Lo31 - Lo32 Le Couregant

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Lo31 - Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant

Wn Lo31 & Lo32 sit side by side, two fingers sticking out into the sea facing south.

10 September 2013

5cm KwK 38 L42.
5cm KwK 38 L42.
3.7cm Pak35/36 anti-tank gun.
3.7cm Pak35/36 anti-tank gun.
SK/ Doppelschartenstand.
SK/ Doppelschartenstand.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Lo24 to Lo32.

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Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo31 - Lo32 Le Couregant runs from the bunker on the plan, around the village to the next headland.

Lo31:
1 x R505 MG casemate.
1 x R668 gruppe bunker.
1 - Observation?.
1 x Vf58c Tobruk.
Lo32:
1 x R505 casemate.
1 x R501 groupe bunker.
1 x SK/ Doppelschartenstand.
10 x Vf58c Tobruk's.
1 x R600b ringstands.
2 x 5cm KwK 38 L42.
2 x 3.7cm Pak35/36.

10 September 2013

There were two R501s
There were two R501s
R668 bunker.
R668 bunker.
Lo31 - Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo31 plan.

Plan 24 August 2003

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
View of the bay from on the top of the bunker.

28 June 2002

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
This is part of the large anti-tank sea wall running around the bay.

28 June 2002

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
The damage done was I feel not in battle but by the scrap men. There should have been a large steel front piece bolted to the casemate.

28 June 2002

R505 casemate for anti-tank gun.
R505 casemate for anti-tank gun.
485p2 Panzer schartenplatte steel plate.
485p2 Panzer schartenplatte steel plate.
3.7cm Skoda ant-tank gun with red the steel plate.
3.7cm Skoda ant-tank gun with red the steel plate.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
You can see the cut off bolts that held the plate in place.

28 June 2002

485P2 Panzer schartenplatte.
485P2 Panzer schartenplatte.
Gunner.
Gunner.
Gun room in a contemporary casemate.
Gun room in a contemporary casemate.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Looking into the gun room where soil has been pushed in through the back door.

28 June 2002

Plan.
Plan.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Looking into the ammunition room from the passage.

28 June 2002

Plan.
Plan.
3.7cm ammunition in its carrying box.
3.7cm ammunition in its carrying box.
3.7cm standard early war anti-tank gun.
3.7cm standard early war anti-tank gun.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Passage looking into the crew room.

28 June 2002

plan
plan
Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Crew room.

28 June 2002

Lo32 Le Couregant
Crew room.
Crew room.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Hooks to hang the crews bunks.

28 June 2002

Bunk fittings.
Bunk fittings.
Bunks full.
Bunks full.
Bunk asleep.
Bunk asleep.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Close combat window now removed covered the rear entrance..

28 June 2002

It looks like a 422po1 plate.
It looks like a 422po1 plate.
Close combat machine gun.
Close combat machine gun.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Close combat window, the other side.

28 June 2002

Close combat machine gun.
Close combat machine gun.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
Gun room. Looking at the gun room from the passage with the front to the right and the rear entrance on the left..

28 June 2002

3.7cm Skoda Pak.
3.7cm Skoda Pak.
R505 plan.
R505 plan.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
The gun would swivel on a centre mounting and the trail would fit into this slot.

28 June 2002

You can see the rear trail set into the slot.
You can see the rear trail set into the slot.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant

This is all I had time to look for but there is a lot more to find along this coast . . and all this side is Lo32.

28 June 2002

The bay showing where the two R505's were laid out and their arks of fire.
The bay showing where the two R505's were laid out and their arks of fire.

Lo32 Le Couregant

Lo32 Le Couregant
This may have been an early plan.

from plans given to me dated 24 August 2003