StP234 Bat Hamburg T4

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StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

Here we are covering Turm 4 of 4.

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

Plan of the batterie site of StP234 Batterie 'Hamburg' 3./M.A.A.260.

from Frederic Clot

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

Head Quarters were in the Wn248 Château de Tourlaville. Kapitänleutnant M.A. Karl Weise (Dec 1943 - Jun 1944).

Head Quarters were in the Wn248 Château de Tourlaville. Kapitänleutnant M.A. Karl Weise (Dec 1943 - Jun 1944). How it looks today.

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

T4 taken in 1950 by the Air Engineers Installation Division to show the effects of bombing.

Signals Corps No. SC 191501

Signals Corps No. SC 191501

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

T4 - a set of Tobruk defences out in the front of the emplacement, some tunnels connecting them and trenches. A 7.5cm F.K.235(f) that could be used as defence or throwing up star shells if needed. A 2cm Flak AA gun. A munitions bunker. The * are I believe the sites of explosions, either bomb, artillery or ships guns, or just areas that the ammunition was exploded by American Engineers post campaign.

based on F. Clot with permission

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

Plan of T4 Geschützstellung or open emplacement, showing the gun ring with a 360° turn and then two walls either sides (like horns) and an ammunition room behind. When built in full it would then have had a concrete and steel lid put over the top, making it a casemate and only able to fire forward. When we visited in 2000 it was very hard to find and access was very difficult, houses and gardens are built very close to it.

Plan T4

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

Elevation plans of the casemate when it would have been completed.

Steel supports on Turm 2 that would have had a concrete lid placed over the top.

Elevation plans of the ammunition store this part completed but I believe destroyed by either bombing, shelling or after action, the use of blowing up all the remaining ammunition?.
A 2cm Flak was mounter onto the roof of this building.

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

As you can see or not as the case maybe, this was hard in 2000 to find and get to.

02 January 2000

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

1958 and you can see the 'Horn' walls damaged but still there, the rear E shaped ammunition storage has not been built yet and the long ammunition room has been destroyed. The Flak emplacement shows up very well.

ignf 1958

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

Getting closer and the camouflage starts to show up.

02 January 2000

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

24cm S.K. L/40. This picture may have been here or was taken earlier when the batterie was at the Island of Norderney, Germany.

Signals Corps

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

Geschützstellung or open emplacement, showing the gun ring with a 360° turn and the two side walls built. No E shaped ammunition room at the back.

02 May 2004

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

The pivot or hold fast mounting that the gun swivels on. A large steel frame set into the concrete of the emplacements base. All now removed and scrapped.

US Army Signals Corps, Nicholas Rudziak.(Thank you to Jim Swan)

StP234 Batterie Hamburg T4

US Army Signals Corps, Nicholas Rudziak.(Thank you to Jim Swan)