Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
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Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Alderney a small island off the coast of the Cherbourg Peninsular one of the Channel Islands and a Crown dependency. 3miles x 1.5miles.
In June 1940 its entire population was removed and sent to either the other Channel islands or to Britain (most ended up in Glasgow). Then the German occupation forces arrived on the 2nd July. Hitler thinking that the British would attempt at recapturing, ordered it to become a Festung and later combined into the Atlantikwall.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
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Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Ausboustand-karte Alderney.
Ausboustand-karte Alderney.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Anti-Tank Wall - Panzermauer.
Czech Hedge Hogs - Beach defences.
Tetrahedron. - Beach defences.
Mines.
Fort unused.
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
This was an English fort and for some reason not used by the occupiers. It mounted in 1859 five 68-pounder guns.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Tetrahedra beach defence still in place.
07 May 2006 JF
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Eisenpfahel barbed wire defence posts.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Czech hedgehog. Anti-tank defence.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Czech hedgehog anti-tank defence.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Main entrance to the fort now a builders merchants.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Sand loading bay to be used in the manufacture of concrete.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
I have found at least five sand walls where the loading of sand trains by top loading railway wagons from horse drawn or light railway wagons, two in Normandy, two large ones in Brittany and now one here.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Railway trucks now rusting out used for the quarries and they would have been used here for the transfer of sand.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
Railway trucks now rusting out used for the quarries.
05 October 2016
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
The sand wall.
07 May 2006 JF
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
The sand wall.
07 May 2006 JF
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
The sand wall.
07 May 2006 JF
Alderney, Panzermauer 12, Platte Saline
05 October 2016