StP107 'Neuss' M.K.B. 'Lindemann' FCP

MKB · K.V.Gruppe Calais · AOK 15 Nord Pas de Calais · France

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Batterie Lindemann was a massive complex with not only three huge S262 casemates for a 40.6cm gun but a FCP (Fire Control Post) S100 type which we are more interested here as the batterie site has been covered over by the slurry from the making of the Channel Tunnel. In March 1942 the guns & equipment of Battery “Schleswig-Holstein” brought to Sangatte to make a three gun batterie. The range of the batterie was 42.8km (26mls.) with a standard shell 1030 kg, or 56 km (35 mls.) with the special 600 kg (1,300 lb) long range shell called the Adolf-shell.

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

6 M.A.A. 244. 1 x S100 FCP. This is what is being covered here. The full site: - 1 x S174 ammunition depot for a 38/40.6cm batterie. 1 x R118b dressing station. 1 x M151 Quarters. 3 x S262 casemates. 1 x R658 water (Wasser) supply bunker. 30 x Vf58c Tobruk´s. 1 x SK/Beobachtungstand, (observatory). 1 x Wellblech + Beobachtungzimmer, (observation room). 1 x V229 radar plinth. 2 x 5cm KwK L42 Ringstand's. 2 x Vf Unterstand. 3 x 40.6cm S.K.C./34 guns. 3 x 4cm Flak 28 Bofors. 3 x 2cm Flak 28. 2 x 7.62cm F.K.30(r). 1 x Würzburg See Riese Fu.MO214 radar.

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Here we have just driven up this track as far as the FCP position on the left.

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Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann captain of Bismark.

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

The entrance t the batterie in 1944 with hundreds of Belgian Gates linked together as an anti-tank defence.

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A sign on the barbed wire here Beware Electric Fence.

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

A page from WO 196/27 file showing a plan of the area.

WO 196/27

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

No.541 Squadron was a photographic reconnaissance unit with Supermarine Spitfire XI aircraft.

541 Sqn. 3 November 1943

Cameras being fitted at RAF Benson in Oxford.

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Plan of 6 Marine Kusten Batterie Lindemann. 6 Marineartillerieabteilung 244 (MAA 244). The three gun casemates in yellow and the small red dots are the 30 Vf58c Tobruk´s behind the wire and minefield defence. Fregattenkapitän M.A. der Reserve Heinrich Garde from May 1943 to the end. 318 men (4 officers/ 34 NCO´s /280 men) 1st Company of Reserveinfanterieregiment 26. 6th Company/West (Flottillenstammabteilung West): 118.

WO 195/8819

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

541 Sqn. 3 November 1943 close up of the S100 area.

WO 195/8819 541 Sqn. 3 November 1943

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Plan of the defences of the Calais west positions.

German Army map of the area

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Plan of the S100 FCP on two levels.

WO 196/27 Drawing D.F.W.S. No.20 - Director of Fortification & Works

Loading a piece of machinery into this S100 when it was built.

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

No idea what this is or was, made of Formstein Concrete blocks, cemented together built both sides of the steel reinforcement and then concrete is poured.

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Formstein blocks and steel reinforcement.

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Formstein concrete blocks.

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Searchlight emplacement. There were also two 2cm Flak 28 guns either side (not found).

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

The small square is the where a man could stand and look out of the three glass windows.

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

In front of the Range finder was a steel viewing cupola with three slots and a steel hooded periscope.

WO 196/27

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Armoured cupola of the guns direction finder. Zies 10m range finder “Lange Stereo-Entfermungsmesser”

WO 196/27

Camouflage being painted onto the main guns.

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Range finder hold fast ring where the steel armoured cupola would have sat.

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Behind the rangefinder is a socket V229 for a Würzburg See Riese Fu.MO214. A navalised version of the Luftwaffe´s radar, used to locate ship targets out at sea and aircraft. The radar was probably shot out before the Canadian Army attacked the area.

WO 196/27

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

V229 plinth for a Würzburg See Riese Fu.MO214.

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

Würzburg See Riese Fu.MO214. After capture these photos were taken. The dish has been blown off and cannot be seen. The cabin on the back housed all the controls and screens. The Würzburg could rotate 360° and the dish could look up and down.

WO 196/27

StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

V229 plinth for a Würzburg See Riese Fu.MO214. Still has its earth strip for lightening.

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

V229 plinth for a Würzburg See Riese Fu.MO214. Looking inside the plinth, often there are cables and cable ducts that can be seen.

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StP107 Neuss M.K.B. Lindemann FCP

An Allied Rhubarb target. Rhubarb Target: - Fighter or fighter- bomber sections, at times of low cloud and poor visibility, crossing the English Channel and then dropping below cloud level to search for opportunity targets such as railway locomotives and rolling stock, aircraft on the ground, enemy troops, and vehicles on roads. (and radars).

AIR 40/1668