StP Va300 Plouharnel, M.K.B.Hella E.673, K.V.Gruppe Vannes, KVA C2, AOK 7. Area 4 covers the flak nord site.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
Area 4 covers the flak nord site. showing where the Flak Nord defence was situated in large open emplacements with crew and ammunition below. There is also a large concrete wall, either a sand wall (I will explain later) or an artillery butts to fire into??.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
This is the area of ‘Flak Nord’ I have numbered the positions to make it easier.
1 - OB Flak.
2 - OB Flak
3 - Fl242 Flak emplacement.
4 - OB Flak.
5 - OB Flak (destroyed).
2 x Tobruk´s one an observation type.
Geoportail 1952
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French Military boundary stone.
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I presume a sand loading wall. These were to allow sand to be removed from the beach and loaded onto trains to build defences and maybe used the Lorient U-Boat pens.
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Sand wall loading bay at Gatteville.
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Sand loading wall.
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Sand loading wall.
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Barbed wire on the grass, part of the wired defence and mine fields.
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Plan of the Flak Nord site. 1. was destroyed post war due either to artillery or bombing practice. The site may have been used as a training target.
Geoportail 1950's
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1. OB Flak emplacement.
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1. OB Flak emplacement.
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How the site could have looked. With here four captured 7.5cm Flak M17/34(f) ex French guns.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
2. OB Flak emplacement.
Flak emplacement for a French 7.5cm Flak M17/34(f) Flak gun.
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2. OB Flak emplacement.
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2. OB Flak emplacement. .
The narrow entrance into the emplacement.
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2. OB Flak emplacement.
Note the hinge pin and the slight recess for a wooden door to close off the entrance.
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2. OB Flak emplacement.
Floor of the Flak emplacement, no ready ammunition spaces around the gun, that is unusual for most Flak emplacements.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
2. OB Flak emplacement.
The view from above. No ready ammunition, no communications cable inlets?? more questions than answers.
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3.Fl242 Flak emplacement.
Fl242 emplacement for medium and light Flak.
This is a proper German Flak emplacement with ready ammunition spaces that can be seen around the outside wall and the larger square crew communications space where communications cables would come in from a command post and relay height, wind, aircraft speed, etc.
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3. Fl242 Flak emplacement.
Fl242 emplacement for medium and light Flak.
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3. Fl242 Flak emplacement.
Fl242 emplacement for medium and light Flak
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Vf58c there are at least ten Tobruk's on the whole site and two were here.
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Vf58c Tobruk crew room space.
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Vf58c Tobruk
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4. OB Flak emplacement.
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4. OB Flak emplacement.
It looks as though extra concrete has been added to protect the seaward side of the emplacement.
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4. OB Flak emplacement.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
4. OB Flak emplacement.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
4. OB Flak emplacement..
There is another cutaway for a door to be fitted and the hinge is still in place.
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5. OB Flak emplacement.
This one was damaged either in the war or before 1950's when the first was destroyed.
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5. OB Flak emplacement.
Hold fast for the anti-aircraft gun.
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5. OB Flak emplacement.
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The second Vf58c Tobruk.
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The second Vf58c Tobruk.
This one is modified so that it can be used as an observation post whilst the second crew man can fire his machine gun.
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StP Va300 Plouharnel M.K.B.Hella E.673
The second Vf58c Tobruk.
This one is modified so that it can be used as an observation post whilst the second crew man can fire his machine gun.
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