Stp. Vasouy M.K.B.

HKB · StP.Gruppe Trouville · AOK 15 Haute-Normandie · France

StP Vasouy M.K.B

Covering the mouth of the River Seine.

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9./MAA 266. (Marine Artillery Abteilung) 3 x M272 casemates. 1 x M262 fire control post for a light battery. 3 x 15cm Tbts.K.L./45 guns. 4 x 2cm flak28 Oerlikon.

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The German plan of the area showing all the defence positions north of Trouville.

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The D513 from Honfleur to Villerville is very busy but there is a lay by (parking) on the opposite side of the road near the gate. Plan of the battery area.
Red : is the Fire Control Post PDT.

Yellow : Vf ammunition.

White - the M272 casemates.

Two complete and one very damaged casemate.

IGNF

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Just entering the field via the gate where there is a concrete base for a hut or such like.

22 July 2008

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Air photo showing the battery site..

IGNF

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This is one of the best preserved M262's, it was never as far as I can see fired on or bombed. As the allies advanced the battery's crew retreated north and crossed the Seine.

30 October 2010

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The entrance into the range-finder room.

22 July 2008

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The rear entrance into the range finder room.

22 July 2008

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Range-finder room. The concrete raised base is for a range-finder to stand on.

22 July 2008

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The view across towards Le Havre and the E-Boat pen.

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Range-finder room a better view.

03 November 2010

Some of the wood shuttering is still in place and also it looks as though the work on this M272 was very hurried by waste concrete not removed.

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Range-finder room at the rear showing where it has been partly filled in.

22 July 2008

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The entrance.

03 November 2010

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Camouflage netting hooks made from the re enforcing rods bent over.

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The entrance to the computing room.

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The stars down.

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Close combat embrasure in front and below a space to pass equipment. The niches in the walls either side are for light switches and the slots are for telescopic aerials.

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Drain in the floor, remember its their when you walk into a bunker they nearly all have one.

03 November 2010

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Passing through the gas lock. This is my opinion but I think that many if not all the metal fittings had not been installed. It looks as though it was a hurried build and may have been up and ready after Christmas 1944 not August 1944.

03 November 2010

19P7 door that should have been here, I am not sure if they were fitted.

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Computing room.

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A model of an M262. This gives an idea of what it would have looked like inside.

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Steps up to the observation room.

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The observation slit.

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The rear wall of the observation room.

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The computing room.

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A manhole to what??

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483P2 close combat defence window that possibly should have been fitted here.

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Wireless, liaison & watch-Office.

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Communications cables possibly to the three casemates.

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Wireless, liaison & watch-Office.

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The way out.

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The steps out.

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Casemate Turm
3 x 15cm Tbts.K.L./45 15cm ships or submarines main gun.

03 November 2010

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Casemate Turm 3 the only part of the casemate that you can see is the rear entrance. A large block of concrete with access either side as the plan below.

03 November 2010

Rear entrance where two sets of steps either side join into a passage into the gun room with shell and case rooms either side.

The passage with the two ammunition rooms either side..

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M272 Casemate Turm 2.

09 July 2008

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Turm 2.

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Turm 1 totally destroyed and just a crater left. It may be that the British piled all the ammunition into Turm 1 and exploded it. It must have been one hell of an explosion.

03 November 2010

M272 Casemate Turm 1 from the air. You can still see the large crater now a pond.

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Turm 1.

03 November 2010

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Very little known story that took place at the MKB Vasouy after the German retreat and the occupation of the battery by the English, the sabotage of guns by a group of German combat divers to avoid the English use of the guns. Abandoned intact according to my source and was able still to shell Le Havre.

A frogman of M.E.K. 60.
M.E.K. = MEERSKÄMPFER.
MEERSKÄMPFER
= Sea Fighter. — A frogman of M.E.K. 60. M.E.K. = MEERSKÄMPFER. MEERSKÄMPFER = Sea Fighter.

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Ah the horses, whenever I have visited these guardians of the bunkers have kept me at bay.

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