Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Cancale a wonderful place for sea food. Situated on the coast between Le Mont Saint Michel and Saint-Malo. Ra104b:

2 x R501 Group shelter.

1 x R502 Twin group shelter.

1 x Vf600 Emplacement for 5cm KwK gun adjusted.

1 x R504 Anti-tank bunker with group shelter.

1 x R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK.

6 x Vf68c Tobruk's.

1 x Stolen.

2 x 5cm KwK L/42 guns. Ra310a: Station Kriegsmarine,

1./3. Funkmess-Abteilung. 1st Company of the 3rd Marine Transmission Groupe 1 x SK/Machinenstand.

1 x Fu.MO 2 (FuMG Gema NR.g.236type 40a).

August 1944 all equipment and personnel were transferred to the Channel Islands.

R504 Anti-tank bunker with group shelter.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b (red) is the Pointe and Ra310a (yellow) is the radar station.

Ra310a:
Station Kriegsmarine, 1./3. Funkmess-Abteilung.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Plan dated 30 Jan. 1943.

WEHRGEOL docs.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

The view back as we started out on our walk. Ra104a Château de la Barbe Brulée. (That is for another day)

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. The first Tobruk.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra310a Exploitation bunker. This is the exploitation bunker where the radar operators would have to work.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra310a SK/Machinenstand.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra310a SK/Machinenstand. Behind this bunker was a Seetakt Gema radar.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra310a SK/Machinenstand.

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Probably two generator sets would be inside here, plus storage for fuel.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra310a SK/Machinenstand. The entrance into the bunker where quite large generator sets would have been brought in.

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A plan of how it may be. A big entrance to allow large machinery to be moved in. You cannot get access.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra310a. Radar Exploitation Bunker by the Semaphore & then the Generator bunker. In front was a base for a Fu.MO 2 (FuMG Gema NR.g.236type 40a). A view back at the semaphore with the radar bunker and to its right the place the radar would have been placed. I have cut and pasted a Seetakt Gema radar scanner onto the picture to show what it may have looked like.

RAF Target File.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

RAF Target File low level air photo showing the radars.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. R502 twin group bunker. Inset the Tobruk attached to the bunker.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. R502 twin group shelter.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

The Pointe.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. The west side of the Pointe With the Semaphore above you can see one R667/SK 5cm KwK casemate and a covered Tobruk.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK 39 L/42 Pak gun. A long way down.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. How one gets to the bunker. I'm too old for this.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun. The gun room with the ready ammunition storage on the left, then the door, to the right is a square chute for putting the fired brass case to clear them from the gun room. Behind the wall (inset) is an added ammunition room.

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R667/SK with extra ammunition or crew space behind.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun. Part of the corroded gun still in place.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. R667/SK casemate for a 5cm KwK gun with the view from the door.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. Covered Tobruk. Two very unusual Tobruk's they could only fire one direction.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. Covered Tobruk two.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker. Set into the side of the cliff is a very well camouflaged Ringstand for a 5cm KwK and behind a personnel/ammunition bunker. Usual the Ringstand fits on the top of the bunker, but here its placed at the side.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. The Ringstand. R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker. A narrow passageway to the bunker.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R600 Ringstand. The view the gunners would have had. Ready ammunition would have been stored in the niches set around the Ringstands low wall.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b. R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker. Left : steps down into the bunker. Right : the gas lock area and an armoured door to the ammunition room.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker. The armoured door to the ammunition room showing the door fittings. A Marine type door 434p01.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker. Crew room on the left, ammunition room on the right and the gas lock in the front.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker. The ammunition room, the painting on the wall is NOT original we believe.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R600 Ringstand and personnel bunker. The crew room with the main door and an escape passage and 410p9 escape door.

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The way the escape works with the door and a passage through the concrete wall and a steel ladder up the side.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R504 gun garage for a 3.7cm Pak gun. The bunker is set into a bank with access both ways.

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The Pak gun could be moved up to the coast or back to the road making a flexible defence.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R504 gun garage for a 3.7cm Pak gun. Inset is a gate (491p2 Gittertür).

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How it may look inside. An R504 at Ra670.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R504 gun garage for a 3.7cm Pak gun. Looking into the entrance through the Gittertür with the close combat window protecting the entrance. On the right is the escape tunnel.

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Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

Ra104b R504 garage. 494p2 armoured double garage door.

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494p2 double heavy steel armoured doors.

Ra104b/Ra310a Pointe du Grouin.

The view from the Pointe. The Brittany coastline is very varied and beautiful, here with with cliffs, small coves, fishing ports and fine sandy beaches.

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