Quend Plage sud

BATTERIE · Berck - Le Crotoy K.V.A. D2 · AOK 15 Nord Pas de Calais · France

StP Quend Plage sud.

HQ of Stab II./H.K.A.R. 1245 after April 1944. 1 x R612. 1 x R636. 2 x Munitionsbunkers. 1 x R600b. 1 x 5cm KwK L/60. 1 x 7.5cm F.K.

R600b emplacement for a 5cm KwK Pak gun.

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Walking along the beach in a southerly direction and you are at StP Quend Plage sud.

StP Quend Plage sud.

From here to the R636 is the StP defence, most if not all has gone either under the sand, taken by the sea or due to later development of the town of Quend Plage.

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R636 Fire Command Post for Army Coastal Batterie.

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R636 Command Post for army coastal batteries.

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A range-finder would have been set up on the open space on the roof.

You can see the open space accessible from steps at the back.

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This shows how it has sunk into the sand through erosion, this must have been a real problem for the fortress builder, Todt, RAD or a local French contractor.

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Organisation Todt, a private German company used to build most German defences.

Reichsarbeitsdienst men under age for the armed service were used to help the building industry and were trained on the military principals.

French builders did build bunkers to help out Todt & RAD. They had to make them to the same standards because if they did not they would have been sent off to an unpleasant end

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Rear entrance.

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StP Quend Plage sud.

Rear entrance and close combat window and access to the range-finder on the roof.

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There would have been steel steps set into the concrete.

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Defence Tobruk.

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Close up of where the ring would have been set into the concrete allowing the machine gun to move around.

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Rest for a machine gun would fit onto the metal ring.

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No idea what this was for?? on the floor. The niche had a voice pipe so the gunner could talk to the men inside the bunker.

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Voice pipe set into the base of the Tobruk's ring.

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A range finder would sit in the recess on the roof to line up with the target and work out the range, then send the information downstairs to the computing room and then on to the guns.

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The original command post was inland at Colline de Beaumont but around April 1944 when this bunker was finished they moved here. Their job to control several 17cm K18 gun batteries inland to shoot on any allied craft trying to land soldiers on the beach.

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