StP 'Gabriel', Plage St Gabriel,

STP · Hardelot - Merlimont K.V.A. D1. · AOK 15 Nord Pas de Calais · France

StP 'Gabriel', Plage St Gabriel,

StP Gabriel

This position seems to be a coast defence including a Flak element. Four 2cm Flak 30 AA guns. Several ammunition and machine gun bunkers. There is much more to find in the camping site than the few we saw.
2cm Flak 30.
2cm Flak 30.
2cm Flak 30.
2cm Flak 30.
StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
1 x R502 twin group shelter. 1 x R630 MG with front plate. 1 x R612 casemate. 2 x Vf/MG 1 x Wasser bunker. 2 x Vf2a group shelter. 1 x Geschützstellung (Ringstand) 4 x Flakstellung 4 x 2cm Flak 30.

Geoportail

R502.
R502.
R630.
R630.
R612
R612

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
A 1946 air photo showing many of the buildings there and I have added where I think the Flak sites were.

eoportail 1946

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
2cm Flak 30
Guns tools.
Guns tools.
2cm magazines.
2cm magazines.
Flak 30.
Flak 30.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
South of St. Cécile this may be the Flak site for the area. There was a radar site in St. Cécile with Fu.MG StP Luftwaffe station "Bulldogge" and a large batterie of 15.5cm guns .

German plan

Low level flak.
Low level flak.
StP Gabriel
Telemetry range finder.
Telemetry range finder.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
A walk along the coast.

24 October 2014

Plan.
Plan.
StP Gabriel
StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
StP St. Cécile Turm1 ringstand for a 15.5cm K418[f].

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StP Gabriel
StP Gabriel
StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Continuing along the coast and you come upon Eisenpfahel barbed wire fence posts. They may even be still in the place they were set in the 1940's.

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire fence posts.
Eisenpfahel barbed wire fence posts.
Eisenpfahel point.
Eisenpfahel point.
Barbed wire.
Barbed wire.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Eisenpfahel barbed wire fence posts.

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StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Two small Unterstands.

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Plan.
Plan.
StP Gabriel
StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
We did not walk into the field in case it was a mine field. Well there probably was one here once.

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Plan.
Plan.
StP Gabriel
Nasty mines.
Nasty mines.
Laying mines.
Laying mines.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

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StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

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Plan.
Plan.
StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

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StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Re visited in 2020.

26 January 2020

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
This may have been a house demolished to use the remains as a defence.

24 October 2014

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

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Base plans for 2cm Flak mountings.
Base plans for 2cm Flak mountings.
Coastal Flak.
Coastal Flak.
Flak 30 barrel.
Flak 30 barrel.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Camping site.

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Plan.
Plan.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Ammunition shelter R138.

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Plan.
Plan.
M134 Plan.
M134 Plan.
Flak crew.
Flak crew.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Steps down into the bunker. The guns crews would be running up and down these steps to keep the 2cm Flak 30 with ammunition.

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2cm Flak ammunition magazines.
2cm Flak ammunition magazines.
2cm Flak barrels.
2cm Flak barrels.
Ammunition boxes.
Ammunition boxes.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel
Ammunition bunker.

24 October 2014

Flak 30.
Flak 30.
Ammunition handlers.
Ammunition handlers.
R134 above ground.
R134 above ground.
R134 two ammunition rooms.
R134 two ammunition rooms.

StP Gabriel

StP Gabriel

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