Merlimont Batterie

BATTERIE · Hardelot - Merlimont K.V.A. D1. · AOK 15 Nord Pas de Calais · France

Merlimont Batterie

Batterie 9/A.R.149, four 15.5cm s.F.H.414 starting to be placed in casemates. Set back from the coast covering the beach defences south of Stella Plage.

Ammunition came in two parts, case and shell.

It could be towed by a team of eight horses if a two-wheeled limber was placed under the trail and the barrel pulled back along the trail to move the centre of gravity towards the limber.

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Batterie 9./A.R. 149. 2 x R669 casemates. (only one found). 4 x Geschützstellung (Ringstand's none found). 1 x R128 early type twin group bunker. 1 x 2cm Flak 30. 4 x 15.5cm s.F.H.414(f).

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Rue Camille Delacroix looking west.

22 February 2014

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Rue Camille Delacroix The StP is between these houses and there is a concrete track all the way up to the site.

22 February 2014 - 15 March 2024

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This is all that can be seen in1946 with one R669.

NA 1944

1 x R128 twin group bunker with forward apron.

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The path into the dunes. The sand dunes before the war were open clear sand and since the war, trees have been planted and grasses to stabilize the sand. Also all the houses along this part of Rue Camille Delacroix are nearly all post war.

22 February 2014

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Then it comes into view You are going to see this red coat a lot here.

22 February 2014

The battery at Stella Plage and this one would have given cross fire onto the beach.

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R669 casement Note the concrete roadway.

22 February 2014

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R669 casement.

15 March 2024

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R669 Casemate view from the rear.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate rear entrance.

15 March 2024

How a set of rear doors would have looked if they had been fitted.

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R669 Casemate This bunker has two quite small niches either side. This side may have had the extractio fan sucking foul air out of the bunker when it fires.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate Pipes for the extractor fan to remove foul gases from the gun room.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate vent from fan.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate Ammunition niches. The square holes in the door frame were to set in the door frame and then a set of steel doors to close it off. They were either never fitted or were taken for scrap.

22 February 2014

494P2 are the type of doors that may have been used?

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R669 Casemate gun room rear door.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate gun room embrasure.

15 March 2024

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R669 Casemate command cable inlets.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate This looks as though there were doors on the front.

15 March 2024

A set of wooden front doors on a casemate.

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R669 Casemate The front.

15 March 2024

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R669 Casemate crew room entrance.

22 February 2014

On the side of the bunker is a small crew room.

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R669 Casemate Small crew room entrance.

15 March 2024

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R669 Casemate Crew room It is quite a large bunker with reinforced roof and quite thick walls.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate Crew room Nicely painted walls.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate Crew room The way out.

22 February 2014

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R669 Casemate Crew room This looks as though there was a cabinet screwed to the wall?

22 February 2014

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Rear of the casemate.

22 February 2014

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The entrance can just be seen on its left side.

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker The blast wall on the left side and entrance on the right..

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker The entrance into the bunker.

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker By the entrance is a voice pipe to communicate with the inside of the bunker.

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker Continuing into the bunker with a long passage.

24 October 2014 - 15 March 2024

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R128 twin group bunker Hinge for a 491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door).

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker On the right a niche for a telephone to talk to the inside of the bunker. The niche in the far end was a close combat embrasure covering the entrance.

24 October 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 March 2024

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R128 twin group bunker The other side of the close combat embrasure a very interesting type, it has two slots, one a viewing slit and the second the embrasure to shoot through.

15 March 2024

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R128 twin group bunker Entrance which may have had a sliding door.

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker Crew room with the close combat defence embrasure..

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker Kurt's plan of the R128 bunker..

Plan by Kurt.

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R128 twin group bunker Kurt's plan of the R128 bunker..

Plan Kurt.

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R128 twin group bunker The crew room looking at the anti-gas pump fitted on the wall .

15 March 2024 - 15 March 2024

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R128 twin group bunker The crew room bunk fittings on the wall .

15 March 2024

The threads sticking out of the wall are to locate the bed bunk supports..

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R128 twin group bunker The crew room looking at the anti-gas pump fitted on the wall .

15 March 2024

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R128 twin group bunker The second exit.

24 October 2014

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R128 twin group bunker Pressure relief valve.

15 March 2024

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R128 twin group bunker The way out, the same way we came in as the other side is blocked up. Note the hinge on the right for the 491P2 Gittertür (Screen Door)..

24 October 2014