damp getting in to the bunker when earth is heaped up against it. A sort of tar paint.

24 June 2002.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Tracks for the guns wheals to go in. This battery would have been a field gun battery out in the open and only brought inside around early 1944.

24 June 2002.

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Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Below a plan of the extraction from an R669 casemate.

24 June 2002.

Plan of the extraction of foul gases when a gun is fired, the fan sits in the ammunition niche on the left and when the gun fires the gases are sucked from ducts in the ceiling and then pushed out of vents at the rear.
Plan of the extraction of foul gases when a gun is fired, the fan sits in the ammunition niche on the left and when the gun fires the gases are sucked from ducts in the ceiling and then pushed out of vents at the rear.
Extraction fan.
Extraction fan.
Extraction vent.
Extraction vent.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Ammunition storage niche.

24 June 2002.

Plan of how the ammunition would have been stored.
Plan of how the ammunition would have been stored.
Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Case ammunition and storage boxes.
Case ammunition and storage boxes.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
Rear door.

24 June 2002.

494p2 rear door that may have been fitted hear if they had arrived in time.
494p2 rear door that may have been fitted hear if they had arrived in time.
Vent for extraction fan.
Vent for extraction fan.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
One of the other rear doors closed off with PSP (Pierced Steel Planking)

24 June 2002.

Americans laying PSP on an airfield.
Americans laying PSP on an airfield.

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
 

29 August 2013

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275

Kergonan, Carnac. Batterie 10./A.R.275
 

24 June 2002.

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A perfect sunset to a perfect day. Started at Fort Bloque next Gavres next Etel next Plouharnel and then Carnac 24 June 2002.

24 June 2002.