Pen02 Criel plage
WN · StP.Gruppe Penly · AOK 15 Haute-Normandie · France
Pen02 Criel plage
Few of these photos are mine, unfortunately. So I have fall back on Google and Geoportail.
This was a small in number but large in area Wn. About a Kilometre of frontage. It covers both sides of the Yéres River. There may be more bunkers to be found here so an interesting place.
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1 x Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).
2 x R134 ammunition bunker's.
2 x R502 Twin Groupe shelter.
2 x R600b Ringstand.
1 x R680 (casemate for 7.5cm Pak40.under construction.
5 x Feldm shelter.
1 x Vf67 Tobruk.
2 x Pz.T. tank turret.
2 x 5cm KwK.
2 x 7.5cm F.K.235(b)
22 October 2014
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Plan of the east of the River Yéres. There may have been an anti-tank wall to the south & west, a barbed wire defence and then trenches. Inside there seems to be some bunkers under construction and an R600b for a 5cm KwK may have been installed there. An R502 is still in a garden in Rue des Embruns. An unterstand with an odd (chimney or bunker?) is in Rue Sainte-Catherine. Then an R600b for a 5cm KwK Pak is in Boulevard Jean Mermoz.
1945 Geoportail
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Criel Plage on the hill with the beach of Criel sur Mer.
24 March 2014
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FA Unterstand in Rue Sainte-Catherine.
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FA Unterstand in Rue Sainte-Catherine seen from the air. Notice the large that looks like a chimney?
1945 Geoportail
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FA Unterstand this could be the chimney? or a Tobruk?
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R502 is still in a garden in Rue des Embruns. The arrows show the size of it and also there is/was a Tobruk defence on the left side.
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R502, I have outlined the sides and rear wall that cannot be seen. The Tobruk defence shows up well in this 1945 photo.
1945 Geoportail
R504 plan.
Plan Kurt.
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In the Boulevard Jean Mermoz is this is stated to be an R600b, but it could also just be an Nr1694 type?
Google looking South
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The Boulevard Jean Mermoz ringstand is marked as an R600b and to its right along the trench line, it looks like possibly another?
1945 Geoportail
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The area at Rond-Point de Verdun. This maybe the start of a defence anti-tank ditch or just a water drainage culvert.
1945 Geoportail
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Anti-tank ditch or just a water drainage culvert. Even as a culvert it would make a very good anti-tank ditch.
DEFE 2/2092 Report No 2 on German coastal defences in the Ostende/Dieppe area
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The beach around 1944/5 with the barbed wire, tetrahedra and what looks like a floating mine box.
WO 252/149 Northern France Check Reconnaissance
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The river was allowed to flood the inland and can be seen in this picture.
DEFE 2/2092 Report No 2 on German coastal defences in the Ostende/Dieppe area
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The West side of Criel plage. This is a smaller defence but an R680 was being constructed to hold a 7.5cm Pak 40. By the beach a Vf bunker for 4.7cm Festung-Pak(t).
1945 Geoportail
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24 March 2014
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A possible Vf bunker for a 4.7cm Pak (t).
1945 Geoportail
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Somewhere here was a Pak bunker
24 March 2014
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There is a small concrete wall and a flint and brick wall behind???
24 March 2014
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This is possibly the Vf casemate type that was used here.
24 March 2014
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This is about where the large R680 casemate was being constructed. You can see the red lines where the gun could fire. Deadly.
An R680 could take a range of guns that were available from a 5cm Pak to the 7.62cm Pak(r) but also a field gun could be placed inside and there were two field guns here at Pen02 7.5cm F.K.235(b) type.
24 March 2014
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Air photo of the R680 casemate under construction and it looks like it is being built in Formstein, a form of concrete block inner and outer wall, in the gap steel reinforcement rods were placed and then filled with concrete.
1945 Geoportail
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24 March 2014