La Pallice U-Boat Torpedo storage.

Red square - Torpedo bunker with 3x Flak positions.
Green square - Torpedo bunker.
Yellow square -The torpedo bunker we visited.

The torpedo store 1025, it now sits alone as the whole area has been cleared and ready for building work. This building has what looks like a Georgian style doorway architecture possibly to make it look more like a local building and not a wartime bunker of importance to the U-Boat fleet. They were built around 1943

From AIR 28/305.
Attack on the entrance Lock Gates, La Pallice 06 July 1943. This was by 71 unescorted aircraft of the United States Bomber Command. A total of 275 x 1000lb bombs were dropped.
The torpedo bunkers are in red and the roadways made for them in white.

The three Torpedo bunkers.

This is the third bunker, now removed and it had three Flak bunkers on the roof. They maybe Flak 29 Oerlikons. The navy seem to use these more than the Luftwaffe and army, I suppose that is because they used them a lot on ships. I have just proved myself wrong here, I noticed the three bases inside the Flak emplacements and they correspond with the Flak 38's three foot pads.

Heavy armoured door with large bolts to close it.

A peep inside.

Incendie Civile part of the fire brigade and also here the bomb disposal (déminage, part of the Sécurité Civile). There were so many bombs dropped on the port and also so many mines laid, so these units are still after all these years, still busy defusing and blowing up old ordnance.

Telephone connections.

This we were very unsure of, looks like a shed, but was part of the torpedo stores. It may have held torpedo fuzes.

Much stronger than it first looks.

A German shed used for either storage or barracks.

Concrete cores look as though they may have been taken from the U-Boat pens.

Steel re bar inside the concrete.

Members of U-124 loading a torpedo.