StP 'Moritz', Les Huttes d'Oye plage ouest

One of the defences that covered the gap between Calais and Dunkirk that if there had been an invasion, the Allies would have landed here and then come around the back of two of the major ports on the French north coast. This of course did not happen.

1 x 10cm light field howitzer 14/19(t). 1 x 7.5cm Kanone. 1 x 5cm KwK. 1 x 3.7cm 311(f). 1 x 3.7cm 144(f). 1 x 4.7cm 181(f) Pak. 1 x 4.7cm 36(t) Pak. 1 x 2.5cm 112(f) Pak. 1 x 3.7cm Flak. 2 x 2cm Flak. 1 x 13.9mm Panzerbüchse (armoured rifle) 1 x M.G. 311(f). 1 x M.G. 156(f). 1 x M.G. 37(f). 1 x M.G. 08/15. 1 x L.M.G 26 (t). 1 x L.M.G 28 (p). 2 x L.M.G 15. 1 x L.M.G 34. 1 x S.M.G 34. 1 x 5cm L.Gr.W. 36 Mortar. 2 x 8.1cm S.Gr.W. 36 Mortar. 23 x Karabiner 98K Rifles. 3 x Gew.Gr.Gerät alt (old). 3 x Gew.Gr.Gerät neu (new). G.G.P.40. 3 x 0.8mm Pistol. 12 x 7.65mm Pistol. 3 x Leuchtpistole (flair guns). 6 x M.P. 38/40. 2 x Flammenwerfer (Abwehr) Flame throwers for (defence). 2 x Zwillingstockel (twin socket). 1 x Fa§nebelzerstaüber (Fog atomizer) or smoke machine. 1 x Handscheimwerfer (hand held lights [search light?]). 28 x Seitengewehr (Side gun). 3 x Zielfemrohrgewehre (telescopic sights for rifles). 49 x Heer (army). 2 x Marine (navy). This diversity of weapons from all over Europe. Ammunition would have been individual to each weapon. Three anti-tank guns, two French one Czech. Five Kanone, two French, two German and one Czech. Machine guns about seven, three French, one Polish and one Czech.

An anti-tank wall runs the complete length of this defence.

Most of the defences along this part of the coast were prefaced with StP (Stützpunkt) where as in other areas they would be Wn's (Widerstandsnest).

You can see the anti-tank wall closed off the track.

The anti-tank wall.

The anti-tank wall with a Vf MG-Pilz set into the angle of the wall. Behind the Pilz is a Vf2a.

Vf MG-Pilz able to use about three embrasures for its machine gun.

This is a Pilz further west showing one that is not attached to a tank wall.

The original track was cut by the anti-tank wall.

The tank wall continuing west. The sea came almost up to the wall in 1944 now its quite away back.

There were railway lines set into the wall probably about a meter high and strung between them would be barbed wire.

Vf2a Doppel.

At the rear of the StP is a Vf58c Tobruk covering landward side of the defence.