Lo26 Plage de Fort Bloque

This coast was quite well protected as it could have been the back way into the Lorient U-boat pens. A determined attack could have landed here and moved over land into Lorient.

Wn Lo26 covers the long beach up to the village of Fort Bloque covered by the red square with Lo24 above, Lo25 & Lo27 behind. There were three open emplacements for 5cm KwK guns, one double 5cm KwK bunker all I believe now removed(or I did not find them!). There is an H502 inside Fort Bloque and another in the north of the Wn Lo26. The list of bunkers only says there is one H502??.

The area of Lo26plan. As far as I saw there was nothing left of the three R600b's and the Doppelschartenstand. .

R502 twin group bunker with a periscope and two rooms for about 14 men. Note the extra side wall, earth would have been piled up against the front and sides to protect it from shelling from the sea.

Rear entrances.

Damage done during capture by the Americans.

A Wellblech is a half round tin/steel hut reinforced by a concrete roof & sides.

This one is in very good condition with the door facing away from the sea with a small window to allow some light and also can double as an escape hatch.

Inside showing the window/escape hatch.

This is the unit that was stationed here when they built the bunkers.

 

 

This one is buried into the ground.

This is the entrance.

 

This looks like more battle damage.

One thing with cable bunkers is that they are quite rare but can be found.

What ever it does this is a common feature of a cable bunker? Connection point for telephone lines?

 

A row of concrete Tetraedres (Tetrahedral) usually used on the beach but hear as a sort of an ant-tank defence line. These have now been removed to I believe a museum??

With the rise of French adventurers going out around the world Lorient ('The Orient') became their home port. With this happening under the noses of those pesky 'English'. The English of the period were trying themselves to take over the whole of the world wide trade and used its navy to stop any but there own ambition. Lorient area was attacked on many locations and by 1747 Fort Bloque was built with other fortifications to protect the port of Lorient.