StP Berck Süd H.K.B.

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

StP Berck Süd H.K.B.

Batterie 10./H.K.A.R1245. Heers Küsten Artillery Regiment.

4 x R671 (two possibly under construction but none were finished?).

1 x R612 casemate.

1 x R640 casemate for 3.7/4.2cm Pak with front plate.

1 x Leitstand/SK (Fire control post).

4 x Vf58c Tobruk.

2 x Wellblech shelter.

1 x R665 infantry observation post .

1 x Ringstand for a 5cm KwK.

4 x 10.5cm K29(p).

2 x 2cm Flak 38.

1 x 5cm KwK 28 gun.

1 x 7.5cm F.K.17(t) gun.

1 x 3.7cm Pak 35/36 gun.

1 x Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsörersaüle Fu.MO 3 radar.

For more information on the radar go to StP Berck Süd (Coastwatcher Radar).

Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsörersaüle Fu.MO 3.

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The lighthouse was built in 1950 after the wartime lighthouse was demolished?

15 March 2024

Inside a Wellblech. There were two here.

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Av. du Phare. The road to the sea..

22 February 2014

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Allied target photo XII/22. Pte de Haute Blanc held a Coastwatcher radar as well an artillery battery and defence site.

22 February 2014

Coastwatcher was the Allied code word for a Fu.MG Seetakt Gema Zertsörersaüle Fu.MO 3..

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A plan of what is left today, or what we found.

Google after Relikte

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The area of the battery is to the left of Av. du Phare and to the right is the radar site.

22 February 2014

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On a cold but sunny February day 2014 and then later on a cold sunny day in March 2024.. There were several beach defence casemates and artillery positions, very little is now left..

22 February 2014

R612 casemate, there seems to have been one here?.

7.5cm F.K.17(t) would have looked like this one.

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Vf51 + garage.

22 February 2014

Plan of a Vf51 half group shelter + garage..

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Vf51 + garage.

16 March 2024

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Vf51 + garage.

22 February 2014

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Accommodation room on the left and the entrance passage on the right. Note that there is no reinforcement bars throughout tis bunker?

22 February 2014 - Google/plan

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Accommodation room on the left and the entrance passage on the right.

22 February 2014

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Looking into the garage and the entrance into the bunkers passageway.

Lettering scratched into the garage roof.
The lettering IV IX.

22 February 2014

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Tobruk one of 4 Vf58c that were here. We found two.

22 February 2014

Elevation of a Tobruk with the door down on the side of the ammunition/crew room ad steps up to the Tobruk gun position.

Plan with the gun position on the left and ammunition/crew room on the right.

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Tobruk. Cable inlets to the Tobruk which means all the bunkers here may have been linked by a telephone system..

22 February 2014

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Tobruk Vf58c.

22 February 2014

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Another Tobruk.

22 February 2014

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Tobruk. This one has a lot of brick rubble that may have been used in the construction of a trench attaching the Tobruk to other defences..

22 February 2014

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Tobruk.

22 February 2014

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Tobruk. The crest set into the wet concrete when this Tobruk was made was possibly a RAD or TODT Organisation unit number.

22 February 2014

RAD Reichsarbeitsdienst (translated to Reich Labour Service).

The Todt Organisation (German: Organisation Todt) (OT) was a Third Reich civil and military engineering group in Germany named after its founder, Fritz Todt,.

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Open Ringstand Geschützstellung for a 10.5cm K29(p).There was four Ringstands for the four guns.

22 February 2014

10.5cm K29(p) the (p) which means it was a captured Polish gun..

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Damaged Ringstand (Geschützstellung).

22 February 2014

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Michelmannstand. There were about three here and I believe two broken ones remain.

22 February 2014

This is a model giving an idea of what it looked like. A machine-gun on a heavy stand would be placed on the top, giving it a firm base to fire from..

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Remains.

22 February 2014

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22 February 2014