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StP209 Port des Flamands

The old port of Flamands

StP209 Port des Flamands

The old port of Flamands with a newer larger port added later with the large Fort Flamands protecting the area in earlier times. A new road has cut through this area and all the sea around Fort Flamands has been filled in and starting to be built over.

Allied reconnaissance photo

Red fort Flamands and yellow the outer Port Flamands today.

StP209 Port des Flamands

2 x R612 casemates.

1 x R501 group bunker.

1 x R134 ammunition bunker.

2 x 7.5cm F.K. guns.

Road block.

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StP209 Port des Flamands

Looking down the road and over the lock at the remaining R612 casemate facing straight out to sea. To the left a small French Fort. Just this side of the bridge is a road block made of two concrete blocks set into the ground and heavy chains or steel cables would have been strung between them.

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Another way of blocking the road, was to push one or two Belgian Gates and tying them in.

StP209 Port des Flamands

CHERBOURG: PORT DES FLAMANDS Light Coastal Battery In. Serv. Target No:9/J/351. Ref Map: GSGS 4250/6E1/1741245 Geo. Co. : 49° 39' 11" N. 01° 35' 45" W. Height above sea level: 7meters. Two ?75mm (2.95in) guns. Range 10,300yds. Weight of shell 13lb. Rate of fire 8 - 10 r.p.m. Guns mounted in casemate, Number 1 - 29ftx32ft., Number 2 - 26ftx29ft. 125yds apart. Both casemates are earthed over, except at the face & rear entrance. Accommodation: Concrete shelters, and huts. Observation post: Unlocated Secondary Armament: Two light AA guns.

DEFE 2/375 Battery photos Cher. to Honf.

StP209 Port des Flamands

The concrete road block posts, these have now been removed.

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Hooks set into the concrete block.

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Another means of tying the gates to a post.

StP209 Port des Flamands

Looking back towards Tourlaville.

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The remaining R612 casemate for a field Kannon mounted on its wheels, just pushed in through the back door and fired out through the embrasure at the front..

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R612 embrasure with a wooden door to keep out the weather.

StP209 Port des Flamands

200mm Rost.

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Extractor fan to remove foul gases out of the gun room when the gun fires. Blowing fumes out of the Rost.

StP209 Port des Flamands

The face has been covered in earth and the new road runs past it.

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This R612 had no flanking wall but the second did.

The flanking wall covered the embrasure from a direct hit from seaward.

StP209 Port des Flamands

R134 ammunition casemate.

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R134 ammunition bunker. A covered passage way with two ammunition rooms.

StP209 Port des Flamands

R501 group bunker.

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StP209 Port des Flamands

R501 with a post war French radar instillation on the roof.

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In this 1973 photo you can see the shadow of a radar on the roof of the building.

StP209 Port des Flamands

R501 with a post war French radar instillation on the roof.

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StP209 Port des Flamands

Outer bassin.

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StP209 Port des Flamands

Another 1944 air photo of the StP showing a fuel tank farm next door and the inner and outer bassin, also note the fields behind. Today its all housing.

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StP209 Port des Flamands

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